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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

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Bobbie’s growth snowballed after caregivers sought new sources of baby formula during the nationwide shortage in 2022. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. million in 2022. million in 2022 to $5 million in 2023. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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TikTok Hopes Startups Can Breathe Life Into Its Shopping Struggles

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Live Shopping is an integral part of the “social commerce” phenomenon – a general term for ecommerce experiences within which customers don’t even have to leave social media platforms to buy items – but other tech companies like Meta, as well as TikTok, have struggled with it in the US and Europe so far. A Mountain to Climb.

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Down bad

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— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) June 18, 2022. — Molly White (@molly0xFFF) June 16, 2022. Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. Crypto payment platform Nume raised $2 million in a pre-seed round led by Sequoia India.

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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

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The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Smart Audio – A Lucrative Platform… If You Figure Out How To Leverage It

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Neither Google nor Amazon offer ads on their platforms. However, just like the early days of the Internet, when Google’s search engine could be fooled with bogus backlinks and content laden with repetitive keywords, some entrepreneurs are trying to game smart audio platforms, in the hopes of engaging smart speaker users.

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GrubMarket gobbles up $120M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation to take on the grocery supply chain

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We are trying to consolidate the American food supply chain through software technologies, while also trying to find the best solutions in this space.” Longer term, the plan will be to look at an IPO provisionally filing the paperwork by summer 2022, Xu added. software platform.

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A Research Team Plans to Merge AI with Human Brain Cells

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Associate Professor Adeel Razi, who is leading the group, says that the project “merges the fields of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create programmable biological computing platforms” He predicts that the capabilities of this new technology “may eventually surpass the performance of existing, purely silicon-based hardware.”