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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. The recurring second wave of innovation.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). No longer will content creation be the project bottleneck but team collaboration and review. A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser.

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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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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.

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Alation bags $123M at a $1.7B valuation for its data-cataloging software

TechCrunch

“With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. Alation also makes recommendations based on how information is being used and orchestrated. .”

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

“Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. “With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.”

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

TechCrunch

“The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. ” Sima.ai

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