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Want More Runway? Consider Your Infrastructure Costs

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Infrastructure, a variable cost If you, like most startups, built in the cloud, every user walking in the front door represents an incremental cost to serve. That means, as odd as it sounds, infrastructure is actually a variable cost. If you haven’t figured out product-market fit yet, you need more time.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

TechCrunch

Initially, we approached this as a hardware challenge until we determined that the key to meeting next-generation electric motor demand actually lies in software. Pivoting from hardware to SaaS was the right move for our electric motor design startup, but the process wasn’t precisely linear. An assessment of global trends (e.g.,

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Dent Reality raises $3.4M to bring augmented reality into the grocery store

TechCrunch

Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture deals for startups focused on finding opportunities in augmented reality. AR capabilities allow users to hold their phone up to chart a path to the object of their desire.

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New Zealand-based Imagr thinks camera-based AI is the future of shopping trolleys

TechCrunch

It also really highlighted the fact that the end user wanted a solution that was completely frictionless, and it demonstrated that their infrastructure was not capable of handling that sort of thing. Imagr, which recently had a pop-up shop in London to demonstrate its tech, is currently raising its Series A after it raised $9.5

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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data

TechCrunch

We make it a modern data service, instead of like a huge marine operation — you’re not tied to this massive piece of infrastructure floating in the water. This means that data is collected much closer to ordinary internet infrastructure and can be handed off for cloud-based processing and storage more easily than before.

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Software Driven Business Advantages in the Enterprise Storage Market

Infinidat

Not too many years ago, enterprise storage solutions were all about hardware-based innovation, delivering performance and functionality by adding dedicated and proprietary hardware components. Software Driven Business Advantages in the Enterprise Storage Market. Adriana Andronescu. Tue, 04/26/2022 - 22:00.

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