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Komunal secures $8.5m to strengthen Indonesia’s neo-rural bank ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. “We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our investors, rural bank partners, and loyal users. The post Komunal secures $8.5m

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Lowercarbon Capital and Gradient Ventures Invest $9M in Quilt for Advanced Residential Heat Pump System

American Entrepreneurship

The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. For more information, visit www.quilt.com.

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

TechCrunch

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. LG’s exit from the smartphone market comes as no surprise.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

I went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad in Computer Science, and I just found such a supportive community there that it was able to help support my natural interest, but also help me through the hard times. They were supporting me, and stuff like that. Because computer science is not an easy degree, by any means.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

They are founders that are not only building very interesting companies but have taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? with Michael Biercuk (Q-CTRL).

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Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform

TechCrunch

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify.

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Why Free Product + Paid Media = Death for Subscription Companies

Entrepreneur's Handbook

We will build the product and attract more people with a free tier and then attract even more people with paid media. The problem, as I see it, is that having a truly free product tier and making paid media a dominant channel are pretty much incompatible with a subscription business. Then we’ll have a giant business.

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