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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth.

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

TechCrunch

If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. These days, however, it feels like the worlds of AI and advances in mobile computing are increasingly coming together to evolve that concept once again.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Use the tools you have already developed, leverage your reputation and make a plan that enables you to react dynamically to the market and builds to an alternative goal. Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It

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Reflections on YCombinator Demo Day: How the Seed Market Has Changed

Tomasz Tunguz

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). I’ve been attending for six years now.

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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

TechCrunch

The IPO market is healthy again, but M&A still represents 88% of exits: So far this year, there were 503 IPOs and 5,203 deals,” writes Boissevain, founder of Ascento Capital. “The space, the founder, the products and the back end … they exemplify the new Chinese consumer brand.“.