IT総合 Brinc’s Lemur 2 straps on blue strobes and is ready for action
Drone developer Brinc today showed off its newest drone, designed to help cops and others who care about public safety d...
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Gable’s $12M Series A deck
It seems like only yesterday that I wrote about Gable’s $12 million Series A, but it was, in fact, two days ago. T...
IT総合 Gable raises the roof (and $12M) for better remote working options
Remote working options and workplace flexibility can be a bit of a head-scratcher for employees and employers alike, but...
IT総合 Mapping out the future of AR, ThirdEye is taking on Google and Microsoft in real-life scenarios
It takes a particular kind of chutzpah go up against the behemoths, especially when it comes to AR glasses. We already h...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008
There’s a pretty decent chance you’ve heard of a little company called Uber. It was a Crunchies finalist bac...
IT総合 Source.ag raises $23M to raise the bar on raising crops with AI
Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help...
IT総合 Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate
Startups are essentially machines that build MVPs (minimum viable products) that help answer questions and gradually de-...
IT総合 How to think about your competitor slide for your pitch deck
“We don’t have competitors,” some founders say. Or they might downplay how big a threat their competit...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Gaming monetization company Incymo AI’s $850K seed deck
If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-g...
IT総合 VivaCity raises at $42M valuation to make US cities safer, starting with New York
Around 39,000 people were killed in motor vehicle incidents in the USA in 2020 — and 6,200 of those deaths were pe...
IT総合 When fundraising, anchor your company with the ‘why now?’ slide
When talking to investors, you’re answering the what (product), why (mission), where (if relevant) and how (strate...
IT総合 Funga wants to accelerate carbon capture using belowground fungal biodiversity
Funga claims to be the first company to leverage nature’s power of carbon removal, by focusing on restoring belowg...
IT総合 Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster
In 2024, a number of new EU regulations are expected to come into force, which will tighten the obligation of electric v...
IT総合 Targeted at commercial and military, hydrogen-powered drones are coming
The last time hydrogen-laden flying vessels zipped around the heavens didn’t end all that well, but that isn’...
IT総合 For startups, ‘we haven’t spent a penny on marketing’ isn’t always a good thing
My heart sinks when I talk to a startup founder who proudly declares having a customer base that’s grown to 1,000 ...
IT総合 How to think about your business model as part of a VC pitch
Startups usually run at a deficit while designing and building the product. But companies are designed to make money, an...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Spinach.io’s $6M seed deck
Back in August, our own Ron Miller covered the $6 million seed round of Spinach, a company that’s building out its...
IT総合 DJI’s Mini 2 SE ultraportable drone takes to the skies
It’s a couple of years since DJI first launched its Mavic Mini, and last year it brought the Mini 3 Pro. It’...
IT総合 Laser-focused on creativity, Glowforge adds AI image generation
We’ve all had a lot of fun with creating game assets, odd selfies, custom stock images and dubious nudes, and it w...
IT総合 What do investors need from your problem slide?
Throw half a dozen entrepreneurs in a room together with a whiteboard, and they’ll be able to come up with a thous...
IT総合 Startups, here’s how you can make hardware without ruining the planet
Nobody starts a hardware company with the express goal of destroying as much of the planet as they possibly can. Walking...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Laoshi’s $570K angel deck
Most of the pitch deck teardowns to date (here’s a handy list of the more than 30 we have published so far) have b...
IT総合 How Fictiv is making hardware manufacturing more like building software
Over the past few years, we’ve spoken with hundreds of hardware startups, and there’s one phrase that has be...
IT総合 Needles to say, Ghostline drags tattoo stencil making ‘inkto’ the current millennium
Some of us are fans of dip-n-rip tattoos with very little planning. Who cares, it’s not like tattoos are permanent...
IT総合 The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck
When a startup graduates and becomes a “real” company, with hundreds of employees and the first inklings of ...
IT総合 Plugable’s new dock turns your tablet or phone into a workstation
Laptops and tablets are getting better and more powerful by the day but our fingers aren’t getting any more precis...
IT総合 Atomos tows a $16M load of funding to create tugboats in space
You may not have known that space needs tugboats, but now you do — and Atomos Space just closed a $16.2 million Se...
IT総合 What’s going on in the Dutch startup scene?
I find something very intriguing about members of a royal family working to further the startup scene for a particular c...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Orange’s $2.5M seed deck
Earlier this week, I wrote a story about EV charging company Orange and how it is taking a different approach to putting...
IT総合 Orange you glad this company is making it easier to get EV charging in your building
One of the biggest bottlenecks in the EV rollout is charging infrastructure. There’s no shortage of companies taki...