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

TechCrunch

Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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Daily Crunch: Blocking VLC player downloads violates Indian law, claims VideoLAN in legal challenge

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The Google iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets are starting to roll out, enabling users to put widgets on the Lock Screen of their iPhone, Sarah writes. Startups and VC. Harri reports that Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. It’s here, it’s here! :

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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

Unlike typical enterprise software companies, open source startups must go through two journeys for finding product-market fit: First, building a product that users would download and use for free, and then building features that users would pay for. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies.

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

TechCrunch

But Mostaque has repeatedly asserted that the company’s R&D will enable it to train models more efficiently going forward. ” Meanwhile, the open source version of Stable Diffusion has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, according to a press release published by Stability AI this morning.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive raises $3M

TechCrunch

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. For one thing, the startup does not require consumers to download any additional apps in order to watch its videos.

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Stellar Sleep’s Digital Platform offers Relief from Chronic Insomnia, Seed Round Completed

American Entrepreneurship

A recently funded startup, Stellar Sleep, offers help via its digital sleep therapy platform that addresses insomnia through a combination of technology and psychology. Now with funding in hand, the health startup can build additional capacity and provide more comprehensive content and personalization of the user experience.

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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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