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Markforged acquires Digital Metal for $40M as 3D printing space continues to evolve

Metal and carbon fiber company Markforged (best known for its Digital Forge platform) announced today that it acquired D...
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The end of an era: Nikon pulls the plug on its SLR business, reports suggest

If you’ve spent any time sitting around with grizzled old photography veterans, you’ve probably sat through ...
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Sarcos’ Kiva Allgood and Boston Dynamics’ Robert Playter discuss what it takes to put robots to work

If you thought turning academic research into robots is challenging, you’d be right. Turning academic AI research into p...
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These earbuds give everything but your voice the ‘talk to the hand’ treatment

We’ve had active noise canceling in wireless earbuds for a while, but that mostly benefits the person wearing the ...
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Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. Here’s why

From the sample pitch decks in my pitch deck teardown series, you’d conclude that appendices in pitch decks are ra...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Enduring Planet’s $2.1M seed deck

We’re facing a pretty big climate change challenge, and I’ve long been skeptical about whether venture capit...
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Review: Espresso Display is the ultraportable second monitor for road warriors

After a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2019, the Espresso Display is back with version 2 of its USB-C powered, ...
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Do you claim to care about climate? Let’s talk about what’s on your plate

If you claim to care about climate change, we need to have a word about food. Specifically, about the fantastically unsu...
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Startup founders. Consider your language. Keep it simple.

Research shows that more than half of Americans can’t read very well. Their reading skill is below a sixth-grade l...
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Xiaomi launches smartphone with enormous imaging sensors and Leica optics

With a limited launch in mainland China today, one glance at the new smartphones from Xiaomi leaves little doubt what th...
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Remove that ‘exit strategy’ slide from your pitch deck

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. Your slide dec...
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Without a clear ask, your pitch deck is useless

You’ve brushed off your Keynote skills, you’re giddy that you’re finally going to be able to start pay...
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AI-powered photo stock startup Wirestock lands partnership with Getty Images

As a stock photographer, taking great photos is often only just a tiny part of the job. To run a successful business, ke...
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Sharpen your credit card, the Apple Store is down

At June’s WWDC, Apple launched a slew of new and exciting products, only to mention that they’d be available...
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Visby Medical tests positive for a Series E extension at $1B+ valuation

Medical diagnostics company Visby Medical raised $100 million in a Series E round earlier this year. Today, the company ...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Wilco’s $7 million seed deck

What’s a poor, freshly minted developer to do when they’re out of coding boot camp but don’t have any ...
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Leica’s new camera costs $20,000 and has zero megapixels

Okay, Leica, have a seat, we need to talk for a minute. I know you’re one of the iconic camera brands. I love my L...
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Wondermed pulls $4,600K out of a hole to ply you with ketamine

For those of us who’ve been a little bit wobbly on the mental health front over the past couple of years, there ar...
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Is that a ski coach in your boot, or are you just happy to see me?

It’s like a Fitbit, except you add it to your ski boots to get data-driven tuition to figure out where you’re doing well...
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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of s...
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Daily Crunch: With $153M Series C, LeadSquared becomes India’s newest unicorn

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, sub...
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LG Nova announces its Mission for the Future startup selectees.

In January, I got under the skin of LG Nova — electronics and appliances giant LG’s internal startup incubat...
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Pentaform launches AbacusBasic, the ‘world’s most affordable PC’

Forgive me if I’m over here, in the corner, having vibrant flashbacks to the Commodore 64, my very first computer....
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Ergeon’s $40M Series B deck

Last week, I wrote about Ergeon, the fence-building startup founded by a licensed contractor and the co-founder of Upwor...
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Oh great, just what we need: eau de caffeine

Of all the dumb pitches that crossed my desk today, this one might just take the dewy-eyed prize for “oh good heav...
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Coffee paraphernalia co Fellow brews up a round of funding

If you’re a fan of coffee, spend any time in fancy coffee shops or have a penchant for Kickstarter, you’ll p...
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Can they kick it? Yes, they can: Playermaker tracks athlete performance

If you’re a coach who’s ever thought, “Man, I wish there was a footwear-mounted performance tracker fo...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Lunchbox’s $50 million Series B deck

With more and more people ordering food from home — a trend that gathered momentum at a time when it was safer to eat at...
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Zoom and Enhance (kinda) go from fact to fiction with Picsart’s AI image enhancer

“Can you enhance that?” the CSI detective asks a bespectacled computer nerd, pointing at a six-pixel area of...
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Upwork co-founder launches Ergeon, a startup that builds fences

If you had told me that this week I’d learn about a fence-building company that employs 350 people and raised a to...
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