IT総合 Do you need a deck to raise from VCs? Not always
For all the focus on pitch decks (and more than 80 articles on the topic), you’d think that it’s impossible ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Artie sidesteps the app stores by putting high-quality games in your browser
When you play a game, how do you play it? Monopoly or Settlers of Catan around the dining table? Mario Kart on your Nint...
IT総合 Review: Xbloom makes perfect pour-over so you don’t have to
Coffee nerds love the ceremony of making a good cup of coffee, but once you get advanced enough, things get really compl...
IT総合 Smoakland is testing a loophole to sell cannabis by credit card
What do you do when you have a very successful and popular product (marijuana) that is legal in some places, but federal...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Northspyre’s $25 million Series B deck
Back in February, Northspyre announced it had raised $25 million to bring costs under control for big building projects....
IT総合 Seed funding finds fertile ground with Mate Fertility
Fertility treatment is a huge industry, but traditionally it has been very geographically and demographically limited. U...
IT総合 When life gives you carbon, make Carbonaide
Concrete. Ubiquitous. A mainstay of the construction industry — over 10 billion cubic meters of concrete are used ...
IT総合 How Mindbloom’s CEO sees the future of psychedelic mental health
“What was something amazing that happened to you this weekend,” Mindbloom’s CEO Dylan Benyon asked me, less than 30 seco...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M seed deck
Hardware startups have a serious disadvantage over SaaS companies: Once you ship, it’s somewhere in the hard-to-im...
IT総合 How Fellow bootstrapped for 8 years to build a coffee empire
A decade ago, a little coffee company launched a Kickstarter campaign for a product called Duo, a coffee maker that’s th...
IT総合 This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier
When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area?...
IT総合 Foiled again: Candela raises another $20M to set course for the future of ferries
Swedish company Candela will launch its 30-passenger commercial hydrofoil shuttle, the P-12, this summer — the ves...
IT総合 10 tips for de-risking hardware products
Manufacturing real-life, tangible objects that you can touch is often a lot riskier than developing software. Once you...
IT総合 You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think
There’s a persistent theory in hardware that manufacturing overseas is the cheaper/better/more efficient option. You man...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: StudentFinance’s $41M Series A deck
There’s no shortage of “upskilling” startups out there, but it’s rare to see one raise a $41 mil...
IT総合 The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green
The World Economic Forum says that so-called ‘Scope 3 emissions,’ – or CO2 in supply chains – c...
IT総合 AG5 throws a lifeline to a manufacturing industry drowning in spreadsheets
You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount o...
IT総合 Daily Crunch: HSBC buys Silicon Valley Bank UK, says ‘customers should not notice any changes’
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IT総合 Aether wants to shift you from blood diamonds to gems pulled from thin air
Diamonds: carbon, transparent, expensive, symbolic of love and commitment — and many of them come dripping with hu...
IT総合 Synthesis Institute collapse is a major setback for US psychedelic therapy
The Amsterdam-based psychedelic retreat and practitioner training provider Synthesis Institute has filed for bankruptcy ...
IT総合 Daily Crunch: Silicon Valley Bank goes bust — regulators take control of $175B+ in deposits
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IT総合 Rethink rethinks mobility and logistics with new €50M fund
Rethink Ventures just announced a €50 million specialist fund focused on mobility, automotive and logistics. With keywor...
IT総合 Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products
Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. One of the core challe...
IT総合 Everything you know about computer vision may soon be wrong
Computer vision could be a lot faster and better if we skip the concept of still frames and instead directly analyze the...
IT総合 Daily Crunch: Bach to the future – Forthcoming Apple Music Classical app will feature 5M tracks
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: MiO Marketplace’s $550K angel deck
Welcome to our 40th Pitch Deck Teardown! Goodness, time flies.
Of those 40, just three were angel rounds, so today, we&#...
IT総合 Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future
When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. The money to ma...
IT総合 Roami takes on Airbnb with creativity, grit and $14M
It takes a special kind of gumption to wake up in the morning and say ‘you know what? I can do better than Airbnb,...
IT総合 If you have more than one business model, you don’t have a business model
To be successful, a business needs to have a plan for revenue in the short term and profitability in the long. Early-sta...
IT総合 Vigilante hackers fix Black Ops III, and other TC news
Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where I’m standing in for Darrell while he’s honeymooning with his l...