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Ayoken raises $1.4M to grow its NFT marketplace for creatives

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Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. NFT holders will also get other perks like access to unreleased music and exclusive live events by the creatives.

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Advancing Humankind Through Individual Consciousness

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Wellbeing and a self-aware mindset generate more and higher-quality thoughts and ideas, creativity, innovation, lives and experiences. In this way, we can enable mental health, expand emotional wellbeing and enhance human cognition at a scale never before possible. Happiness actually creates success.

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Cart-e Blanche: Navigating a Brave New E-Commerce World

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Where we’re going: Customer acquisition gets creative (on a budget). Performance marketing was once a steroid for company growth, enabling businesses to grow cost-efficiently as they only paid when they achieved desired outcomes. Brands’ budgets are tightening, and many are being pushed to reduce burn and chart paths to profitability.

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Certainty on Demand: How Labor Platforms are Moving to Higher Order Work

This is going to be BIG.

They preselect the inventory of fixtures, create standardized pricing, and vet for the basics of contractor reliability—has references, is licensed, etc. These platforms enable automation to solve higher order problems effectively, driving above market revenues for lower cost tasks.

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The Art (and Science) of Building a Customer-Centric E-Commerce Brand

Revolution

Today’s e-commerce companies, faced with tightening advertising budgets and increased competition, are finding creative solutions to help personalize and gamify the customer experience. It’s for these reasons, in part, that our portfolio company Mad Rabbit has made community building central to their GTM strategy.

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Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

TechCrunch

The company’s goal is to enable anyone creative to make an income through the use of NFTs — that means developing tools to make it simpler for its users to mint NFTs, but also, building out its existing creator-focused social network. With Cent’s seed funding Hejazi hopes to continue building the platform.

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

TechCrunch

But Adept’s vision, at a high level, is to create what it refers to as an “AI teammate” trained to use a wide variety of different software tools and APIs. Adept is building on this momentum via a new kind of foundation model that can perform actions on any software tool using natural language,” he said in a press release.

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