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Catch founder says health benefits startup is shutting down

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Catch co-founder Kristen Anderson tweeted Monday that the health and retirement benefits company she and co-founder Andrew Ambrosino started six years ago is shuttering. Anderson previously spoke with me in 2021 when Catch raised $12 million in Series A funding. In total, the company raised $18.1

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Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients

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In addition to the expansion, Shef will grow its engineering team as it focuses on product development, including new discovery and meal preference and customization features for consumers. The round was led by CRV with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Amex Ventures. It also included $7 million in venture debt.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing churn rates, visa side hustles, YC S22 Demo Day faves

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That’s why marketing and product teams need onboarding goals, says Sam, who explains the tactics he used to insert themselves into the customer journey and how those changes helped them reduce turnover by almost 3x. According to Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC, GenZ investors “are still a bunch of kids, myself included.”

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Daily Crunch: Former employee says Patreon has laid off its entire security team

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EDT we are talking with Andrew Chan about why Gen Z VCs are trash, and at 12:00 p.m. More layoffs : Patreon, a company that enables content creators to offer monthly payment subscriptions to customers, confirmed that it let go of five people from its security team. It was a short week, but it still dragged on a little. At 8:00 a.m.

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Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

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Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen. The app was reported to be raising at a $1 billion valuation in a report from The Information that landed just before this confirmation.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Checking the pulse of telehealth : Andrew reports that telehealth unicorn Cerebral lays off 20% of staff for “operational efficiencies.” To help companies prepare for TDD, Van Itallie has written a primer with eight questions founding teams must be able to answer confidently. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle

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Clubhouse said the new round of financing was led by Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from DST Global, Tiger Global and Elad Gil. It’s no secret that our servers have struggled a bit these past few months, and that our growth has outpaced the early discovery algorithms our small team originally built,” said the post.

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