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Pitch Deck Teardown: Doola’s $1M strategic investment deck

Doola's pitch deck does a few things extremely well, but the problem is, it leaves a ton out, too. Here's why that won't...
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Forta raises $55M to help parents look after their kids with autism

Forta Health aims to democratize access to healthcare by utilizing AI tools, including large language models, to empower...
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A new dawn for maker tech startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to ...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Rypplzz’ $3M seed deck

This week, we're taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced "ripples"), a spatial technology startup that re...
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CES has almost fully succeeded in chasing sex-tech off its show floors

CES has long been a launchpad for innovation and cutting-edge technology. However, at this year’s event, there was...
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Makera is releasing a baby sibling of its Carvera desktop 4-axis mill

In the depth of the pandemic, 500 or so backers chipped in to make Makera’s Carvera Kickstarter campaign, a fully ...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Qortex’s $10M Seed deck

The pitch deck video analytics firm Qortex used to raise its $10M seed round has a lot missing, but it does get some thi...
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A postcard from Las Vegas and CES

This week Devin, Kirsten and I have been running around in Las Vegas for CES to figure out what’s going on in the world ...
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Coast Runner launching a $2,400 CNC mill soon

If CES is anything to go by, 2024 is shaping up to be a great year for makers and hobbyists. I loved taking a closer loo...
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Smart pepper spray startup 444 is back at CES with a major partnership deal

A year ago, at CES, I broke out the snark-hammer at 444, a startup that was trying to make a ‘smart’ pepper ...
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MMGuardian enters a crowded kid-safe-phone market

If every dumb idea I ever had as a teenager was permanently captured on the internet, I’d be in for a rainbow of e...
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EyeQ takes a fresh look at video call eye contact

Video calls, while essential, often lack the naturalness of in-person conversations, causing fatigue and reduced engagem...
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ChefPaw makes it easy to cook healthy food for your fluffy friend

ChefPaw is an machine designed to prepare homemade dog food. The appliance aims to provide an alternative to store-bough...
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Moustrap wants to bring some loving luxury to your mousing about

The humble computer mouse hasn’t seen a huge amount of innovation since it was invented – and let’s be honest, it isn’t ...
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Siri needs to get a lot smarter, and quickly

Siri seems to be lagging the competition in this department by a country mile. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
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Hestiia wants you to mine for crypto to heat your house

It’s not news that crypto mining takes a lot of energy. Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours a...
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Taking a closer look at the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe since it showed up on Kickstarter last year, and I was ps...
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This startup is trying to bring T9-like text input to your TV

Some technologies make so much sense that they just won’t disappear. T9 — the old text input from our trusty...
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Zoe Care uses existing Wi-Fi signals to detect falls in care homes

Fall detection and autonomy for the elderly is front-and-center at CES in Las Vegas this year. Cherish Health introduced...
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My Memo adds some pill-zazz to automatic medicine dispensers

Every few years, a new startup takes a stab at automatic pill dispensers to help with drug adherence and to prevent peop...
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Nowatch adds watch faces to a fitness tracker that vows not to interrupt you

I first ran into Nowatch at CES last year, and its founders have been hard at work to evolve the product over the past y...
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Accesibility startup Augmental is working on head tracking and ‘silent speech’

Imagine a world where you can control your smartphone or laptop just by moving your head or subtly shifting your tongue ...
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I really wanted to hate the $2,000 earbuds I tried at CES

Look, anyone who is saying they’re going to start selling a pair of $2,000 studio monitor-quality in-ear headphone...
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Got a UTI? Vivoo brings the answer to that question closer to home

The trend we noticed at last year’s CES continues: Startups are really curious about your bodily fluids. Vivoo is ...
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Serenity takes a full-home radar approach to fall detection

Serenity, the result of a fruitful partnership with Alarm.com, is an innovative fall-detection system that does away wit...
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This startup bets that looking like Bane is the future of gaming

We previewed Skyted’s voice-capturing mask last week, but when I came across the startup at CES 2024, I had to che...
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Neoplants shows off its Neo P1 bio-engineered air-purifying plant

At CES 2024, French startup Neoplants is showing off its progress with its houseplants that work as air purifiers design...
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CES brings us another wave of overpriced ‘smart’ cookware

Wandering around the CES preview events, it’s clear that AI and other smart tech is coming to toasters, grills and...
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Rest in peace, 2023 startups — Here’s to 2024

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Hello, and welcome to the very last Start...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Pepper Bio’s $6.5M seed deck

This week, we are taking a closer look at Pepper Bio's seed pitch deck that landed the company $6.5 million. © 2023 Tech...
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