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The Fashion Kingdom, an Egyptian fashion e-commerce startup, raises $2.6M in seed funding

TechCrunch

The Fashion Kingdom (TFK), an Egyptian e-commerce marketplace for fashion, beauty and home accessories items, announced today that it has raised $2.6 Antaki noticed a need for a platform that sold fashion products with fast deliveries, different payment methods, and a recommendation feature in Egypt. trillion in three years.

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Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it

TechCrunch

And the company also has fashion on the brain. “It seems like there’s a need for somebody who could not be a branded supplier, but to be someone who can provide scalable mushroom leather,” said Bayer. . The demand for new biomaterials in the fashion industry, such as mycelium, far outstrips the current supply.

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What Should You Know About Graph Database’s Scalability?

Dzone - DevOps

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

TechCrunch

By far the biggest startup name in the sustainable fashion space is a company like Bolt Threads , which has inked deals with companies including Stella McCartney, Adidas and the owner of the Balenciaga fashion house (among others).

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MycoWorks, making leather from fungi, closes $125M to scale production

TechCrunch

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. In addition to using plant-based materials for fashion, other companies are finding success with fungi-based technology.

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Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

TechCrunch

“Solutions,” “cutting-edge,” “scalable” and “innovative” are just a sample of the overused jargon lurking around every corner of the techverse, with SaaS marketers the world over seemingly singing from the same hymn book. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS?

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How online retailers can harness live shopping on social media with modern commerce — and boost massive growth

CIO

Unfortunately, most retailers still face scalability problems during sudden traffic spikes. These solutions, built for the desktop eCommerce era, lack the flexibility and scalability needed for spontaneous and high-volume sales powered by live shopping. When shoppers see a 404 error page, they’re not likely to come back.

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