N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. It demands a culture where every team member collaborates to innovate and prioritize enhancements. Moreover, we emphasize the importance of leadership development in driving operational excellence.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. Have declines in the public-market valuations of biotech companies impacted your investments in the sector? Robert Mittendorff, M.D,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. ” So what, exactly, does Edda give those working in the private investment space?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Over time we’ve continuously optimized that process to ensure we are efficient in how we review deals and how soon we can give founders feedback. Firms that back a lot of startups are often criticized for not doing their due diligence and labeled lazy for using “spray and pray” tactics. Has this led to unrealistic valuations?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. After closing the book on 2022 this week, it is safe to say that this optimism was somewhat misguided. Image Credits: YL Ventures (opens in a new window).

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 1, 2022

Today, game development is one of the biggest industries in the world with thousands of developers creating games in every niche. By 2025, the game development market size is expected to reach over USD 250 billion. Virtual Assist aims to help you make the most of your development workflow. What is Game Development?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. “I do not believe the insurtech market to be dead, because it is still a multi-billion-dollar market,” Hélène Falchier, partner at Portage Ventures, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. This is because diversity increases revenue, boosts innovation, sparks creativity and leads to better decision-making. What are their cultural drivers? Rewiring the system.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Cloud is scalable IT infrastructure that enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes, support business growth, and minimize disruptions,” says Swati Shah, SVP and CIO of US markets at TransUnion, the Chicago-based IT services and consulting company. “It Too many CIOs think they can hire their way out of the problem.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When you looked at e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing or P2P payment seven years ago, it was always a fragmented market. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Effective engineering leadership lies at the heart of a premier academic institutions ability to differentiate itself in a competitive market. We find that high-impact academic leaders tend to have a distinguished scholarly record, a proven ability to attract research funding, and a track record of building successful faculty teams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

This meant new customers were, for example, using Placer’s tools for M&A due diligence, or to help determine interesting opportunities for investment. “We have long felt like the disruption Placer can bring is massive, but the market demand has far exceeded our initial expectations,” added Josh Buckley.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Forecasts have suggested that market dynamics are changing and that the private equity is poised to expand at an annualized growth rate of 12.8% While the sell-side of the private equity market struggles to reach operational maturity, the buy-side isnt insulated from market pressures either. to double in AUM from $5.8T

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

There is no authoritative playbook for marketing these days. Every company must find its own voice, and as it grows and evolves, its marketing needs to evolve as well. A growth marketing agency based in Amsterdam, this company focuses on LinkedIn marketing, content marketing, marketing automation and email marketing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the 4th and King Caltrain station, followed by a tiny office and then a slightly bigger one in the Flatiron building near Market Street.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We already have a senior team of venture partners who help us in origination and diligence. Akshat Dixit. Contributor.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

SAFe is particularly well-suited to complex projects that involve multiple large teams at the project, program, and portfolio levels. This accelerated feedback loop leads to higher engagement levels, increased productivity and job satisfaction, and improved work quality, as well as deliverables that reach the market faster.

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2022

With countless businesses searching for their niche, startups often find themselves in claustrophobic markets with competitors vying for the attention of customers, investors, and talent. Similarly, many startups may find it difficult to establish the industry connections necessary to find a market for their products.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

UL Solutions , part of the UL enterprise that grew out of Underwriters Laboratories, on Monday jumped into the crowded genAI third-party evaluation service market, joining Stanford University and Microsoft , among many others, but with a more customized approach. The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This is why the overall data and analytics (D&A) market is projected to grow astoundingly and expected to jump to $279.3 In a recent Gartner data and analytics trends report, author Ramke Ramakrishnan notes, “The power of AI and the increasing importance of GenAI are changing the way people work, teams collaborate, and processes operate.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. The unicorn, if not sourced with proper due diligence, will be viewed only as a creature in fairy tales. Why are they unicorns?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. “By investing locally, by developing the right ecosystem, we’re in a sense bringing Kendall Square to Main Street.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

IT leaders looking to accelerate their innovation agendas have a partner-in-waiting in the startup ecosystem. By linking up with startups, CIOs can greatly expand their opportunities to experiment with emerging technologies and augment their in-house innovation programs. But CIOs should remain strategic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 2: How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing. Part 3: Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Early-stage startup marketers must walk a fine line: Everyone is free to chime in on their work, and campaign budgets for pre-revenue companies are notoriously thin. Here’s who we talked to: Cam Sinclair, director/marketeer, Ammo. Here’s who we talked to: Cam Sinclair, director/marketeer, Ammo. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Database technology is fundamental infrastructure, which partially explains why it’s so resistant to innovation: Oracle Database was released in 1979, and MySQL didn’t reach the market until 1995. “The first is hiring a marketer too soon,” said Heskins. Thanks very much for reading! Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To build a stronger relationship with vendors, “CIOs should bring them into the fold regarding their priorities and potential concerns about what may —or may not — lie ahead, from a regulatory perspective or the general economic climate, for example,” says Kevin Beasley, CIO at VAI, a midmarket ERP software developer. “A

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CIO

APRIL 21, 2023

Proponents of early technology adoption further argue that it enables companies to build informal relationships with leading technology providers, develop deeper understanding of the latest technologies, and lure better talent. The company needs to have the innovation culture and appetite to invest money in the new technology.”

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

To address these challenges, the pharmaceutical firm developed Lilly Translate, a home-grown IT solution that uses natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to generate content translation via a validated API layer, Coleman says. The product was developed via a DevSecOps agile framework,” Coleman says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this session, you will hear from KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu on what is the outlook of the evolving crypto market and how to achieve better trading experience for cryptocurrency investors. Brought to you by Diligent Corporation. We present the 13 pioneering Korean companies that will enrich our lives with their innovative edge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

. “Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2022

Its weather-related services can be as simple as helping utilities predict short-term demand for energy, or as complex as advising maritime transporters on routing ocean-going cargo ships around developing storms. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Or, at least, that’s what Struck Capital is giving a whirl with a $15 million fund and a team of experienced company builders, in addition to its existing $220 million AUM funds, with LPs including Leo DiCaprio. The companies we were looking at have a lot of technical and operational debt, even if they had signs of product/market fit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex.

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