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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

TechCrunch

Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Easol raises $25M for its experiences and event marketing, booking and payments platform

TechCrunch

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.” ”

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The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows

Andreessen Horowitz

Few people love the software they use to get things done. The earliest and most obvious consumer AI use cases have come from translating a natural language prompt into a media output — e.g., image, video, and text generators. And it’s no surprise why. And where are the highest points of leverage? The same will be true in prosumer.

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Do Androids Get Songs Stuck in Their Heads? My investment in Amper Music.

This is going to be BIG.

The computer will "pair program" with them--riffing back, helping them explore sounds, mixing inspirations, etc. How much more exciting would piano lessons have been if I could have skipped a few pages in the practice book and used a computer to help me compose real music? It will also help create more composers as well.

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Which Instagram ad placement is more cost-effective: Reels, Feed Posts or Stories?

TechCrunch

It’s time to reconsider how you use Instagram’s advertising tools for your business. Over 50% of social media marketing budgets are spent inefficiently because of poor creatives, mixed messaging, limited ad types and unfortunate ad captions. to register and list their services, which clients can book.

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TravelPerk adds $115M to equity and debt Series D, discloses unicorn valuation

TechCrunch

SME-focused business travel booking platform TravelPerk has topped up the $160 million in equity and debt it raised last in a Series D last April with an additional $115 million — closing out the round at $275 million. It also plans to use the funding to double down on growth in its other large market: Europe.

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FireHydrant announces $23M Series B to grow disaster management platform

TechCrunch

The company focuses on helping customers navigate a crisis and a big part of that is run books, which act as playbooks for handling various crisis situations as they arise. So they’re getting really creative in using them to onboard people into incidents and using them for better incident communication.

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