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Daily Crunch: HBO Max is pulling 36 shows this week — Here’s the list
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Tiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America
Rebill differs from legacy providers in that it is targeting medium to large companies, is cloud-based and sold on a subscription basis so customers just have to pay a license fee.
Daily Crunch: Google will unplug its IoT Core service in August 2023
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Highbeam inks $7M to shine light on e-commerce-specific banking needs
By focusing on e-commerce, Highbeam is able to provide a single financial view of the business and help entrepreneurs decide the right cash and credit options.
Daily Crunch: 7 months after emerging from stealth, YC alum Arc secures $20M Series A
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Vividly wants to put some sparkle in your next CPG trade promotion campaign
The company provides tools to manage trade spend from the creation of campaigns to promotion planning, forecasting and deductions management.
Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager
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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support
Gorgias' technology brings all of the channels that shoppers use to contact online stores into one feed for each company.
Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology
The company's three-pronged technology includes creating ideal environment for the shrimp, remote operations management and AI-powered automation to monitor and feed them.
Daily Crunch: Samsung’s vice chairman receives presidential pardon for bribery conviction
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Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment
Positive Food is going after the $34 billion fresh prepared foods market with its take on salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats.
The grocery industry’s shopping list: Inventory management, frictionless checkout, computer vision
Technology advancements in recent years are giving startups a shot at providing grocery stores with e-commerce-like features in a brick-and-mortar setting.
Daily Crunch: Facebook avoids European blackout as regulators squabble over EU-US data transfers
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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds
Venture capital firms continue to raise new funds, at what seems like lightning speed, and two firms stuck out in recent days.
Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M
Farther provides two sets of tools, one for advisors to expand their businesses and one for clients to invest in ways that align with their goals.
Daily Crunch: Spotify Tickets rollout lets concertgoers buy passes for live gigs
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Novel Farms flexes its pork loin ‘muscle’ following future equity investment
The company has already demonstrated that its technology is viable and can make a piece of cultivated meat, and it has plans to introduce the pork loin to restaurants in 2025.
Daily Crunch: WhatsApp extends its unsend time limit to ‘a little over two days’
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ReturnLogic bags new capital to make returning items less of a nightmare
New online shopping habits have made returns a big expense for retailers. ReturnLogic says the underlying problem is really operational deficiencies in the returns process.
Daily Crunch: ‘Winter may be longer’ because unicorns won’t accept down rounds, says SoftBank leader
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