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    Samsung’s AirTags rival, the Galaxy SmartTag+, arrives to help you find lost items via AR – TechCrunch

    Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag+, the company’s competitor to Apple’s forthcoming lost-item finder known as AirTags, has now arrived. Samsung had first announced its Tile competitor...

    Understanding how fundraising terms can affect early-stage startups – TechCrunch

    You’ve got a great idea and a strong founding team. So now what? When VCs come knocking, it’s important to make sure you’re well...

    Andium is watching oil fields for emissions and just got money from the biggest oil companies to do it – TechCrunch

    Andium, a company focused on remote field monitoring of assets including oil and gas wells has just raised some not-insignificant cash in an investment...

    Industry experts bullish on $500M KKR investment in Box, but stock market remains skeptical – TechCrunch

    When Box announced it was getting a $500 million investment from private equity firm KKR this morning, it was hard not to see it...

    Quiq acquires Snaps to create a combined customer messaging platform – TechCrunch

    At first glance, Quiq and Snaps might sound like similar startups — they both help businesses talk to their customers via text messaging and...

    Apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 – TechCrunch

    Do you have what it takes to be a Startup Battlefield champion? All you need is a killer pitch, an MVP, nerves of steel...

    Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers – TechCrunch

    Sophie Zhou Novati worked as a senior engineer at Facebook and then Nextdoor, where she struggled to hire great engineers for her team. Frustrated, she...

    Education non-profit Edraak ignored a student data leak for two months – TechCrunch

    Edraak, an online education non-profit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently...

    Mercato raises $26M Series A to help smaller grocers compete online – TechCrunch

    The pandemic upended the way people shop for their everyday needs, including groceries. Online grocery sales in the U.S. are expected to reach 21.5%...

    Private chef parties at home startup Yhangry raises $1.5M Seed from VC angels and Ollie Locke – TechCrunch

    There’s an “uber for everything” these days and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats...

    Yext co-founder unveils Dynascore, which dynamically synchronizes music and video – TechCrunch

    Howard Lerman, the co-founder and CEO of Yext, has a new startup called Wonder Inventions, which is officially launching its first product today —...

    How to get into a startup accelerator – TechCrunch

    Advice from Neal Sáles-Griffin, managing director of Techstars Chicago Greg Kumparak @grg / 7 hours Should you try to get your company into an accelerator? How far...

    Google Won. So Did Tech.

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.On Monday, the Supreme Court said it...

    Both& introduces a line of D2C transmasculine clothing – TechCrunch

    Historically, the transmasculine community has been neglected by the fashion world. But Both& is a new brand looking to offer clothing tailored specifically for...

    As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Squash Them

    “Saying ‘Oh, there’s locusts in northern Kenya’ doesn’t help at all,” Mr. Cressman said. “We need longitude and latitude coordinates in real time.”Rather than...

    Comet announces $13M Series A for ML model building tool – TechCrunch

    There’s been a lot of investment in machine learning startups recently as companies try to push the notion into a wider variety of endeavors....