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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. ” How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made Prelaunch is founded on the core belief that the current practices in hardware product development basically haven’t changed in the last 100 years.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey

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seed deck Image Credits: Prelaunch.com (opens in a new window) Earlier this week, Haje Jan Kamps interviewed Prelaunch.com’s Narek Vardanyan to get his perspective on how hardware startups can validate products before going to market. Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

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Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. The TechCrunch Top 3. In its response, Apple didn’t seem too worried.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC robotics survey, Visa Bulletin update, SaaS engagement metrics

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Since our last robotics investor survey in February 2020, Figure emerged from stealth with its bipedal humanoid robot, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas became a parkour expert. Autonomous tractors, semi trucks and warehouse restocking bots have gone from concept to reality.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Insurtech investor survey, H-1B red flags, SaaS sales coaching

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Between 2016 and 2022, insurtech startups received around $43 billion in funding, and despite the downturn, most of the investors that reporter Anna Heim recently surveyed said they’re still positive about the sector’s prospects: Martha Notaras, general partner, Brewer Lane Ventures. Similarly, everyone needs insurance.

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

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In mid-February, we published a survey of 10 fintech investors with questions on topics such as what areas they are excited about and their outlook for the future. Here we are, not even six months later, and the vibe from the responses of our latest survey — this time of eight fintech investors — is a very different one.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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The Azul State of Java Survey and Report 2023 , an independently run study of more than 2,000 Java users, found that 90% of companies with applications built in Java, the most prominent programming language used to build enterprise applications, are deploying in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment. That’s a lot of wasted spend!

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