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Here are all 20 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s latest Demo Day

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Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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How to avoid AI commoditization: 3 tactics for running successful pilot programs

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The real moat is a combination of AI models trained on proprietary data, as well as a deep understanding of how an expert goes about their daily tasks to solve nuanced workflow problems. In highly-regulated industries where outcomes have real-world implications, data storage must pass a high bar of compliance checks.

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Here are the 23 companies pitching at Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day XXVIII today

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Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. The first programs will be launched in Canada, Japan and Korea. It’s that time again! This latest cohort comes in at 23 companies.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

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It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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IBM reorganizes partner program to incentivize indirect sales

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IBM is reorganizing its partner program in a bid to serve clients through partners with the same level of expertise as it does directly. The new program, Partner Plus, covers IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI activities. Agrawal said IBM’s partnership program changes fit in with the way enterprises are buying services.

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Draper Startup House launches first accelerator program, choosing Austin as its home

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It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022. As part of the program, DSH will invest up to $100,000 in pre-seed startups. .

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Alchemist Accelerator announces new leadership alongside its latest class of companies

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Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. Ian Bergman, previously global managing director for Microsoft’s “Microsoft for Startups” program before joining Alchemist in early 2021, will now head up AlchemistX.