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TryNow raises $12M to bring try-before-you-buy, Prime Wardrobe as a service to online retailers

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TryNow — which provides technology to online retailers that use Shopify Plus to let their customers receive and try out apparel, return what they don’t want and pay only for what they keep — has raised $12 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its business.

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

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Thought , Tasc , Free Fly Apparel , all make bamboo clothing; and Bite has a bamboo toothbrush to go with its plastic-free toothpastes and flosses. billion market for toilet paper. “The lion’s share of usage number one is toilet paper and number two is paper towels, after that the size of the market really really shrinks.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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After arriving and pouring myself a cup of coffee, I plopped down on a thick leather couch next to Glenn Chin, head of global marketing at Niantic, and Marcus Matthews, a senior producer for All-World, to walk through All-World a day ahead of its release on the Play Store and App Store. The game has over 100,000 courts at present.)

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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“Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, where her climate tech investments span mobility, food and agriculture, clean energy, sustainable apparel and carbon markets. Victoria Beasley — Prelude Ventures. Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer.

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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

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Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. No real people.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

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companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” Among the positions it is hiring for are Real-Time Analyst and Lifecycle Marketing Manager. ” Among the roles it is hiring for are Head of Data Science / Credit, Fraud, & Pricing and Partner Marketing & Enablement.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

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In the last year, online apparel shopping app Shein grew active daily users by 130%, reports Apptopia. “It’s a company with operations and supply chains in China targeting the global market, with nearly no business in China.”. Alex writes that “a16z intends to run defense for crypto in the American, and perhaps global, market.

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