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JULY 21, 2022

The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the Boulder-based company creating a new category of clean, whole-cut alternative meats and the latest addition to Revolution Growth’s portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Meat substitutes have gained traction as planet-friendly alternatives to their animal-based counterparts, but few check all the boxes on consumers’ wishlists.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

A lot of promising companies come out of work by researchers at universities, or even grad students who have struck on some new innovation. But the transition from tech-focused research group to product-focused startup isn’t easy to make; fortunately three experts in the matter joined us at TC Sessions: Robotics to discuss a few ways to get through it successfully.

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Secure Docs

JULY 21, 2022

With mergers and acquisitions (M&A), it is likely that an overarching due diligence investigation will be required to allow the parties to the transaction to gain a strong understanding of the other side’s financial, corporate, and legal standing. This is a particularly rigorous process when there are substantial assets or significant risks at stake.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

15Five — an early mover in the world of building technology to help motivate teams, and to improve performance management for execs overseeing those teams — has raised $52 million in a round of growth funding that it will be using to expand its own performance. Now in use at some 3,400 companies — customers include Credit Karma, Spotify and Pendo, with its sweet spot specifically on businesses with between 100 and 2,500 employees — the startup will double down on what Dav

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 21, 2022

Learn from the founder of SweatCoin Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today’s guest is Anton Derlyatka, the founder, and CEO of Sweatcoin. Sweatcoin is an app that pays you to do exercise. It might sound too good to be true, as many people have tried in the past, but during this episode, you can learn why Sweatcoin has been successful where many other startups

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 21, 2022

Don’t pitch investors like we’re customers Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Factors like latency, bandwidth, security and privacy are driving the adoption of edge computing, which aims to process data closer to where it’s being generated. Consider a temperature sensor in a shipyard or a fleet of cameras in a fulfillment center. Normally, the data from them might have to be relayed to a server for analysis. But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 21, 2022

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. During this time, startups have taken up the challenge to bolster the infrastructure needed for packages to get to their end destination quickly and cheaper. That goal has created somewhat of a competitive landscape , especially within the last-mile sector.

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Venture Well

JULY 21, 2022

Our Cultivating Inclusivity article series takes a deep dive into one of the most talked-about topics at OPEN 2022: the concept of belonging in higher. The post Cultivating Inclusivity: The Impact of Belonging on Student Success appeared first on VentureWell.

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JULY 21, 2022

“Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) startups have gained traction by targeting consumers, but BNPLs for businesses are also starting to take off. One example is Fairbanc , which is based in Singapore but focused on Indonesia. It allows small businesses to take out short-term credit to purchase fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) inventory. Fairbanc announced today it has raised $4.8 million in pre-Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 21, 2022

Since our inception in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has been a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. This was highly intentional on our part. Historically, the largest number of great technology companies emerged from Silicon Valley for good reason – the network … The post a16z is Moving to the Cloud appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. But rarely is it this simple. According to a recent survey conducted by Splunk, 86% of developers see difficulties related to tech as a challenge to observability adoption.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 21, 2022

Jeremy Howard is and artificial intelligence researcher and the co-founder of fast.ai, a platform for non-experts to learn artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prior to starting fast.ai, he founded multiple companies — including FastMail and Enlitic, a pioneer in applying deep learning to the medical field — and was president and chief scientist of machine-learning.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Livestream shopping in the United States has a ways to go to catch up with China’s booming $600 billion industry, but Whatnot’s new $260 million Series D round shows that shoppers stateside are increasingly embracing this way of buying and selling items. The new investment was co-led by DST Global and returning investor CapitalG, and more than doubles the live shopping platform’s valuation to $3.7 billion, up from the $1.5 billion valuation in September 2021, when Whatnot raised $150 million.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 21, 2022

“We need to start doing more with less. Finance told us our budget is decreasing by 20%.” This sentence echoes in conference rooms across many software buyers today, irrespective of whether the business is healthy. Boards push prudence during a time of recession, which cascades through the organization. Management teams expect to reduce operating expense by 20% predominantly through headcount reductions or hiring freezes - everyone from sardine startups to public megalodons.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

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. Well hello again! It’s Thursday — heat waves are heat wavin’, and all of TechCrunch is psyched about a fun and engaging Robotics event today. That’s not all that’s happening, though. We’ve had 70 new stories on the site since our last newsletter, which means that we got to learn about all sorts of wild and wonderful happenings in our world of startups and com

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Teja Yenamandra. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Teja Yenamandra is the co-founder and CEO of Gun.io. Venture funds are clear: Given the uncertainty of the coming few years as the Fed seeks to unwind its decades-long monetary policy, the mandate for CEOs is to: Cut burn. Slow growth. Carefully manage towards profitability. This is a tough pill to swallow for founders who were planning to accelerate growth this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Damien Howard. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Damien Howard is a partner in the Orange County office of Knobbe Martens. His practice focuses on protecting medical device, telecommunications, software and electronics-based inventions for both established companies and startups. Vlad Teplitskiy. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vlad Teplitskiy is a partner in the Orange County office of Knobbe Martens.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Meati Foods , which is developing the Eat Meati brand of proteins made from mushroom root, is poised to begin shipping its plant-based meat product later this year after closing on $150 million in new Series C funding. The round, which gives the company $278.6 million in total funding, according to Crunchbase data, was led by Revolution Growth, with participation from existing and new investors, including CPP Investments, Grosvenor, Wellington Management and Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new venture

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Chartering a private plane is never going to be cheap, no matter how many startups have promised to make it more affordable over the years. But that doesn’t mean it can’t become cheaper. AeroVanti Air Club , which is announcing a $9.75 million Series A fundraising round led by Network1 Financial Securities, is betting on the rather distinct Piaggio P.180 Avanti turboprop (you can see where the company name comes from), to offer lower hourly rates for its club members.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

As the crypto markets continue to tumble, a major industry player’s beliefs are also taking a turn as he shifts from being a “Bitcoin maximalist” to what he calls a “Bitcoin rationalist.” The reason for this change seems to be that he sees a future for the coin in decentralized finance (DeFi). Long-time Bitcoin backer Dan Held exclusively told TechCrunch he has stepped down from his role as director of growth at crypto exchange Kraken.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

On Tuesday, I covered Arkive’s $9.7 million funding round , a startup that is trying to answer the question: “What if the Smithsonian was owned and curated by the internet?” The company’s founder and CEO Tom McLeod was gracious enough to let me take a closer look at the pitch deck he used to raise their seed round for our pitch deck teardown series here on TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

When Kristy Kim started TomoCredit in early 2019, she was on a mission to help international students more easily obtain credit. Three and a half years later, that mission has evolved. TomoCredit, which aims to help young adults who are in good financial health but have no credit score, is no longer just focused on immigrants. Today, Tomo is expanding its focus to a broader group of people in the United States who want “to build credit fast,” including domestic students and SMBs.

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