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Charles raises $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp in Europe Jul 20, 2022

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Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash.

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Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions Jul 20, 2022

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The pandemic has triggered more demand for online shopping and fueled many smaller retailers to establish their own online offerings.

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X1’s income-based credit card is finally available to the public Jul 19, 2022

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The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups like locked in a fierce competition to differentiate their offerings through branding, rewards programs and even crypto compatibility.

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This niche cryptographic technique could transform privacy in web3 Jul 19, 2022

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Privacy is a core concern in crypto. Once you know a crypto wallet address corresponds to a certain individual, you can track all the transactions that individual has made through their wallet on any public blockchain, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Some cryptographers think the solution to crypto’s privacy concerns lies in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a […]

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Canvas Medical, ‘the Tesla of EMRs,’ raises a $24 million Series B round Jul 18, 2022

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When Andrew Hines started Canvas Medical in 2015 he couldn’t have predicted that telehealth would go from niche to norm or that a pandemic would inspire entrepreneurs to launch a new fleet of digital health startups that needed fresh infrastructure.

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Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify Jul 15, 2022

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Medusa aims to offer APIs beyond the standard marketplaces ones for merchants to build more advanced features like fulfillment, subscriptions or a wholesale channel.

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Meet the all-electric RV startup steered by Tesla alumni Jul 15, 2022

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What started as a pet project to electrify food trucks in the San Francisco Bay area — an enterprise inspired by the cacophony of generators that greeted Ben Parker every day during his lunch break at Tesla — has evolved into a much larger, complex and potentially more lucrative undertaking.

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Kindly Health makes hormonal health care more approachable Jul 14, 2022

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Hormonal healthcare can be intimidating, since it touches on the most intimate parts of our lives. Kindly Health wants to make it accessible to more people, with a combination of at-home diagnostic tests (including semen tests and tests for polycystic ovary syndrome), telehealth consultations and supplements.

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Deci lands $25M for tech that makes AI models more efficient Jul 14, 2022

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Deci, a startup company with 50 employees who are developing a platform to build and optimize AI-powered systems, today announced that it closed a $25 million Series B financing round led by Insight Partners.

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DeltaStream secures cash to build real-time streaming databases Jul 13, 2022

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DeltaStream, which is developing a streaming database platform geared toward enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in a seed round led by New Enterprise Associates.

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