Daily Crunch: Amazon cancels charitable donation initiative so it can focus on ‘programs with greater impact’
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Thursday! This week has just flown by, and we’re still reeling from the excitement that a company is leaning into compliments. Compliments? In this day and age? Is there actually hope for […]
Copilot lands $10M to help service businesses build digital customer experiences
Copilot, a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by YC Continuity and Lachy Groom at a $100 million post-money valuation. Co-founder and CEO Marlon Misra said that the funds […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal’s $1M seed deck
There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Still, judging from the number of new tools that come to market on a regular basis, it seems that people are frustrated with the available tools. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool […]
Connect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023
Successful startup founders do not spring fully formed from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. It takes time to educate yourself, learn essential skills and acquire a smart, connected network. Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both […]
Dry-cleaning robotics startup Presso pulls in another $8M
In late-2020, Presso pivoted. It made a lot of sense at the time. People weren’t traveling much and therefore weren’t particularly hung up on getting their business attire dry-cleaned. Certainly the hospitality industry — which had been identified as a major potential revenue sort –0 had effectively ground to a screeching halt. Around that time, […]
Fintech in 2022: a story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A
If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. In fact, the three-month period marked the lowest quarter for U.S. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report. But overall, while total fintech funding globally […]
Zitti soaks up some funding sauce so restaurants can manage their food supply chain
Getting a handle on food costs at an independent restaurant is a constant challenge for owners, and there is a long list of startups, like MarginEdge, OneOrder, TouchBistro, PreciTaste, ConverseNow, Fudo, Owner.com, that have stepped with their solutions. Zitti’s app shows food pricing insights. Image Credits: Zitti Zitti’s co-founder Dante DiCicco is coming at this […]
Link raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments
People are addicted to credit cards — and it’s no wonder, given the lucrative rewards that many of them offer. But for merchants, credit cards tend to be less appealing. That’s because they’re on the hook for interchange fees, or transaction fees a merchant’s bank must pay whenever a customer uses a card to make […]
India’s biggest integrated Housewares & Home Appliances Trade Fair, VIBRANT INDIA 2023 will be organized in Mumbai from January 20 to 22
Mr. Narendra Diwakar, Organizer and Managing Editor of Vibrant India and speakers address press conference in Mumbai More than 500+ exhibitors from India & Abroad are expected to participate in this expo at Nesco Centre, Goregaon (East), Mumbai Highlights:– · Over 30,000 visitors are expected to visit the exhibition · 9th edition of Housewares & […]
Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign
Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who’s helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: How to launch a paid acquisition channel Teach yourself growth marketing: How to set up a landing page […]
