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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

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The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Samuel Huber, CEO and Co-founder at Admix, commented:“We see the internet entering a new stage: Web 3.0 ” Elaborating, Huber told me that companies in the same space include Bidstack, Adverty, Anzu and Frameplay.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

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Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. A virtual store created with Emperia’s platform.

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Beyond ‘Netflix Party’: startups and their VCs bet we’ll browse more of the web together

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Yet that company — later renamed Teleparty — was just the beginning, argue two young companies that have raised seed funding. From watching sports to watching movies to perhaps even reviewing X-rays with one’s doctor some day, both say more web surfing together is inevitable, particularly for younger users.

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Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

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” AiFi’s “smart stores” are grocery stores, sport stadiums and convenience stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out. million purchases to date.

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SendOwl, a platform for selling digital goods, raises $4.5M from Defy.vc, Stripe and others

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The startup aims to increase the GDP of the creator economy and is a remote-first company with employees across three continents and customers in more than 50 countries. SendOwl says it has delivered nearly $2 billion of value in digital and virtual goods for tens of thousands of paying merchants across millions of transactions.

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Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack

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Founded out of Menlo Park in 2019, Pulse in its initial guise was a “virtual office” platform called Loop Team , but after honing the idea for a couple of years it pivoted and rebranded last November. But Pulse sported myriad integrations with business tools that brought similar functionality. ” Feel the pulse.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

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Twenty startups competed this week on the TechCrunch virtual stage for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and last night, we announced the finalists: Adventr , Cellino , Koa , Nth Cycle and Tatum. for seven years, eventually leading the internet company. The stakes stretch beyond prize money, however.

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