Here’s what to know to raise a Series A right nowThere is good news and just “OK” news.
The good news is that the venture capital market is showing signs of stabilizing.
Today, Jesse Randall, the founder of the platform Sweater Ventures, said founders should start looking to raise a Series A when they have about 12 to 15 months of cash runway left.
“Don’t wait any longer than that,” he told TechCrunch+.
“In this market, you have to prep for an A way in advance,” Feinzaig told TechCrunch+, adding that it could be fruitful to do so right after closing a seed round.
Here’s what to know to raise a Series A right nowThere is good news and just “OK” news.
The good news is that the venture capital market is showing signs of stabilizing.
Today, Jesse Randall, the founder of the platform Sweater Ventures, said founders should start looking to raise a Series A when they have about 12 to 15 months of cash runway left.
“Don’t wait any longer than that,” he told TechCrunch+.
“In this market, you have to prep for an A way in advance,” Feinzaig told TechCrunch+, adding that it could be fruitful to do so right after closing a seed round.
Here’s what to know to raise a Series A right nowThere is good news and just “OK” news.
The good news is that the venture capital market is showing signs of stabilizing.
Today, Jesse Randall, the founder of the platform Sweater Ventures, said founders should start looking to raise a Series A when they have about 12 to 15 months of cash runway left.
“Don’t wait any longer than that,” he told TechCrunch+.
“In this market, you have to prep for an A way in advance,” Feinzaig told TechCrunch+, adding that it could be fruitful to do so right after closing a seed round.
It took Oura (pictured above) to show the world that the ring is a viable health tracking form factor.
The company concluded today’s Galaxy S24 Unpacked event by announcing the Samsung Galaxy Ring.
Meet the Galaxy Ring, with AI technology is empowering us to stay connected, unleash our creativity and build healthier habits all in more meaningful ways.
We know it’s called the Galaxy Ring.
Of course, while company, the form factor does have its feature limitations owing to a small size.
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Wandering around the CES preview events, it’s clear that AI and other smart tech is coming to toasters, grills and all sorts of other devices.
“We can cook a one-inch ribeye steak in about 1 minute and 45 seconds” says Jordan Aspley, the company’s founder.
Wave, baby, waveAnother device shown off at CES 2024 is the “Macrowave” from Revolution Cooking.
The instructions are, you know, defrost in your microwave, preheat your oven, take it out of the microwave, put it in your oven.
One example is Spark One — the $1,100 smart grill we featured in our 2020 gift guide — which went out of business by 2022.
I don’t know that anyone expected such a massive deal to simply skate past regulators — particularly with all of the heat Amazon has received for privacy concerns and noncompetitive practices over the last decade.
At the same time, I don’t think too many of us assumed that we would be barreling into 2024 with this big, open question mark.
The deal has already been greenlit by a number of governmental bodies, but the process has felt drawn out at every step.
If you’re a regular Actuator reader, you likely already know my feelings about outside scrutiny of business practices (I’m generally pro), but I expected something definitive by now.
Amazon will be just fine, of course, but I can’t imagine this waiting game has been easy on iRobot, which underwent two rounds of layoffs in mid-2022 and early 2023.
Labrys is perhaps best described as Slack-meets-location-meets-payments for both military and humanitarian scenarios.
From 2015 onwards, when I founded the Techfugees non-profit, we found that both refugees and humanitarian workers almost always used WhatsApp to coordinate a response.
The Labrys platform, Axiom C2 and Axiom Communicator, allows for KYC/E verification, encrypted communications, task management, where individual users can be geo-located.
Meanwhile, Premise Data, which has raised $146 million, has a software platform for humanitarian organizations, and provides analytics about assets on the ground.
Plus, ‘dual use’ products that coordinate either civilian or military teams, is a growing market.
As the SEC’s new data breach disclosure rules take effect, here’s what you need to know The controversial regulation represents a major shake-up for U.S. organizationsStarting from today, December 18, publicly-owned companies operating in the U.S. must comply with a new set of rules requiring them to disclose “material” cyber incidents within 96 hours.
In an 8-K filing, breached organizations must describe the incident’s nature, scope, timing, and material impact, including financial and operational.
In addition to the SEC’s new data breach disclosure rules, the regulator has also added a new line item called Item 106 to the Regulation S-K that will be included on a company’s annual Form 10-K filing.
In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Sullivan said he welcomed the SEC’s data breach reporting rules, saying: “We can nitpick the details as much as we want, but this is the right way to do it,” he said.
Until now, many organizations have taken months to report a breach and only did so after they had completed their investigation.
