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Energysquare, a French wireless charging company, raised €3M in funding.

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate their development in Asia and the United States.

Led by Timothée Le Quesne, CEO, Energysquare is creating a new generation of wireless chargers that will allow people to charge multiple devices at the same speed as classic chargers.

Its Power by Contact is a wireless charging technology comprised of advanced microelectronics and algorithms that allow users to charge all their devices simultaneously on a single surface, at maximum speed, without electromagnetic waves.

Prior to this financing round, the company signed a technological partnership with Lenovo, to explore integration into their new laptop models. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591956063.6802616/Energysquare-Raises-€3M-in-Funding?ref=audio_experience

French startup Mediarithmics, a data marketing platform present in 16 European countries and the US, has snapped up €8 million.

The funds from existing investors Jaïna Capital and Ventech, and new investors Alliance Entreprendre and Adelie Capital, will be used to take their technology to the UK market, and across more of Europe.

Founded in 2013, Mediarithmics is an end-to-end data marketing platform that allows brands to easily launch personalised, cross-channel marketing campaigns in real time using programmatic technologies.

Fully compliant with the new European Data legislation, mediarithmics also enables publishers and e-commerce sites to protect, structure and leverage the value of their Data, helping them to create new profitable business models.

Stéphane Dugelay, Mediarithmics founder and CEO, commented: “mediarithmics was launched in 2013 to create an agile, scalable data marketing solution. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591955168.5088675/Paris-based-Mediarithmics-lands-€8-million-to-take-its-data-marketing-platform-to-the-UK?ref=audio_experience

In his latest book, How Design Makes The World, Scott Berkun discusses how we can all use the power of good design to think more critically about everything we make and use.

Once you commit to good design and start thinking clearly, another layer of questions is always revealed.

Good questions lead to more good questions, just as good thinking leads to more good thinking.

Buy the BookIn addition to How Design Makes The World today, Scott is the author of seven other books including The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker and The Year Without Pants.

Buy How Design Makes The World today! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591954275.7236035/How-Design-Makes-the-World-by-Scott-Berkun?ref=audio_experience

Byta, the music sharing service for pre-releases and other use-cases where there is a need to share sound files privately, has picked up around $1.4 million in seed funding.

Launched as an MVP in 2015, today Byta describes itself as “the platform for music before it’s on streaming services”.

Byta enables anyone in the music ecosystem to send and receive digital music in a clean, simple and secure way, on desktop and on mobile”.

“Byta is music’s first vertical SaaS, meaning our market is the whole music ecosystem,” he says.

Byta is the only platform which takes advantage of audio files unique properties: embedded metadata, audio quality and streamability”. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591947977.9620073/Byta,-the-private-music-sharing-service-for-pre-releases-and-more,-raises-seed-round-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

IT major Wipro on Thursday said its investment arm has invested in cybersecurity firm CloudKnox Security.

The investment has been made by Wipro Ventures, but the amount invested has not been disclosed.

Wipro Building (Image Credit:technologyforyou.org)"Wipro Ventures - the corporate investment arm of Wipro - invested in CloudKnox through its recently announced $150 million Fund II, to strengthen the strategic partnership," it added.

"With this partnership, Wipro has a first-mover advantage, offering Identity Governance and secure Cloud Workloads for customers who are migrating and managing Hybrid Cloud infrastructures," Mehta said.

The investment expands Wipro's cloud security portfolio to meet growing demand from enterprises to protect their cloud infrastructure from identities with excessive high risk permissions, the statement said. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591941607.827261/[Funding-alert]-Wipro-Ventures-invests-in-cybersecurity-firm-CloudKnox-Security?ref=audio_experience

Read this post to learn trending ecommerce merchandising strategies to drive conversions.

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Improve Your Search FunctionAnother ecommerce merchandising strategy worth implementing is to improve your search function.

If you want to boost your online sales, you need to use the top e-commerce merchandising strategies.

Use these trending ecommerce merchandising tactics to drive conversions. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591939812.7918146/The-Startup-Magazine-5-Trending-Ecommerce-Merchandising-Strategies-To-Drive-Conversions?ref=audio_experience

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And enterprising young people can certainly start their own businesses while being students.

There are hundreds of tips on how to start a business while in college.

Let’s discuss why it’s important for a college student to start a business.

It doesn’t matter what a business student is going to do.

Some students started by providing paper writing help to their classmates, and then, grew it into a full-time business. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591937114.6089659/Why-Should-Students-Try-to-Start-a-Business??ref=audio_experience

As such, the survey revealed that the larger the organisation, the more likely they are to continue to hold remote meetings over face-to-face meetings.

Tom Young, UdrewRegarding the improvements with remote meetings, Tom says that much of the points included in the study (such as ‘Meetings could be shorter in length’ and ‘Meetings need to be more structured and productive’) not only apply to remove meetings but also equally to face-to-face meetings.

“I think face-to-face meetings will still be required especially at the start of a relationship.

Our intention as a business is to travel to start relationships but then try and replace face-to-face meetings with Teams/Zoom calls.” Tim told Startup News.

Tim Hyde, Swan SystemsTim also agrees that many of the points brought up to improve remote meetings will also apply to face-to-face meetings. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591933536.9172878/Face-to-face-meetings-will-decline-post-COVID?ref=audio_experience

Online Shopping Has IncreasedWith people stuck at home and some switching to online ordering/delivery for essentials, online retail sales grew 74 percent in March compared to in 2019.

Their business model exists in the eCommerce space and they were equipped to serve customers through this channel.

Smaller eCommerce shops filled in this void left by Amazon and other big eCommerce businesses to meet that demand.

Building a Website That Won’t Frustrate Your CustomersIf you’ve already built an eCommerce website or decided that it’s time to, make sure the experience won’t cause frustration to your customers.

A strong eCommerce website has several elements that can improve your sales numbers. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591932642.6274948/Why-eCommerce-is-More-Important-Than-Ever-Before?ref=audio_experience