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Apple and Huish devise clever pricing model for divers with Oceanic+ app

Oceanic+, developed by Huish Outdoors, made a splash at this year’s Apple Fall Event in September, when Apple pull...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Juro’s $23M Series B deck

Back in January, Natasha covered Juro’s Series B round, which added $23 million to its coffers. Juro aims to put a...
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Hearing aids may be the surprise holiday gift category nobody saw coming

Back in August, the FDA announced it was making a big change in the world of hearing aids: From October onwards, hearing...
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Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B...
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Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse

All electric, everywhere, all of the time; that’s one of the many climate mantras. Induction stovetops take a lot ...
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How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made

If you are running R&D at a large appliance manufacturer, you have a challenge. You typically make products in enorm...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck

Syneroid recently raised a $500,000 round of funding to bring something halfway between microchips and dog collars to ma...
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I guess you can (officially) use your fancy Canon camera as a webcam studio now

When the pandemic slammed into our shores a couple of years ago, many of us were shoo-ed inside, doomed to endless Zoom ...
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Electric Era wants to put an EV charger in convenience store parking lot near you

Before starting Electric Era, Quincy Lee was one of the chief mechanical engineers at Space X. He got bored of doing spa...
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5Mins makes your employees better, a few minutes at a time

If you’ve ever had to sit through corporate training videos while you feel your will to live slowly ebb out of eve...
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How ButcherBox bootstrapped to $600M in revenue

Some of the best companies only come about because they found a problem worth solving. For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-fou...
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Why ButcherBox built two dry ice factories during the pandemic

As a startup, when you’re trying to stay as lean as possible, outsourcing is the name of the game; if you can get ...
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Wii? More like Woof, as video games for dogs become a thing

File this in the “did not see that coming” category; JoiPaw, an U.K.-based startup, is building a series of ...
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I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks. These are the most common mistakes

Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review ...
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Darkroom brings high-end photo smarts to your iCloud Photo Library

It’s been around for a hot minute, but Darkroom just got a pretty major update that makes it a lot more interestin...
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Bruvi’s new coffee pods bio-degrade faster with the power of enzymes

Bruvi‘s B-pods take a novel approach that (probably correctly) assumes consumers are too lazy to return their alum...
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Smartex sews up $24.7M to put smarter eyes on textile manufacturing

A lot of things might spring to mind when you hear “fashion,” but taking care of the planet generally isn&#8...
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Privilège Ventures launches $20M fund investing in women-led startups

Lugano, Switzerland-based venture capital fund Privilège Ventures just launched its fourth fund. The CHF 20 million (jus...
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On average, CTOs make more than CEOs at early-stage startups

New data from Kruze Consulting’s salary data from more than 200 startups show that CTOs, on average, are on higher...
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Heylo wants to help you build your own little social circles for events

If you’ve worked at large tech companies, you’ve probably seen that a bunch of groups show up, whether offic...
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Contraline erects $7.2M for contraceptive implants for men

The cervix industry has had implants to prevent pregnancy since the late 1960s, but there hasn’t exactly been stif...
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Human Impact Capital is a new $50M fund investing in social impact startups

Redstone and EnjoyVenture have combined forces to create Human Impact Capital (HIC), Germany’s first dedicated scial imp...
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Make 4 promises to hire better staff for your startup team

“When I hire someone, I make two promises. And I ask for two promises in return,” said Paul English — curren...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Project’s $125k pre-seed deck

I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend ...
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Artiphon releases Orba 2, to make music-making even more accessible

The original Orba was a curious little baseball-sized device that invited people who couldn’t play a triangle if t...
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Intropic helps single-use plastics decompose from the inside out

Plastics are great for so many things, but they stay around for an awfully long time. Intropic leaps to the rescue with ...
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Sugar Lab buys back its tech to take 3D-printed foods mainstream

The 3D printing world can print in concrete, plastic, metal and pretty much everything else that starts off gooey and tu...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Supliful’s $1M seed deck

I don’t typically critique decks for fundraises we didn’t cover on TechCrunch, but for Supliful, I had to ma...
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OG App, what exactly was your end game here?

A couple of weeks ago, Apple removed the OG App from its app store, and today Google followed suit, booting the app from...
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Great, now the AI is coming for your grandma’s recipes as well!

We’ve seen AIs create music, pornography and art. The Estonian startup Yummy started off creating a meal-kit start...
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