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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

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. “Even though brands were marking up their retail price at 75% to 80% margins, they were still making only around 8% to 10% profits and losing money due to high inventory wastage or going out of stock. They] struggled with … opacity due to multiple middlemen and their manufacturers being thousands of miles away.”

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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Ghost is coming out of stealth Tuesday with its approach to excess inventory with a marketplace approach that enables brands and retailers to buy, sell and price that inventory in a discreet, efficient and sustainable way. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods.

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

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Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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Cobalt launches from beta with a $2.8M seed to help creators launch products

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For those who want to design a custom product, like a tech-free children’s entertainment system , it costs $1000 to get the product designed through Cobalt. Creators can use Cobalt’s marketplace to connect with over 250 vetted experts in fields like design, sourcing, manufacturing, engineering and business. In Cobalt’s $2.8

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Extra Crunch roundup: China’s new data privacy law, fractional farming, debt vs. equity

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What China’s new data privacy law means for US tech firms. It’s not just venture capitalists and Big Tech who are beefing up their presence in the region. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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Arive raises $20M for an instant delivery service beyond groceries and essentials

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Beyond that, white label services — where Arive might sell its backend technology and delivery infrastructure to third-party retailers to build their own instant delivery services — is another area that the company is considering, Fries said. Balderton is fortunate to be backing arive as it scales rapidly across Europe.”.

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Covid-19 Accelerates The Need for Retail, Manufacturing Supply Chains To Adapt

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The ongoing disruption to critical supply chains in both the manufacturing and retail space has seen businesses having to respond quickly, turning to data, analytics, and new technologies to better predict and manage ‘real-time’ business disruptions. . Companies are also shifting their technology investments. Brent Biddulph: .

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