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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

“We raised $3M in late 2020. “We raised $3M in late 2020. Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium?

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NBA All-Star Chris Paul joins digital media startup Greenfly’s growth round

TechCrunch

Greenfly’s latest funding round has a new face: Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul joined as a strategic investor and partner in the company, which developed digital media flow management software. He considers Greenfly “instant access to a media gallery” that he can share on his social media accounts.

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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

TechCrunch

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

TechCrunch

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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The Ultimate Guide To Social Recruiting

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Since the pandemic first hit in 2020, it has shuttered offices and industries had to adapt on the fly to continue working remotely. Yes, I am talking about social media, its massive reach, and one form of recruiting that has shot into the limelight – Social Recruiting. What is social recruiting?

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Singapore-based Raena gets $9M Series A for its pivot to skincare and beauty-focused social commerce

TechCrunch

Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia.

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Social commerce startup Kapu, by ex-Jumia executive, comes out of stealth with $8M funding

TechCrunch

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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