Monthly Archives: December, 2022

There's a trick question that investors almost always ask, and it's guaranteed to make founders uncomfortable: "What are your valuation expectations?"

ESG investing brings together the worlds of financial markets and environmental sustainability. According to Deloitte, ESG assets are expected to account for half of all professionally managed assets globally by 2024.

Startups across Europe are on track to raise $85.000 billion in funding this year, a $15.000 billion drop from 2021 levels when funding topped $100.000 billion, according to a report on the state of European technology.

Detailing the investment portfolio of Alameda Research, the investment arm of defunct crypto exchange FTX, one wonders how they had time to do more than invest given the sheer number of transactions. Maybe that was part of the problem.

In theory, blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin will allow anyone to download and analyze their entire transaction history. That said, accessing, tabulating, and making sense of all this data is not a straightforward process. For starters, the volume of data is huge. In addition, the data is made up of somewhat inscrutable alphanumeric keys, hashes, and other "metadata" that identify individual wallets, addresses, and transactions.

For Jae Lee, a data scientist by training, it never made sense that video - which has become a huge part of our lives, with the rise of platforms like TikTok, Vimeo and YouTube - would be difficult to find due to the technical barriers posed by understanding the context. Searching for video titles, descriptions, and tags was always fairly easy and required no more than a basic algorithm, but searching within videos for specific moments and scenes was well beyond the capabilities of the technology, particularly if those moments and scenes were not labeled in an obvious way.

This decade shows signs of becoming one of the most challenging times to grow a business as pressure increases on sales teams to serve as the lifeblood of organizations.

Loft Dynamics is a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from US venture capital (VC) firms, including David Sacks' Craft Ventures , Sky Dayton and Up Ventures.