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Social shopping-focused Chums announces $3.5M raise ahead of YC Demo Day

TechCrunch

With Y Combinator Demo Day kicking off tomorrow morning, startups in the current batch are hurrying to make a little news before they show off their recent growth to investors. Add Chums to the mix. Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

I’m keen for you to let us know a bit more about what that looks like. You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. Can you tell us about what you are doing and why these changes have come about? For us, it was not a good use of money.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Burst is the first DeFi-powered bank for Generation Z – we use DeFi to help our users earn more. “Skipper is a new network for hotels and resorts that helps them run their tech stack, acquire customers, and create new revenue streams.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

TechCrunch

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence. It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000. Tableau offers its software for free for students.

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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

TechCrunch

million seed round before Demo Day. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. Odiggo is part of the current YC Summer batch and has secured a $2.2