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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. But he knows that. I’ve been told so.

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Ai Palette raises $4.4M to help companies react faster to consumer trends

TechCrunch

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. The present and future of food tech investment opportunity. In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trends land on store shelves much more quickly.

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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

TechCrunch

The utility (and, ultimately, the profitability) of these products doesn’t rely on them holding huge amounts of capital — rather, it is the data they harvest and contain that endows them with value. Open-banking models raise a number of challenges. If the U.S.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

” Emperia collects a lot of datadata that not every shopper might be comfortable sharing. Highlighting the pressure platform developers face, AltspaceVR, one of the first social applications of VR, was recently sunsetted by parent company Microsoft.

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Electric utility bike startup Ubco raises $10 million to fund its global expansion

TechCrunch

We have a strong enterprise market in New Zealand and have developed a strong pipeline of sales internationally,” Timothy Allan, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. . While direct consumer sales make up for most of Ubco’s revenue at present, the company is pushing aggressively into enterprise, and more specifically, subscription services.

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Backed by $5M led by General Catalyst, Evvy launches a vaginal microbiome test to support women’s health research

TechCrunch

The user returns their swab to the startup for analysis — and gets detailed information and analysis of the microbes (fungi and bacteria) that are present in their vagina and may be associated with a variety of health concerns. “We give users back a full understanding of everything that’s present.

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7 Current and Future Breakthrough Space Exploration Technologies for Investors to Monitor

Angel Capital Association

Several companies are actively researching and developing technologies for asteroid mining. The foremost and most key development behind reusable rockets is their ability to reduce the astronomical costs associated with space missions. Water, for instance, can be converted into rocket fuel, enabling deeper space exploration.