TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grocery store technology hasn’t changed much in decades, so when the pandemic hit, it served as a wake-up call to the industry, highlighting its shortcomings, especially concerning e-commerce. Grocery stores that don’t adapt will most likely lose out on market share. The good news for the grocery industry is that technology advancements in recent years, particularly in the area of computer vision, are giving startups a shot at providing grocery stores with e-commerce-like features in a brick-and

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

Thoughts and self-reflection about the closed company Hola! dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. They all refer to the Hola! Dating app , which I co-founded and played the role of a ???. We started the project in Spring 2021. Four guys (two techs and two non-tech) decided to disrupt the dating app market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The pace of crypto hacks hasn’t slowed in the dog days of summer, with tens of millions of dollars stolen in August alone. As the crypto community carries on in the wake of the expensive exploits, many web3 users are biting their tongue waiting for the next big one to strike. On August 1, Nomad, a crypto bridging protocol, was hacked for about $190 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register edamama , the Philippines’ leading parenting-focused e-commerce platform , has secured a $20 million Series A funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures – one of Southeast Asia’s most prominent venture capital firms. The oversubscribed fundraise is one of the Philippines ’ largest early-stage rounds, and includes significant participation by edamama’s existing investors, notable amo

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AUGUST 12, 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. Last night was a full moon, somehow it’s already halfway through August, and did you know there’s a Beach Plum LaCroix flavor ? The world’s gone topsy-turvy, but at least it’s time for the weekend. What did you do this week that made you feel alive?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the video game Katamari Damacy, players control an avatar who rolls a sticky ball that captures anything it touches. The goal is to create a sphere large enough to become a star or moon. E-commerce aggregators work in much the same way by purchasing smaller brands, then optimizing their manufacturing and sales channels to boost market share. This was effective in a pre-vaccine era when consumers stopped visiting stores, but is the brand-rollup model still viable today?

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 12, 2022

Who are you when you’re online? This question is all the more important as we spend more and more of our lives there. In the past decade, online usage has more than doubled; for GenZ, it’s even greater. How we spend that time has also changed as the early, transactional web has expanded to a. Read More. The post Unbundling Digital Identity Unlocks New Ways to Play and Build appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. Existing investor UVC Partners also participating, among other returning backers.

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Feedough

AUGUST 12, 2022

Today, several businesses make the mistake of commencing their marketing. Read more. The post What is STP Marketing? – The STP Model Explained appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Positive Food Co., providing freshly packaged salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats, raised $7 million in funding as it goes after the $34 billion fresh prepared foods market. In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time.

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OkDork

AUGUST 12, 2022

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. What’s up, you beautiful bastards. We are back with Q&A round 8! In this episode, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things: Updates on my quest to find a wife. How I would run an agency business. What are some companies I would want to work for right out of college. And if you want to have one of your questions answered in a future episode, submit here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Arnav Sahu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arnav Sahu is an investor at Y Combinator Continuity, YC’s growth-stage investing platform. He was previously an investor at Spark Capital, led M&A at AppDynamics and Cisco, and was an investor at The Blackstone Group. It is crazy how giving away your code for free has become a competitive business advantage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Sanjay Manchanda. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sanjay Manchanda is CMO of Chargebee. He has helped build a multibillion dollar SaaS business, scale new product businesses and delivered go-to-market and demand-gen strategies at Box and Microsoft. Challenging times for the tech and consumer industries have created a lot of buzz around “subscription fatigue.” The very model that business and consumer platforms have relied on for growth and predictable revenue seems under threat in a c

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Atlanta’s venture ecosystem is looking pretty peachy. In H1 2022, Atlanta companies raised $1.6 billion in funding, according to a recent PitchBook report. If the second half of the year is the same, it places the city on track to nearly hit the $3.7 billion in capital it raised last year. Another promising sign is that seed-stage deal volume appears to have remained consistent year over year, which signals healthy economic conditions for startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

As individuals try to manage medical information and understand their conditions, many typically turn to Google or WebMD — neither of which does much to verify or provide the latest information. But Roon plans to change this with a medical education platform for vetted information, sourced strictly from doctors, patients, and caregivers. By curating the data it makes available around individual conditions, Roon is meant to reassure patients and caregivers that it’s accurate and well source

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann worked with Grace to record yet another weekly roundup on all the tech news that may have flown past your radar. Or bumped into it so hard that you’re still dizzy and looking for more information.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The world of crypto venture has had a whirlwind few years, with powerful new players inspiring furious catch-up among traditional VC firms aiming to make a name for themselves in the sector. All the while, the corporate venture fund has been reshaped by plenty of the top crypto startups, now capitalizing on historic revenues to bankroll their versions of a web3 future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

No one likes compliance training, but Ethena aims to improve the experience for everyone involved. Join Ethena’s CEO Roxanne Petraeus and Homebrew’s Hunter Walk on this TechCrunch Live event to hear the strategies used to tackle and grow in underserved market segments. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 17 at 11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m. EDT with networking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Living as we are in an IPO drought, new data points about the financial health of unicorns are annoyingly scarce. Unicorns — private tech companies worth $1 billion or more — have become an asset class of their own. Crunchbase counts 1,386 global unicorns, pegging their value at $4.8 trillion. CB Insights counts 1,180 worth $3.8 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

When Databricks announced earlier this month that it crossed a run rate of $1 billion , it was certainly a big milestone for the company, but it wasn’t a huge surprise. The data lake startup has been flying. Almost exactly a year ago, Databricks announced a $1.6 billion raise on an astonishing $38 billion valuation with $600 million ARR. That grew to $800 million ARR by February this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

A stitch in time saves nine, they say — and a blood thinner in time saves a trip to the emergency room for a heart attack, as Diagnostic Robotics hopes to show. The company’s machine learning-powered preventative care aims to predict and avoid dangerous (and costly) medical crises, saving everyone money and hopefully keeping them healthier in general — and it has raised $45 million to scale up.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial limitation: a filter that prevents it from creating images depicting public figures and content deemed too toxic. Now an open source alternative to DALL-E 2 is on the cusp of being released, and it’ll have no such filter.

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