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Accel, Square Peg back Chronicle’s tool for presentations that won’t put you to sleep

TechCrunch

You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. But he found that creating good presentations took hours of work and was especially difficult for people without a visual design background. Most users read complex information on social media.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics

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Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “Acquisitions in the world of social robotics are very rare. .” “Acquisitions in the world of social robotics are very rare. After raising $11.5

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How Zenly made social maps cool again — and what’s next

TechCrunch

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. When you opened the app, you were presented with a map that showed your location and your friends’ location.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

This presentation will dive into how proper experimental design, multiple hypothesis testing, cohort analysis, and split testing can effectively reduce batch size and meantime to validate insights accelerating your lead time from idea to cash.

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Blidz raises $6.6M to expand its Pinduoduo-inspired social shopping app

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Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S.

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. All of the capacity and operational challenges that were present in healthcare prior to the pandemic are magnified now. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”