I’m excited to announce this businesskinda.com Live event. The Cambrian BioPharma startup is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Do not miss this businesskinda.com Live takes place May 3 at noon PDT. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical … Read more
ZEBOX, an international accelerator network founded by shipping conglomerate CMA CGM to bring more technology innovation to the supply chain industry, today announced the launch of its APAC headquarters. Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. The APAC hub is supported by Enterprise Singapore, … Read more
To get a roundup of businesskinda.com’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3PM PDT, register here. As Twitter continues its absolutely farcical march to its own demise, we grab the popcorn to watch the fires flare up. In other news: Happy Monday, folks! — Christine And Hey The businesskinda.com … Read more
Welcome to The Switch! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your trust. If you read this as a post on our site, please subscribe here so that you can receive it directly in the future. Every week I check out the latest fintech news from the past week. … Read more
DVDs replacing VHS were just the beginning “Usually the best way to find out if your crazy idea is any good is to just try it. So that’s what we did’, Mark Randolphco-founder and original CEO of Netflix, That crazy idea was to send a CD in the mail to find out if the concept … Read more
Photonics turns out to be a tough nut to crack The growing computing power power required to train advanced AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT may eventually hit a wall with mainstream chip technologies. In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found it that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used to train AI models doubled … Read more
Companies have spent jointly $61 billion in cloud infrastructure in Q4 2022, with more growth to come. Yet businesses are poorly protected against losses due to cloud downtime. “Cloud service providers typically offer service level agreements (SLAs) that outline their commitments to service availability and performance,” AV8 general partner Amir Kabir told businesskinda.com+. But while … Read more
Hello, and welcome back to Equitya podcast about the business of startups, where we unravel the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. This week we filmed Early Stage, businesskinda.com’s event for founders building startups from the ground up. Alas, our dear friend Natasha Mascarenhas got sick and we had to lean further Alex before delivery. … Read more
Largely because of their age, homes in Europe can be notoriously difficult to heat. Most were built for a time when knowledge about energy consumption was not as available as it is today. As energy becomes more expensive and energy security becomes a geopolitical issue, tech startups looking at this issue are on the rise. … Read more
Better data, a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data safe, announced today that it has raised $1.55 million. The seed round, which it said was oversubscribed, was led by Investible with participation from Franklin Templeton, Xcel Next, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Bon Auxilium, Tenity, Plug and Play and … Read more