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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. and Enable. More posts by this contributor. Derek Xiao.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

TechCrunch

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

TechCrunch

The new investment will enable the company to expand its meat protein portfolio and scale up production at a new 15,000-square-foot facility in Boulder while also tripling the size of its team, Kelleman told TechCrunch. Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation.

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ManageXR grabs $4 million seed round to scale XR business 

TechCrunch

Its platform looks to scale enterprises’ XR deployments, enabling them to control remotely every aspect of their XR device fleet, including distributing apps and files, customizing the home screen user experience, tracking device health and usage, and more. . “We ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR.

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Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Instead, it offers tools to enable companies to manage multiple private cellular networks, including 3G, 4G and 5G networks, from a single pane of glass. “We plan to raise our next round of capital in the second half of 2024.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

The company claims to have completed several customer engagements and last year announced the opening of a design center in Bengaluru, India, as well as a collaboration with the University of Tübingen to identify AI hardware and software solutions for “ultra-low” energy consumption. .” Sima.ai As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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Komunal secures $8.5m to strengthen Indonesia’s neo-rural bank ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally. Moreover, Komunal also recorded positive EBITDA since October 2022 while experiencing growth and profitability at the same time.