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Check out all the partner sessions on the TC+ stage at Disrupt

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We’re literally days away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019 — and we can’t wait to get this party started on October 18. Get ready for three days packed with top-notch speakers and opportunity. No pass? Act fast: Buy your pass before October 14 at 11:9 p.m. (PDT) and you’ll save $700. With so much going on, we want to take a moment to highlight all of the partner sessions taking place on the TC+ stage.

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Even after doing Techstars and an interview with YC I could not raise capital for a new business

Founder Bounty

VC funding is hard. Very hard. The chances of you raising are very very small and dont be surprised if you dont get it. Even after being through techstars , plug and play and building Europes first ondemand fuel business , we could NOT raise money for chefr (an eCommerce platform for restaurants). Even having an interview with YC we still could not do it.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford , a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data

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The Customer Is Always Right” Is the Most Misunderstood Phrase In Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You’ve probably even used it wrong yourself Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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AgriWebb’s software seeks to boost yields, lower environmental impacts for farmers and ranchers

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AgriWebb is on a mission to help livestock producers feed the world efficiently, profitably and sustainably by providing its comprehensive, ground-truth database for beef production worldwide. The Australian startup, which builds a livestock management platform for ranchers and farmers, wants to digitize farm records and the meat production process from the cow to the consumer and drive the industry’s animal and environmental welfare transparency.

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It’s your last week to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt

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We’re on the home stretch, startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off in less than 10 days and runs from October 18–20. This message goes out to all the last-minute decision-makers. It’s the final week you can save serious cheddar on a Disrupt pass. It’s go time. Buy your pass b efore October 14 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT) , and you’ll save $700. Disrupt is where the early-startup community — founders, investors, engineers, tech leaders, icons, makers and shakers — come to launch, learn, connect,

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Brandalism: How To Protect Your Business From Public Shaming

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Give your customers the chocolate they want with 6 prevention tactics. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Singapore-based staffing platform Workmate acquired by Persol Asia Pacific

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Workmate , a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific , one of the region’s largest HR service providers. Workmate focuses on frontline and essential workers, and the acquisition will allow it to expand its HR solutions throughout the Asia Pacific. Workmate currently operates in Thailand and Indonesia and is expanding operations into Singapore this month.

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Launching a Financial Product: How to Choose the Right Funding Structure

Andreessen Horowitz

This article is the first of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. One of the most common conversations we have with fintech entrepreneurs looking to launch a new financial product is about … The post Launching a Financial Product: How to Choose the Right Funding Structure appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Growth hacking is really just growth testing

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Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. Why growth activation matters. To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022?

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Meilisearch lands $15M investment to grow its ‘search-as-a-service’ business

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Meilisearch , the creator behind the open source search engine project of the same name, today closed a $15 million Series A round led by Felicis, with participation from CRV, LocalGlobe, ESOP, Mango Capital, Seedcamp and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. CEO Quentin de Quelen tells TechCrunch that the new cash will help to expand Paris-based Meilisearch’s marketing and sales teams as the company transitions to an “enterprise-focused” strategy. “For three years, we have created

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Airwallex raises $100M to power cross-border business banking, valuation stays flat at $5.5B

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The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internationally. Now a startup providing the tools to make and manage those transactions is announcing some funding. Airwallex , the Hong Kong/Australia startup that provides cross-border banking and other financial services for businesses, has raised $100 million, money that it will be using to continue expanding its business operationally, geographically and with new products in areas l

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Thai beauty platform Konvy raises Series A for international expansion

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Founded 10 years ago, Konvy is now Thailand’s top beauty e-commerce platform. It plans to accelerate its omnichannel and international distribution with a new Series A of $10 million from Insignia Ventures Partners. Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China. It now works with more than 1,000 brands, representing SKUs of more than 20,000.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1M to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments

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Clerkenwell Health , a psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation, has raised £2.1 million in seed funding, bringing the total to date up to £2.5 million, which will be used to get the London-based startup fully operational. Investors include Lionheart Ventures, Convergence Partners and Exceptional Ventures, which was co-founded by Paolo Pio (former MD Europe at Joyance Partners) and Matt Cooper (who was part of the founding team at Capital One Bank in the U.S., co-founder of Tandem B

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Green shoots appear in crypto land as winter reigns

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Now comfortably into Q4 2022, TechCrunch is busy looking at a mountain of data from the third quarter, hoping to solidify our understanding of where the market for startup deal-making was, is right now and where it’s heading next. So far, we’ve seen stronger than anticipated American venture capital results , a somewhat troubling international picture , and we’re keeping tabs on unicorns as well on software companies.

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OG App, what exactly was your end game here?

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A couple of weeks ago, Apple removed the OG App from its app store , and today Google followed suit , booting the app from its platform as well. And I’m left scratching my head wondering what the end game was for the founders of the OG App. As far as I can tell, the company basically made a new version of Instagram that strips the advertising out, and brings back the non-algorithmic feed.

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Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand

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In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Even at well-run companies, anywhere from 20% to 30% of inventory is either dead (i.e. doesn’t sell) or obsolete, according to one source. The impact on profitability can be quite severe. Dead stock costs sellers and manufacturers as much as 11% of their revenue, reports Katana, which develops raw material and bills of material tracking software.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Daily Crunch: After bans by Apple and Google, The OG App ‘will be unable to continue serving users’

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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Beep boop, here we go again with another exciting week in tech. Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. Oh, and Haje has written more than 20 Pitch Deck Teardowns over on TC+ — and he’s running low on decks to review.

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Endor emerges from stealth with $25M to secure software supply chains

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An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift, a software supply chain management platform, 92% of professional software developers said that their apps contained open source libraries. While that’s a positive trend — open source confers a wealth of benefits, not least of which transparency — it can have its drawbacks, like low visibility into whether the code might contain vulnerabilities.

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It would be nice to not talk about Elon Musk for a bit

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that the code “EQUITY” can save you money on Disrupt tickets and TechCrunch+ access. And it makes us here on the show look good! We’re gearing up to take the show on the road in short order, but don’t worry about that this week.