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Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday

TechCrunch

While the company continues to offer an out-of-the-box import workflow, the kit enables customers with more specific requirements to customize the experience, Boskovic said. “[The] platform enables companies to leverage their data sooner.

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Ushur, which aims to automate aspects of the customer experience, raises $50M

TechCrunch

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. After all, Jiffy.ai

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

Yuma’s platform provides ChatGPT-like AI systems that integrate with help desk software, suggesting drafts of replies to customer tickets that are both “relevant and customized to the support agents” (in theory). “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support.

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

In a nutshell, Vesta’s technology aims to provide a customizable platform for mortgage origination, supporting approval, underwriting and the closing and funding of home loans. . ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We Image Credits: Vesta.

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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Startup Best Practices 26 - Choosing Your Startup's Competitive Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

In most software categories, incumbents exist and for start up to win share, the company must wrest budget of way from incumbents. These ELAs enable customers to buy Microsoft products without having to go through procurement, greasing the sales process. Best in class and proprietary technology (Google). How to do that best?