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These 5 investors are betting on helping you live longer and better

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Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. Interest in the space seems to be growing rapidly in the VC community, so I spoke with five investors to get a better idea of where longevity tech is headed and just how big the market stands to become. It will be that fast.”

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Indian edtech Teachmint valued at $500 million in $78 million funding

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The market is estimated to generate $5 billion in revenue by 2025 (up from about $1 billion last year), according to analysts at Goldman Sachs. It also offers its ed-infra service to institutes and said over 4,000 such institutions in India and overseas are using it. We are thrilled to welcome onboard Rocketship.vc

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform

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Want a free Disrupt pass? Startups and VC It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous right now given that many later-stage companies that put off fundraising last year will likely be in the market come hell or high water in 2023, Connie reports. Kirsten has more.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon’s new Bedrock cloud service lets developers incorporate generative AI

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If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Startups and VC Comixology was genuinely a game changer. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! Aria has more.

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Nigerian digital freight provider MVX lands $1.3M to help shippers move cargoes faster

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In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. The market for cross-border logistics services is said to hit revenues of $32 billion by 2025. The company was called MVXchange at first.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: BNPL competition heats up, Bowery Farming TC-1, Silicon Valley dreams

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“As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2025,” says founding partner Amit Anand. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Any advice? Eager Entrepreneur.

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Meet Liquido, which aims to be the ‘Stripe of LatAm’ — but with even bigger ambitions

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Yet, the transaction value of digital commerce in Latin America was estimated at more than $100 billion in 2019 and is now expected to increase by about 73% by 2025, according to Statista. Qi teamed up with MK Li, a former VC who began his career as a product manager at Google and Microsoft.

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