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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story".

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Hear the right way to acquire customers with Cube and Mayfield on TechCrunch Live

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Christina Ross co-founded the company in 2018 in a bid to provide a solution to CFOs who rely on spreadsheets but could benefit from modern data analysis, reporting, and collaboration. Want to get feedback on your pitch during the show? Pitch Practice is back! Tweet at me , and I’ll be sure to ask your questions.

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MessageGears, a cloud customer engagement platform, raises $62M

TechCrunch

Accucast, where he served as CTO after leaving Delta, struggled with this as it pitched software and services for email marketing. The solution, he came to believe, was a hybrid approach — one that directly accesses brands’ first-party data instead of relying on cloud data syncs. .

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

TechCrunch

Altana , which bagged $100 million in venture capital last October, uses an AI system to connect to and learn from logistics and business-to-business data — creating a shared view of supply chain networks. But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum.

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With $21M in funding, Code Ocean aims to help researchers replicate data-heavy science

TechCrunch

It’s important for replication purposes that data analysis — just like any other scientific technique — be done exactly the same way. That, at least, is the pitch Code Ocean offers for its platform and “Compute Capsules.”

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Startup Trends from YCombinator's Demo Day

Tomasz Tunguz

In addition to the pitches themselves, the types of companies presenting forbear trends in the startup world more broadly. This increase in activity seems to be driven by advances in data analysis for drug discovery and novel sensors. I’ve been to many YC Demo Days and I always look forward to them.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis). Or so runs the pitch.)

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