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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

TechCrunch

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing platform that’s been described as the Airbnb for cars, will expand to Australia before the end of the year, Rebecca reports. PDT, subscribe here.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. Real estate remains a large, established multi-billion dollar category where lots of things continue to be done in lots of old fashioned ways.

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Calendaring.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

That said, Navid Nathoo, Founder at The Knowledge Society , told us, “The ability to self-learn and self-start is a superpower that is not learned in school; in fact it must be learned outside of school.” We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and Kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta

TechCrunch

Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. If you’re also using it for the optional Kegal exercises that would take a bit longer.). Kegg was unveiled on the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage, back in 2018 , as part of our startup battlefield competition (though it didn’t go on to win).

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Making Textiles from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We’re seduced by its convenience: more than 50% of plastic is used once and thrown away. In humans, certain plastics are known to disrupt the endocrine system, impair neurological function, and have been linked to cancer, obesity, early puberty and recurrent miscarriages. Plastic enters our oceans at an alarming rate, killing 1.5