Vimeo’s new suite of video tools geared toward small businesses harnesses the power of AI for less than your monthly internet fee.

Vimeo Create is available across iOS, Android mobile apps and the web so SMBs can focus on high impact social videos.

And it’s easy to see why Vimeo Create is impressive.

Anjali Sud, CEO, Vimeo, highlighted how Vimeo Create takes those issues on.

Vimeo Create levels the playing field. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583175606.4707966/Vimeo-Create-is-a-New-AI-powered-Suite-Geared-to-SMBs?ref=audio_experience

AzzurroDigitale, the Padua, Italy-based provider of a platform optimizing the workforce management in production and logistc plants, raised €1m in funding.

Backers included Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos, Alessandro Rimassa, and Francesco Beraldi.

Co-founded in 2015 by Carlo Pasqualetto, Jacopo Pertile and Antonio Fornari, who have participated in the round, as well, AzzurroDigitale is launching Awms, a SaaS based, AI-ML powered platform which allows users to optimize the workforce management in production and logistc plants.

The software allows users to abandon traditional systems and enable data and info to flow into a unique channel in real time.

The system has already been used by De’Longhi, among other manufacturing companies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583173809.2689056/AzzurroDigitale-Raises-€1M-in-Funding?ref=audio_experience

How to draw up a business plan for a restaurant: key elementsFor the purposes of this article, we’re going to use a fictional establishment – let’s call it The Goodfare Restaurant – to show you exactly how a restaurant business plan should work in practice.

You can find a more comprehensive breakdown of what to include in a generic business plan here.

Executive summaryThis is a brief snapshot of the key information the reader needs to know about The Goodfare Restaurant.

The restaurant – The Goodfare Restaurant is a 100-seat family eatery in North London, serving moderately-priced comfort food classicsThe Goodfare Restaurant is a 100-seat family eatery in North London, serving moderately-priced comfort food classics Your mission statement – The Goodfare Restaurant exists to bring hearty, reasonably-priced grub to the masses– The Goodfare Restaurant exists to bring hearty, reasonably-priced grub to the masses Objective(s) – to be the most popular moderately-priced eatery in North London– to be the most popular moderately-priced eatery in North London Values – the customer is almost always rightThe companyThis section should go into detail about the management team, the legal structure of the business, and operations.

The industry – over the last two years, London’s restaurant industry has seen the highest level of closures in decades, as well as very high staff turnover. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583172006.1395574/How-to-create-a-restaurant-business-plan?ref=audio_experience

Primmune Therapeutics, a San Diego, CA-based company that develops small molecule, orally administered toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists as immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases, raised $7m in seed financing.

Investors included CAM Capital, Charlie McDermott, BioBrit, and BioRock Ventures.

In conjunction with the financing, Scott Morenstein, Managing Director at CAM Capital will join the board.

The company intends to use the funds for the development of novel orally-administered, small molecule toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists for long-term systemic activation of innate immunity.

Primmune is being led by an experienced and dedicated team, which includes:– Charlie McDermott, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer– James Appleman, Ph.D., Co-founder, Board Member, SVP, R&D and CSO– Paulo Rangel, President, Co-founder, Board Member, Chief Business Officer– Stephen Webber, Ph.D., Co-founder and SVP Medicinal Chemistry– Todd Harris, Ph.D., Board Member, CEO of Tyra BiosciencesFinSMEs02/03/2020 | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583170212.033369/Primmune-Therapeutics-Raises-$7M-in-Seed-Financing?ref=audio_experience

DeepSig, an Arlington, VA-based company developing AI to transform wireless for 5G, IoT, and security, raised $5M in Series A financing.

The round, which added to the $3.5M previously raised, was led by Leawood Venture Capital with participation from Scout Ventures, Blu Venture Investors, and Lockheed Martin Ventures.

Led by Jim Shea, CEO, DeepSig develops deep learning software on Cloud, Edge, and embedded devices.

Their OmniSIG™ product provides visibility into wireless spectrum activity to find interference, wireless/cyber threats, and anomalies.

OmniPHY™ replaces key conventional baseband signal processing technology with machine learning to improve system performance. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583168412.8509192/DeepSig-Raises-$5M-in-Series-A-Financing?ref=audio_experience

0 Shares EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInFull-stack quantum computing company Rigetti Computing is on the fundraising trail, according to an SEC filing submitted by the company on Friday.

Subscribe to the Crunchbase DailyAccording to the filing, the company has raised a little over $71 million of a round aiming to raise up to $83.85 million in fresh capital for the company.

Rigetti Computing disclosed in its filing that the total amount raised and the total offering amount includes approximately $23.85 million1 from the conversion of convertible securities into equity in the company.

According to Crunchbase data, the company has raised nearly $120 million in prior funding.

Previously disclosed investors include the likes of Streamlined Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DCVC, Vy Capital, Lux Capital and Y Combinator, among others. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583166608.7165809/Quantum-Shop-Rigetti-Computing-Has-Raised-Over-$71M-In-New-Funding,-Per-SEC-Filing?ref=audio_experience

The Punjab government is also looking to reimburse various duties as wellWith the aim to support entrepreneurship in Punjab, the state government has announced setting up of an INR 100 Cr startup fund for startups in the state.

Further, to promote innovations in the agritech space, the Punjab government has also launched a startup incubator Kalkat Bhawan.

As part of these programmes, the Punjab government is also looking to reimburse various fees for startups as well.

According to Badal, Punjab is ready to drive on the next leg of growth by leveraging technology into agricultural operations.

Initially, the fund will invest INR 25 Cr and upon its utilisation, the government will release the next INR 25 Cr and so on. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583164868.6124294/Punjab-Govt-Sets-Up-INR-100-Cr-Fund,-Incubator-To-Promote-Startups?ref=audio_experience

Less than $500M raised in February!

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New York during the month of February 2020.

I have included some additional information such as industry, description, round type, total equity funding raised to further the analysis for the state of venture capital in NYC.

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With its regional media properties, AlleyWatch serves as the highway for technology and entrepreneurship. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583163295.2858374/The-9-Largest-NYC-Tech-Startup-Funding-Rounds-of-February-2020?ref=audio_experience

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.

(Here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton, going over the huge Roblox round and what is going on with no-code startups.)

The markets aren’t doing well, coronavirus is a worry, and we have a cool early-stage round to talk about.

This week will see a few sets of earnings that we care about some (JD.com), less, (HPE), and lots (Zoom).

BrizaNext, we talked about Briza, a very neat early-stage startup that is working in the commercial insurance API space. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583161347.2984746/Equity-Monday:-Surprise-IPOs,-Briza’s-$3M-round,-and-are-we-worried-about-unicorn-liquidity?-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Bengaluru-based edtech startup ODA Class, on Monday (March 2), announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in its Pre-Series A round led by China’s Yuanfudao.

Founded by Saurabh Malhotra, ODA Class is an online platform which connects students with teachers.

ODA Class offers learning programmes for students in classes VI-XII along with courses to help students prepare for competitive exams like JEE, and NEET.

“Yuanfudao’s support will help ODA Class capture a considerable amount of market share by the end of 2020,” Srivastav added.

Similar to ODA Class, Vedantu also uses technology to bring together teachers and students on a single platform to enable live learning between them. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583159541.902874/ODA-Class-Bags-Funding-To-Bring-Students,-Teachers-Closer?ref=audio_experience