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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

TechCrunch

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? Chris Toy, CEO and co-founder, Marketer Hire. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

TechCrunch

Fast-forward to today, with millions of hours in aggregate clocked up on services like Zoom, Microsoft’s Teams, Google’s Meet, WebEx and the many other videoconferencing apps out there, and skeptics might argue that what we have on the market today has been good enough.

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Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global

TechCrunch

Crisp says its USP is seasonal products sourced directly from 600+ small and high-quality producers at an affordable price in the Netherlands. The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. million to date.

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How InsurTechs Can Navigate the Technology Landscape to Accelerate Growth

Trigent

It attributed organizational performance to excellence in software delivery and operational performance as technology transformations remained at the helm of initiatives. CTOs and technology leaders are now required to rapidly build new-age solutions and scale the digital platforms to fast-track processes and business transactions.

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How to integrate with eCommerce delivery and shipment carriers: DHL, FedEx, UK Royal Mail, UPS, USPS, Canada Post, Amazon

Altexsoft

As soon as you get them in order – you get more loyal clients and grow your your presence on the market. Just like many providers we already discussed, UPS has a list of third-party applications that already have UPS technology integrated. USPS: federal US parcel service provider. Integrated technologies.

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

That’s now been topped up with seed financing to get a prototype to market later this month. Where, then, does Kobeissi see Capsule’s USP — i.e. if/when there’s a sea of decentralized ‘mega-apps’ that can also claim resilience to censorship? “The prototype is ready,” he tells TechCrunch.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch

Curtsy , a clothing resale app and competitor to recently IPO’d Poshmark, announced today it has raised $11 million in Series A funding for its startup focused on the Gen Z market. Curtsy also helps sellers to schedule a free USPS pickup to save a trip to the post office, and it will even send sellers a shipping label, if need be.

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