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The TechCrunch Prime 3
- Someone’s having a good day: Jasper, which calls itself an “AI content material” developer, raised its first spherical of funding ever — and an enormous one at that, at $125 million, to offer it a $1.5 billion valuation, Kyle reviews. It additionally comes as the corporate is within the means of buying a grammar- and style-checking platform, Outwrite.
- Turning renters into owners: Christine gives an replace on Landis, which raised $40 million in Collection B funding. The corporate buys houses on behalf of shoppers whereas additionally offering a patch for them to construct up their credit score and finally get a mortgage on the house they hire.
- So, Apple had an event: Romain offers you a have a look at the brand new entry-level iPad that he says seems similar to the iPad Professional. Alas, it’s additionally dearer, however you get a bigger display screen. Priorities, amirite?
Startups and VC
Enterprise capital funds specializing in niche sectors are “in,” in response to Connie, and Will Ventures is right here for it. Christine reviews that the low-flying, Boston-based enterprise outfit simply tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million due to its method of investing in sports activities applied sciences with the assistance of its group of athlete backers who assist promote and develop the portfolio corporations.
Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing platform that’s been described because the Airbnb for vehicles, will expand to Australia earlier than the top of the yr, Rebecca reviews. Native automotive house owners in all main cities, together with Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, can be part of the waitlist on Turo’s web site.
Okay, superb, have a couple of extra:
Information Drops from Disrupt
Crypto accelerator: Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon dishes to Anita a couple of “Crypto Startup School,” an inaugural accelerator program that may kick off subsequent yr in Los Angeles. He additionally offered extra information on the agency’s current big investment in our favorite controversial founder, Adam Neumann.
Stealthy startup: Each Harri and Tim sat in on Ingrid‘s interview with Marc Lore, who disclosed a new sports ticketing startup that he’s engaged on known as Leap Platforms and offered some insight on the Diapers.com sale to Amazon, calling it a “compelled transaction.”
On cloud 9: Netflix VP of Gaming Mike Verdu spoke to Amanda about opening a brand new gaming studio in SoCal and getting into cloud gaming.
Startup Battlefield
It’s Disruuuuuupt! We’re so excited we are able to barely sit nonetheless. Right here’s the primary batch of Battlefield corporations that pitched onstage on this superb California Tuesday — and in case you’re curious, Neesha revealed the 20 companies that are presenting on the Disrupt Stage earlier as we speak. Right here’s the primary batch that pitched as we speak:
NXgenPort: A Saint Paul, Minnesota–primarily based startup that’s seeking to remotely monitor most cancers sufferers in between physician visits utilizing a port catheter.
Omneky: Leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 fashions to generate visuals and textual content that can be utilized in adverts for social platforms.
Circular Genomics: Claims its new type of genetic testing can determine which medicines will work for a affected person in a fraction of that point.
Anthill: Connects frontline staff to firm sources by way of textual content messaging.
AppMap: Was constructed on the straightforward concept that builders ought to be capable of see the habits of software program as they write it to allow them to stop issues when the software program runs.
Mother Honestly: New commerce providing goals to offer workers extra freedom in the case of caregiving spending.
Digest.ai: Past flash playing cards to create an AI dialogue assistant that we are able to all carry round on our telephones.
Swap Robotics: Paving the best way for electrical photo voltaic vegetation cuts and sidewalk snow plowing.
Hormona: Hopes to encourage folks with intervals to just do that — add hormone-monitoring to their quantified well being combine.
Staax: Thinks peer-to-peer funds can onboard a brand new technology of inventory buyers.
How you can mix PLG and enterprise gross sales to enhance the funnel and drive bottom-line development
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Services that promote themselves sound nice, however product-led development (PLG) startups nonetheless launch advertising campaigns and rent gross sales groups.
Combining PLG with conventional sales-led development efforts can increase retention and acquisition to the subsequent degree, says Kate Ahlering, chief income officer at Calendly.
On this TC+ visitor publish, Ahlering lays out a number of methods that may assist groups implement a “hybrid GTM technique,” which incorporates solutions for leveraging PLG information and optimizing success metrics.
Three extra from the TC+ staff:
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Huge Tech Inc.
We’ve got much more for you from Apple’s shock October occasion. Brian takes a have a look at the corporate’s new M2 iPad Pro, which obtained a refresh and arrives October 26. He talks about chips and inches, and a pencil…you get the image.
Much more Apple so that you can chunk into:
Since we’ve got all of the Battlefield corporations in your studying pleasure, listed here are just some extra:
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