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How Parfait is using AI to upend the $13B custom wig industry

TechCrunch

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups

TechCrunch

.” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Flywire’s flotation suggests the IPO slowdown is behind us.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Startups and VC. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. In other news, TechCrunch’s Summer Party yesterday was a major success — thanks to all who turned up! I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there.

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What’s your VC tech stack? Results from a survey of early-stage VC funds

David Teten VC

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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Bad CTOs mean startups have millions of dollars’ worth of cap table dead weight

TechCrunch

I’m going to say almost nothing about this, other than quoting Darrell’s article : “every time Musk does something asinine and moronic, we in the media wrestle with the anguish of whether or not we actually have to write about this stupid s**t.” In a nutshell: Customers are not buying as much as they used to. Is BaaS the outlier? (TC+)

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. On one side, the genre has been around for years now, and so the time is ripe to try to disrupt it.