Nektar.ai exits stealth mode to plug CRM data leakages • TechCrunch

</p><p id="speakable-summary">A lot of important data gets lost along the sales pipeline because sales teams use multiple tools, including email, Zoom and WhatsApp, to talk with buyers. <a target="_blank" href="https://nektar.ai/"…

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PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden  • TechCrunch

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Does economic and geopolitical instability affect your startup’s TAM? • TechCrunch

</p><p id="speakable-summary">Startups and their investors love to talk about big markets and how they are going to go about tackling them. Total addressable market, or TAM, refers to the dollar…

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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

Proposed E.U. rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study. The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published…

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Open-source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M

</p><p id="speakable-summary"><a target="_blank" href="https://bitwarden.com/" rel="noopener">Bitwarden</a>, an open-source password manager for enterprises and consumers, has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by PSG, with participation form Battery Ventures.…

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Solar-powered carmaker Lightyear raises $85M and gears up for production

</p><p id="speakable-summary"><a target="_blank" href="https://lightyear.one/" rel="noopener">Lightyear</a>, a Dutch startup developing a long-range solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €86 million ($85 million) as it prepares to begin production of…

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Cultivated Biosciences wants to make plant-based dairy ‘feel’ more like the real McCoy

</p><p id="speakable-summary">The vegan food market was pegged as a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/05/30/2452673/0/en/Vegan-Food-Market-Size-to-Worth-Around-USD-65-4-Bn-by-2030.html" rel="noopener">$27 billion industry last year</a>, a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. This hasn’t…

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Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

</p><p id="speakable-summary"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tailor.tech/" rel="noopener">Tailor</a>, a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and <a target="_blank" href="https://globalbrains.com/en/"…

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

</p><p id="speakable-summary">Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine, to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name…

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Have you marked down your portfolio yet? You are running out of time to hide

</p><p id="speakable-summary">To mark down your portfolio or not mark down your portfolio? That is a question many venture capitalists are grappling with right now. But first, what does that mean?…

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

</p><p id="speakable-summary">This February, Africa and emerging market-focused <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/nestcoin-raises-6-45m-pre-seed-to-accelerate-crypto-and-web3-adoption-in-africa-and-frontier-markets/" rel="noopener">Nestcoin</a> raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club…

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