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Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A

TechCrunch

area startup now reports its iOS-only has seen over 5 million installs in its first year, with users primarily in the Gen Z demographic. The startup says that 75% of its users are between the ages of 14 and 18 and 95% of users are between 14 and 21. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus.

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Welcome debuts a smarter city guide app on iOS, backed by $3.5M led by Accel

TechCrunch

But a startup called Welcome thinks that today’s set of tools could be smarter and more personalized to the individuals who use them. You can also leave your own tips for fellow Welcome users, mark the list as a favorite, and add tags. The startup is backed by a $3.5 million places its database. million to date.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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Early-Stage Unicorn Numbers Tail Off In 2023

Crunchbase News

CoreWeave , an AI cloud infrastructure company, raised a $200 million Series B extension in May from Magnetar Capital — just weeks after the startup raised $221 million — that valued it at $2 billion. In June, Typeface raised a $100 million Series B led by Salesforce Ventures 1 at a $1 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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Revolution Ventures backs Casted in B2B-focused podcast play

TechCrunch

The startup quadrupled its revenue, tripled its customer base and doubled the size of its team during the course of the 12-month period. Once published, Casted provides access to a “fully searchable content archive” with transcription services and tagging. million since its inception. 2020 was a good year for Casted.

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Choosing the right technology stack for your startup

CircleCI

Startups are an incredible journey but tend to put a lot of pressure on their leaders to make the right choices and move fast. The factors to be considered in this blog have to do with technology change costs and crucial leadership decisions. Technology stacks changes can often come with hefty price tags.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck

TechCrunch

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The cover slide is at the top of this post and just reads “The OS for Grocery” with a few keywords, designed as tags (“order management,” “inventory management” and “analytics”).