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Alliance Partners
Friday, November 29, 2024
HCLTECH and BSI Learning forge a strategic partnership
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Looking to leave corporate and join the land of the entrepreneur?
There are 3 things that will make your venture a success
- you are solving a real problem - not just by providing a vitamin - but by providing a painkiller 💊!
- your venture is about serving others
- you know exactly why your solution stands out. You have a clear point of difference !
So, If you are looking to build a startup - ask yourself these 3 questions—
1. What problem are you willing to spend your time solving?
2. Why does solving this problem matter to you personally?
3. Why can’t people live without your solution? Is it a painkiller, vitamin or just a placebo?
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
academyEX acquired a strategic stake in BSI Learning
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Business Rule #1
Remember, you can only sell what people actually want.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
VC backs cuttable with $5.5m based on people with deep experience who’ve done it before!
Cofounders Sam Kroonenburg, Jack White and Ed Ring have raised $5.5m for their AI-powered adtech startup Cuttable
Seed funding round led by Paul Bassat’s Square Peg and supported by Taryn Pieterse at Rampersand and other strategic angel investors .
Backing people with strong expertise who’ve done it before!
Sam Kroonenburg co-founded A Cloud Guru - an online learning business, and went on to sell it for more than $2 billion in 2021,
Jack, Sam and Adam all have deep experience in tech and advertising and a strong track record of creating cutting-edge solutions”.
Paul Bassett of Square Peg has joined the board
What Cuttable does
Cuttable is a “first-of-its-kind automated content agency” that aims to support marketers and agencies marry creative advertising with AI to create high-quality digital ads at scale.
Curable enables the automation of the creative with AI - enhancing creativity, optimising ad performance and streamlines the production process - enabling more messages, more personalisation and more targeting –
Customers
Imagine having the ability to translate a marketing brief into a live ad within a few clicks!!
Cuttable is already working with Woolworths-owned brand Catch.com.au, and OnePass, and counts the likes of Medibank, Nando’s, Penfolds, Powershop, and DiDi among its clients.
Star trek Comment by Kroonenburg
“It’s about doing what was once impossible, - creating a new frontier in advertising, where technology and creativity converge to deliver unparalleled results for marketers and agencies”.
Thanks Eloise Keating from Smartcompany for the heads up
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
From zero to $2.5 billion in 20 years.
It was 20 years ago when Luke Anear started SafetyCulture in his garage in Townsville and is now stepping down as CEO as it looks to list, after raising $165m in September last year!
What Safetyculture does
After numerous jobs Luke saw the l impact workplace incidents had on businesses and their employees, and built a simple checklist app for workplace inspections to help reduce hazards and accidents.
SafetyCulture has since grown into an all-in-one workplace operations platform, serving nearly 2 million customers globally and targeting 100 million users by 2032.
Its software is predominantly used by frontline workers across construction, manufacturing, hospitality and retail.
Luke will remain SafetyCulture’s largest shareholder and owns just under a quarter of the company.
Luke’s huge shows will be filled by Kelly Vohs, who will be based in the USA ahead of a listing!
Support by the greats
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht , Blackbird partner Rick Baker , Atlassian Scott Farquhar and Kell Reilly of Airtree are among Luke’s inner circle.
The Safety Culture Growth Path
SafetyCulture has doubled in size in the last 2 years - having 85,000 businesses and close to 2 million users around the world using its platform!! Luke believes that Kelly has what it takes to get to 100m users
Another game changer - started in Australia
See more https://bsivc.blogspot.com/2024/09/safetyculture-hits-home-run-with-airtree.html
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Mesoblast is looking to get FDA approval for Ryonci!
Cell therapy company Mesoblast (ASX:MSB) has entered into a convertible note subscription agreement with its largest shareholder, Gregory George, to issue up to US$50 million convertible notes at its discretion.
The issue of the convertible notes is linked to the US
FDA's approval of Mesoblast's lead product candidate, Ryonci (remestemcel-L), for the treatment of children with steroid-refractory acute graft versus host disease (SR-aGHD).
The company said the funding will enable it to implement its go-to-market commercial strategy.It said it expects a decision before or on the FDA's Prescription Drug User Fee Act goal date of 7 January, 2025.
Mesoblast chief executive Silviu Itescu said: "We appreciate the ongoing support from our major shareholder in ensuring that the Company is well capitalised for commercial product launch and can hit the ground running immediately following approval of RYONCIL by FDA."
Mesoblast chief executive Silviu Itescu said: "We appreciate the ongoing support from our major shareholder in ensuring that the Company is well capitalised for commercial product launch and can hit the ground running immediately following approval of RYONCIL by FDA."
Mesoblast said its go-to-market strategy includes hiring senior executives, market access, medical education, and ongoing engagement with key opinion leaders.