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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

We have witnessed the likes of WeWork, Convene, and Airbnb reimagine working and living, all while catalyzing momentum for further investments across the real estate technology landscape. Modern consumers have increasingly begun to accept, and often prefer, reducing both human and invested capital with technology and third-party services.

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Tile secures $40 million to take on Apple AirTag with new products

TechCrunch

The funding will be put towards investment in Tile’s finding technologies, ahead of the company’s plan to unveil a new slate of products and features that the company believes will help it to better compete with Apple’s AirTags and further expand its market. “We felt this was the right mix of capital choice for us.”

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Some investments will generate returns within a few months, while others may take years to produce results.

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6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech

TechCrunch

He thinks that early use cases may center on customer service, but is certain that more will follow. We have long been pushy on such an indirect distribution, having invested in four embedded insurance startups in property and casualty, bancassurance, life, and SME insurance. That hasn’t changed. That’s a very good question.

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Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe

TechCrunch

market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. “It’s a part time job — I advise them on investments; it’s very light,” Ramaswamy said. West Coast, tomorrow Neevia is switching on its proverbial lights in the U.K., Tripadvisor.

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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

TechCrunch

This might involve gathering and viewing all direct and indirect feedback in a single interface, or using one of Crowd.dev’s premium tools such as Eagle Eye , which leans on natural language processing (NLP) to identify community discussions ripe for engagement. Eagle Eye app. million ($2.2 We’re the first going in the developer space.”

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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