TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. Instead, Stream’s focus are services for consumers to talk to other consumers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in social tools. The timeline of early 2022 also suggests that this is a major product change, probably coinciding with a big platform update on Sony’s long-term PS5 roadmap.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Social Venturers is launching a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. Pm EST for a one-hour Fireside Chat about Ecosystem Building principle #3: Enlist collaborators. Format: Fireside Chats. 3 Enlist collaborators. Everyone is invited. October 8th 2020, 2. Everyone is invited.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space. PingPong , a recent launch from Y Combinator’s latest batch, is building an asynchronous video chat app for the workplace. We selected PingPong as one of our favorite startups that debuted last week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Daily Crunch: Twitter removes live audio chat after CEO joins Space with banished reporters by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. Seeing the music, not just hearing it : We enjoyed Devin ’s story on Riffusion, an AI model that composes music by visualizing it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Bubbles , a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, 468 Ventures and Bain Capital.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Social Venturers is hosting a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. Pm EST for a one-hour Fireside Chat about Ecosystem Building principle #5: Connect people bottom-up, top-down, inside-out, etc. Format: Fireside Chats. 5 Connect people top-down, bottom-up, inside-out etc. ESHIP playbook ).

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Social Venturers is launching a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. In our 4th Fireside Chat, we will explore what values drive your community and how you are able to lead others by living those values. Pm EST for a one-hour Fireside Chat about Ecosystem Building principle #4: Live the Values.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Social Venturers is launching a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. Pm EST for a one-hour Fireside Chat about Ecosystem Building principle #2: Foster Inclusive Conversations. Format: Fireside Chats. 2 Foster Inclusive Conversations (September 24, 2020, 2.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

That look-forward post also missed the biggest new thing in tech, Chat GPT, which had initially launched about a month before I wrote it. That was a big miss as 2023 will most certainly be remembered as the year that AI went mainstream with consumers, thanks to Chat GPT and other consumer interfaces to large AI models.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. As of today, Copilot Chat is available in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 15, 2020

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. The post Founders’ Chat: Jack Coleman – Managing Your Cashflow appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. When you ask a founder what their biggest concern is, most of them will likely mention cashflow.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Social Venturers is launching a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. Pm EST for a one-hour Fireside Chat about Ecosystem Building principle #1: Put entrepreneurs front and center. Format: Fireside Chats. 1 Put entrepreneurs front and center (September 10, 2020, 2.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. “Do Seeking advice from successful entrepreneurs can also reveal golden nuggets of advice, as Joe has found from chatting with his coworkers at GridAKL. Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Shaping the Future of CRM: A Chat with Daniel Gualotuna of Coast 2 Coast Cloud Consulting was originally published in SuperWarm on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. I’m active on LinkedIn, where I share insights, updates, and connect with fellow professionals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capital in today’s frenetic fundraising environment, digging into the gritty mechanics for the audience. This post rounds up a few favorite excerpts from the chat, starting with Kunst’s notes on how to make a killer pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to pin chats within one-on-one and group conversations. However, users can pin only one chat at a time. The Meta-owned chat app mentioned that you can pin a chat by long-pressing on a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. For this month’s Founders’ Chat, we spoke to Alex McCall , one of our residents at GridAKL / John Lysaght and the co-founder of Choice and Squawk Squad about how to conduct user testing. Tell us about Choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We had a great hour-long chat about the industry and the deals of the week. He’s a financial journalist and is damn good at his job. So it was fun to get his perspective on topics that are sometimes too toxic for VCs to talk about publicly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And that, essentially, is because most chat apps default to using peer-to-peer connections — meaning you and the person you’re talking to connect directly to each other — to improve the quality of the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Your favorite messaging and calling app could reveal your IP address to the person on the other end of a call.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The chatbot platform, which offers customizable AI companions with distinct personalities and tools to make your own, is now offering a group chat experience where users and their friends can chat with multiple AI characters […]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

I recently had a chat with Dr. Gill Pratt , who is CEO of Toyota Research Institute in the United States and now the chief scientist for Toyota Motor Corporation. Checking in with Toyota’s chief scientist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The app launched locked chats earlier this year to help people hide sensitive conversations, and is now adding a way to further protect those chats and make them harder to find if […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 1, 2020

JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava and CTO Greg Keller are hosting fireside chats throughout November and December to share JumpCloud’s product vision and highlight exciting investment areas on the 2021 product roadmap. The post [JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] Join a Fireside Chat appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 17, 2023

Register Protico, a market leader in the Web3 Chat space, successfully raised its pre-seed round last month and is excited to unveil its new product, the Web3 Lobby developer tool for business owners. As the 1st search result of “Web3 Chat” on Google, Protico has a proven track record of driving innovation in this space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 29, 2022! Haje and I are now flying solo with the newsletter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The former, a feature called “reimagine,” allows users in group chats to have more fun by recreating […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The YLAI Network hosted Michael Goldberg , a professor of entrepreneurship and an expert in international business development, for a Facebook chat in November for Global Entrepreneurship Week. Thank you to Michael Goldberg and to everyone else who participated in this chat. 5 ways to manage burnout.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2016

How does a chat bot company transform a technology advantage into a distribution advantage? These advances will improve natural language understanding, enabling chat interfaces to amaze and delight users. And let’s also assume that on top of the messaging platforms, these chat services flourish.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition, end-to-end encryption for group chats is now fully rolled out to all RCS users. With this update, all conversations between users in Messages, whether 1:1 or group chats, will now be kept private, Google says. The company says it will now make RCS the default for both new and existing Messages app users.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The best AI chatbots The leader: ChatGPT The runner-up: Google Bard Internet-connected: Microsoft Bing AI , Perplexity , YouChat , KoalaChat For content writing: Jasper Chat , Chat by Copy.ai , ChatSonic , ZenoChat For messaging: Personal AI For tinkering: OpenAI playground , Poe For fun: AI Test Kitchen , Character.AI Chat experience.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 4, 2024

Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! On this first episode of Raising Health, Sean Duffy, cofounder and CEO of Omada Health, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health. Sean and Vijay discuss the building and growth of Omada, from the early days to now.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

Vijay Pande, founding general partner of a16z Bio + Health, chats with the builders (and siblings) behind Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Social Chat team, from left, Richard Lin, Pearl Tsang, Frost Li and Michael Chen. Social Chat team, from left, Richard Lin, Pearl Tsang, Frost Li and Michael Chen. Image Credits: Social Chat.

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