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Tackling the Cold Start Problem for Recommendation Engines

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I cannot fathom trying a new cafe that could have watery coffee when I already know a spot that is perfectly fine. However, my current champion is two subways and a ten-minute walk from my apartment, so the utility value is low.

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Qualcomm-backed Aravita wants to help Brazilian supermarkets control food waste

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Aravita , a Brazilian artificial intelligence startup, thinks that supermarkets are the best place to start fixing this problem. They have point-of-sale consumer data, and this is the data that we need to start making the predictions for low-demand forecasting. However, that first pilot didn’t come easy.

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

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We invest in startups leveraging the immense breadth of AI to solve critical business problems. Many workers who’ve been laid off recently are thinking about starting up their own companies. We look for founders to demonstrate how to apply the right techniques, with the right data, to the right problem.

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Daily Crunch: No-code fintech services startup Taktile closes $20M Series A round

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Okay, with that, let’s get started with the TC Top 3. million in funding to solve this problem with a no-code way to design online storefronts using just one tool, Christine writes. COOOOVID : Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle long COVID, Paul reports. PDT, subscribe here. Whoops — we updated the headline.

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To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs

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I’ll tackle the relationship-nurturing piece further down. Starting here signals that their needs supersede your own. People are always willing to pay a premium to solve problems, but you have to be prescriptive about what you do. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. More posts by this contributor. What could be better?

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Hydrolix snares $10M seed to lower the cost of processing log data at scale

TechCrunch

Hydrolix , an early stage startup, announced a $10 million seed round today to help tackle logging at scale, while using unique technology to lower the cost of storing and querying this data. He started Hydrolix because he wanted to change the economics to make it easier to store and query this valuable data.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

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Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. A little less than three years ago at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18.

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