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Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds Feb 08, 2022

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Endgame connects the dots between product usage and sales opportunities to put employees in the driver's seat of the software they like to use instead of a top-down approach.

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Bumble makes its first acquisition with deal for French Gen Z dating app, Fruitz Feb 08, 2022

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Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications.

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GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech Feb 07, 2022

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Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles.

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Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users Feb 07, 2022

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A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores.

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No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery Feb 04, 2022

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Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said.

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Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game Feb 04, 2022

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Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3 billion company was paved in real data from images, text, voice and video.

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Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service Feb 03, 2022

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Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code.

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Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service Feb 03, 2022

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Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures.

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Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop Feb 02, 2022

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Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. The president and Congress have both been pushing to open the so-called right to repair.

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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’ Feb 02, 2022

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Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate.

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