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Magnets and water net Magnotherm $6.9M seed round to kill hazardous refrigerants

TechCrunch

But beverage coolers are just the tech demo: “We are really building a bigger box for supermarket cooling cabinets,” co-CEO Timur Sirman said. Magnets and water net Magnotherm $6.9M This is where we can actually reduce energy costs and maintenance costs significantly.”

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YC-backed Pangea discusses growth, fundraising ahead of demo day

TechCrunch

Pangea , a marketplace startup that wants to connect college freelancers and companies in need of digital help, is seeing its growth rate accelerate as it races toward the impending Y Combinator demo day. The result is a model that might resonate with anyone familiar with Fiverr, and may help the company more rapidly expand its net revenue.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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Finance NLP releases new ABSA demo app and BGE embeddings model

John Snow Labs

The latest version of the library comes with a better embedding model and a new demo app for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis BGE Sentence Embedding Model The new model adds to the library’s capabilities to create vector representations of financial texts aimed at performing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. Just like last year’s batches, about half of the companies in the W22 batch (where YC’s Standard Deal comes to full effect for the first time) are based outside of the United States. As usual, the U.S.

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The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch

TechCrunch

Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. ” It’s too early to tell when Airhart will reach product-market fit, but its proposal to “make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store” did sound like a strong audience fit for YC’s Demo Day. – Haje Kamps.

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We’re still talking about Y Combinator valuations

TechCrunch

As The TechCrunch team sat through hundreds of startup pitches during YC’s biannual Demo Day, the backdrop of change was certainly noted. It’s a conversation that bubbles up around Demo Day time and time again, but given the downturn, some expected to see valuations that they think are more realistic for businesses only a few months old.