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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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Fini: Empowering Wellness Creators and Transforming Lives

Jason Malki

With a mission to empower creators and foster a vibrant community, Ashley brings a wealth of expertise in human-centric design, mobile-development and advocacy for mental and physical health to Fini. Fini is more than a platform; it’s a community fostering well-being. What motivated you to launch your startup? This was very insightful.

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Browser-based hardware design tool Flux raises $12M

TechCrunch

Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. The Community Library, meanwhile, offers access to schematics, models and open source parts — a little bit GitHub, a little bit Makerbot Thingiverse. Image Credits: Flux.

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Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M

TechCrunch

Mostaque co-founded and bootstrapped Stability AI in 2020, motivated both by a personal fascination with AI and what he characterized as a lack of “organization” within the open source AI community. But Mostaque has repeatedly asserted that the company’s R&D will enable it to train models more efficiently going forward.

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10 Reasons Why I Use Bubble.IO to Iterate on Startup Ideas

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Bubble is a no-code platform that enables you to build web apps. There are a number of no-code platforms out there, but I started using Bubble last year and have built several projects on it (including the MVP of my startup Gaya : a platform enabling people in close-knit communities to share their cars with each other).

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ianacare picks up $12.1M to fundamentally change the family caregiver experience

TechCrunch

Working family caregivers spend an average of 25 hours a week caring for their loved ones on top of their full-time jobs, and ultimately, the current lack of support and resources drives 32% of them to leave their job to care full time. . Today, caregiver support is the most overlooked gap in healthcare and employee benefits.

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

Serverless Stack’s technology enables engineers to more easily build full-stack serverless apps. Since its launch six months ago, Serverless Stack has grown to over 2,000 stars on GitHub and was downloaded more than 60,000 times. V has earmarked the new funding to expand the team, including hiring engineers to support new use cases.