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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. Prelaunch.com is an Armenian startup that has developed tools to help startup founders figure out what’s worth building — and just raised $1.5 million to further develop its product and services. “Results were bad.

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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. How to make coaching work for your sales team.

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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Tipping the scales : Brian writes that Lumen raises $62 million for its handheld weight-loss hardware. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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Daily Crunch: Bitcoin-demanding cybercriminals use bug from 2021 to initiate global ransomware attack 

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Kyle reports that Magic, which conjured up $23 million in new funding led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, is out to “dramatically reduce the time and financial cost of developing software,” said co-founder and CEO Eric Steinberger. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Big Tech Inc.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

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While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below. However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

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Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. We surveyed: • Gerda Sakalauskait? What is it weak in? What is it weak in?

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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

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” By controlling the hardware, OS and software, they were able to significantly out-perform the software-based Check Point firewall. Eventually, Netscreenalso saw the lack of enterprise management as a weakness and delivered a central management platform with similar functionality to Check Point.