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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

I think it was just this incredibly powerful technology, and given that AI wasn’t quite there yet, [social media] was the main thing that there was to do, to apply all the technology to. You know, incumbents versus startups. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. Another feature, Web Spotlight, provides businesses a “page-centric” view of content for making changes to copy and trying layouts, while Collections lets customers share and reuse content across teams and control access to specialized (e.g.,

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021. Since the pandemic disrupted the social rhythms of work and school, many of us have compensated by changing our relationship to digital media. Check out the amazing speakers joining us on Extra Crunch Live in February.

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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

TechCrunch

Specifically, its latest offering is designed to serve subscription, membership and SaaS (software-as-a-service) service companies. For its part, Pipe came out of the gate with the same SaaS focus but has since expanded to working with non-SaaS companies as well.

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CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

TechCrunch

CommerceIQ’s retail e-commerce management tools automate and unify aspects, like category analytics and management of retail media, sales and operations, under one roof for brands. Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added. Where Are They Now?

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Data Middleware - The SaaS Ecosystem's Response to Fragmentation

Tomasz Tunguz

As the number of SaaS applications has exploded, the SaaS ecosystem is responding to data fragmentation with middleware. The incumbents acquire successful point solutions and combine them with an existing platform, to capture more revenue and reinforce their competitive advantage. And HR/recruiting.

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