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Here is this week’s edition of the Startup Monday Issue (Issue 38– 3 May 2021)

Sharing the following this week:

- The global Virtual Reality Market is expected to reach a market value of over US$ 56.2 Bn by 2027.

- A $1 billion crypto fund could be on its way from Andreessen Horowitz.

- Josh Richards, a 19-year-old TikTok influencer determined to be the world's first influencer billionaire. Richards is now focused on buying stakes in startups — and then making them popular with his 25 million TikTok followers.

- San Jose, California-based cybersecurity startup Vectra AI today announced it has raised $130 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion.

- CVS Health Corp. CVS, +0.04% said Thursday that it will launch CVS Health Ventures, a venture fund that invests in and partners with early-stage companies focused on making healthcare more accessible and affordable.

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Here is this week’s edition of the Startup Monday Issue (Issue 37–26 April 2021)

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- CoinSwitch Kuber, a startup that allows young users in India to invest in cryptocurrencies, said on Thursday it has raised $25 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its reach in India.

- U.S. House Passes Bill To Create First Crypto Task Force On Digital Assets.

- Bitcoin tumbled more than 4% on Friday after Turkey’s central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets for purchases citing possible “irreparable” damage and transaction risks.

- Cybersecurity startup Deep Instinct, an Israeli cybersecurity company that uses machine learning to predict, identify, and prevent cyberattacks, said Thursday it has raised $100 million in Series D funding

- Endeavour Vision has announced the closing of Endeavour Medtech Growth II (EMG II) LP at around €311 million in capital commitments.

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In this Episode of HyeTech Minds, I sit down with Aramayis Hovhannisyan, Founder of the Armenian-based startup Quality Testing Lab.

Founded in 2015, today Quality Testing Lab is the leading quality testing provider in Armenia, offering a full range of cost-effective software testing services to startups and long-established companies from different industries.

I spoke with Aramayis about his startup journey, how the idea for Quality Testing Lab came about, and why he decided to launch his own company. We also talked about the issues of quality testing and assurances for businesses, and benefits businesses can gain. there was also a conversation about the challenges and opportunities for the Armenian innovation ecosystem.

Aramayis is the Founder of the Armenian-based startup Quality Testing Lab. Aramayis is also the Chairman of the Armenian Board of Association for Software Testing (AST) which is an international non-profit professional organization with members in over 50 countries.

Links from the Founder and everything you ever wanted to know about Quality Testing Lab

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Here is this week’s edition of the Startup Monday Issue (Issue 36–19 April 2021)

Sharing the following this week:

- Despite a challenging year in the cannabis industry, venture investors poured over $2.3 billion into cannabis startups in 2019, up from $1.5 billion in 2018.

- Investors poured over $13 billion into just 56 AI startups in the first four months of 2021.

- Scale AI, a San Francisco-based startup that specializes in helping companies label and curate data for artificial intelligence applications, has been valued at $7.3 billion in its latest funding round, announced Tuesday.

- Investment into cybersecurity startups hit a record high of $7.8 billion in 2020, according to new data published last week by Crunchbase.

- SoftBank, one of the most influential tech investors plans to invest close to $1.2 billion in Indian startups in the first quarter of the current financial year.

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Here is this week’s edition of the Startup Monday Issue (Issue 35–12 April 2021) 

Sharing the following this week:

- Weekly VC Overview - Global funding last quarter hit an all-time high, marking the first single quarter to reach above $100 billion, according to Crunchbase data. In the first quarter of 2021, global venture investments reached $125 billion, a 50 percent increase quarter over quarter and a whopping 94 percent increase year over year.

- Global Blockchain Market - Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is considering going public through a direct listing in 2022, after seeing record trading volumes and new clients amid a surge in the price of bitcoin.

- Startups in Europe - The 2021 Forbes Under 30 Europe Social Impact list highlights Hellermark and 29 other up-and-coming superstars running purpose-driven companies. From reimagining education to fighting climate change, the Social Impact honorees are proof that the future is bright.

- Startups around the globe - Mexican used-car platform Kavak has reached a $4 billion valuation after raising $485 million in new funding.

- Israel Innovation - Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security, founded just this year, announced on Sunday that it secured $26 million in seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Team8, serial entrepreneur Zohar Zisapel

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76% percent of hiring managers admit attracting the right job candidates is their greatest challenge. They are wasting their time by going through tons of applications from candidates that are not actually a good fit for their open positions. The average length of the job interview process stands at about 27.5 days. 

This Armenian startup Cauldron transforms the job application process helping companies to eliminate long and inefficient screening processes and hire the best candidates in the shortest time. 

In this Episode, Vahan Melkonyan, Co-founder, CEO at Cauldron joins HyeTech Minds to discuss the future of the hiring process in today's technology-driven workforce.

Topics we talk about: 

- Vahan's startup journey! 

- Democratisation of the job searching process! 

-Using technology to eliminate bias in the hiring process! 

Resources 

For the transcript of this episode, go to https://hyetechminds.com/ 

To learn more about Cauldron, please visit new.cauldron.app 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cauldronapp Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cauldronapp 

To connect with Vahan via email [email protected] 

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Here is this week’s edition of the Startup Monday Issue (Issue 34–6 April 2021) Sharing the following this week:

- Weekly VC Overview - Venture capital has a diversity problem. According to the 2020 Crunchbase Diversity Spotlight Report, Black and Latinx founders received just 2.6% of overall funding in 2020

- Global Blockchain Market - People’s Bank of China and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority have begun ‘technical testing’ for cross-border use of the digital yuan.

- Startups in Europe - Some of Europe’s biggest tech companies are calling for a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) fund to kick-start the creation of regional champions in green technology, science-driven startups, and other new industries.

- Indian-Asian Startup Ecosystem Overview

- Trends in Israel Startup World

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Here is this week’s edition of The Startup Monday (Issue 33–29 March 2021) Sharing the following this week:

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"Audio is going to be the next medium. Everyone will use audio as a community communication between each other. Instead of text, photos, and videos. We are coming back to that part where audio is like mainstream," Artavazd Yeritsyan, CEO & Founder of Podcastle. 

In this Episode of HyeTech Minds, I sit down with Artavazd Yeritsyan, CEO & Founder of Podcastle. Podcastle is an AI and Machine Learning empowered software that converts text news/articles to a podcast in seconds.

Artavazd has been a VP of Engineering ta PicsArt- the #1 photo editing app and the first Armenian-based unicorn. Artavazg also is a member of the Forbes technology council. In 2020, during the war in Armenia, Artavazd was able successfully to launch his startup and in a very short period of time turned it into a successful business, raising 1.75million seed funds in just 4-5 months. 

Topics we talk about:

- Artavazd's startup journey!

- Secrets to the successful pitch strategy!

- Next big thing for podcasting?

-How to put Armenia on the international tech scene? 

Resources

For the transcript of this episode, go to https://hyetechminds.com/

To learn more about Podcastle, please visit https://podcastle.ai/

To connect with Artavazd visit his LinkedIn Page

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Here is this week’s edition of The Startup Monday! Sharing on the following this week:

- Weekly VC Overview

- What Are The Projections For Global Blockchain Market? 

- Indian-Asian Startup Ecosystem Overview

- Trends in Israel Startup World

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