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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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Being that I’m not much of a sports person — my preferred type of game involves controllers and screens — I hadn’t given All-World much thought until Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch’s managing editor, assigned me to write a first impressions piece. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture?

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EquityZen’s Phil Haslett on how startup valuations can regain their moxie

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It’s the first of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day event, which means that TechCrunch will spend most of our working hours watching startup demos and tracking how many companies from the batch are in particular sectors and geographies. A closed IPO market and antitrust vibes from U.S. One size does not fit all.

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Fire up CrunchMatch today and start networking with TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 attendees

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Granted, networking can sometimes feel like a contact sport, especially at a global event with more than 10,000 attendees. Shameless marketing plug: Buy your Disrupt 2021 pass now and hop on board the opportunity express. Meet mentors, marketers and manufacturers? Check, check and check.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

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It has become normal to raise funds long before you have a product/market fit, and this poses challenges to entrepreneurs that are of a very different nature than those the ecosystem has faced in the past years,“ he added back in November 2021. Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport.

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Discord’s reported $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges

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It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters.

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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

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Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 ” The market for AI-generated “synthetic media” is growing. billion annually by 2027. But it’s also a laborious and costly process.

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AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS

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The program offers valuable resources along with best practices for all AWS partners to build, market, and sell generative AI solutions jointly with AWS. Throughout her tenure at AWS, she has held various partner marketing roles, including Global IoT Solutions, AWS Partner Solution Factory, and Sr.