TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Husband-and-wife co-founders Daniel and Brenna Stitzel are developing a way for foodies to monetize their culinary creations and closed on a round of $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to officially launch Foody. The investment was led by Serena Ventures, with Goodwater Capital and a group of angel investors joining, including Patreon’s Jack Conte, former Postmates exec Vivek Patel, Greenoaks Capital’s Neil Mehta and KeepTruckin’s Shoaib Makani.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Classiq is joining the SEQUOIA Project to focus on software engineering of industrial hybrid quantum applications and algorithms. Read more here. The post [Classiq in Businesswire] Classiq to collaborate with the Fraunhofer institute and other leading universities on new methods for industrial quantum use appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s tough to be a seller when there are so many products out there on marketplaces just waiting to be discovered. Promoted.ai is out to help people find you, securing $2 million in funding to continue developing its tool that matches buyers to sellers in marketplace search. The company was started by two former Pinterest marketplace and ad designers, Andrew Yates and Dan Hill, who wanted to help buyers find what they want more easily, which leads to repeat purchases.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

One of the most controversial and debated forms of marketing. Read more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Back when most commerce took place on the local high street, shoppers who exchanged personally identifiable information with merchants received something in return. Shops kept track of customers’ hat, shoe and dress sizes, along with their birthdays, anniversaries and personal preferences. In return, buyers got a first look at new products and service that anticipated their wants — personalized shopping.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

João Del Valle. Contributor. João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX , a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform for global merchants, tech giants and other large companies from all over the world. If you look under the hood of nearly any large merchant’s e-commerce operations, there are likely more than a dozen different card-acceptance platforms meshed together to serve different parts of the world with banking partners doin

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“Food delivery has reached new heights” intoned the video played with dramatic music at the Food On Demand Conference today. People look skyward, gasping, from atop a horse or in their car, then customers make a mad dash to their backyard as an El Pollo Loco-branded drone lowers their food via a cable, right at their feet. “Introducing Air Loco, the first national restaurant to deliver by air,” the video says, and just like that, the Jetsons become a reality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines! This is our Friday show, a roundup of the week’s biggest and most fascinating stories from startups, venture capital and technology. Natasha and Alex along with Grace and Chris had to cut and cut and cut to get the show to fit this week, so if we didn’t get to your favorite story, we wanted to.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Stellar Cyber has integrated its security platform with Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, and Barracuda Total Email Protection. This move brings enhanced visibility, automated incident correlation, threat hunting and remediation to managed security service provider (MSSP) customers and prospects, the company states. Read more here. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Salesforce users tend to have a similar complaint in the amount of time it takes to update records, but Weflow aims to conquer this form of “Salesforce fatigue.”. The Berlin-based company is developing a tool — still in private beta — that makes it faster to update Salesforce and reduces much of the busy work that takes up salespeople’s time. While 83% of Fortune 500 companies use the platform to improve sales productivity, many sales professionals spend the bulk of their time on tasks other tha

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Moovit users will now be able to view in real-time where a LINK vehicle is available nearby, how long it will take to walk there and compare LINK e-scooter rides with other modes of local transit to select the best option. Read more here. The post [Superpedestrian in Mass Transit] LINK by Superpedestrian partners with Moovit to scoot into more than 40 cities across eight countries appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Priti Choksi, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, has a portfolio that includes Bright, Lumosity, Citcon, UPSIDE Foods and Birdies. But before she ever entered the world of VC, she was an operator at companies like Facebook and Google. She managed business development teams and ran M&A and has vast experience in the world of growing and scaling companies.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Scopio, AI-powered digital blood diagnosis. OurCrowd signs MOU with Colombian innovation authority. OurCrowd Global Summit, Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. ByondXR launches shopping into the metaverse. Gates-backed fund grants MigVax $4.3M for oral Covid vaccine. Orbital Insight detects N. Korea’s increased uranium mining.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Nestled in Rivian’s S-1 IPO filings was a note that there the EV company’s “cornerstone investors” had “indicated an interest” in buying up to $5 billion worth of its stock at its IPO price. One of those parties was Amazon, and the American e-commerce giant appears to have pulled the trigger Friday afternoon on its buy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Oxygen, a startup that is bringing digital banking services to freelancers and micro- and small-sized businesses , is in talks to raise a new round at a valuation of over $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The San Francisco-headquartered firm is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $70 million, the sources said. London-based Tribe Ventures is in talks to lead Oxygen’s Series B round, the sources added, requesting anonymity because the details are private.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mobility 54 Investment SAS, a corporate venture capital subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO group, DOB Equity and InfraCo Africa have invested $3.4 million (€3 million) in electric motorcycle startup Zembo to help it grow its business. Zembo, a French startup with operations in Uganda was founded in 2018 and sells electric motorcycles through a lease-to-own program.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The global venture capital market is increasingly active , but few locales are seeing the sort of investment acceleration that African startups are enjoying this year. New data indicates that African startups have already outraised all known prior years, meaning 2021 is sure to be a record. But, more importantly, the pace at which African startups are raising money in 2021 is accelerating, with September data indicating that it was perhaps the best month ever.

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