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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’ – TechCrunch
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RedRoute, a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector.
When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social...
Splendid Spoon stirs its strategy to get you to love plant-based foods – TechCrunch
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More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices.
The online meal kit delivery market is poised to be a $7 billion industry by the end of this year, and then triple in the next five years. That has attracted venture...
Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds – TechCrunch
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Product-led sales and growth were big buzzwords last year, and startups are continuing to raise new infusions of capital as they develop their approaches.
In Endgame’s case, the company announced Tuesday it closed on $30 million in Series B funding. The company touts itself as “the world’s first product-led...
Artisanal Ventures closes $62M fund, takes ‘connected capital’ approach to investment – TechCrunch
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Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it’s a smart move for companies, and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift.
Artisanal Ventures, a Bay Area venture capital firm investing in B2B cloud startups, closed on its first...
Canva on Wednesday said it closed on its acquisition of Flourish, a London-based data visualization startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition comes as the visual communications company reached over 75 million monthly active users, up over 30 million in the past 12 months.
Flourish, founded...
Camila Cabello, Mindy Kaling, Gwyneth Paltrow pour capital into Olipop’s mission to change soda – TechCrunch
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Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. soft drink industry.
In Olipop’s case, the three-year-old brand is going after function, with a line of sodas aimed at supporting digestive health. The company...
AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one – TechCrunch
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AllSpice, a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub.
Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019. They...
Canvas gives non-technical teams data exploration knowledge without needing a degree in SQL – TechCrunch
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While some startups are trying to get people to leave spreadsheets behind, Canvas, which is developing a collaborative data exploration tool, is going all in with a spreadsheet-like interface for non-technical teams to access the information they need without bothering data teams.
Luke Zapart, who started Canvas in late...
Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI – TechCrunch
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When you go to events, conferences and trade shows and it works out well in terms of driving tons of leads and opportunities, it is a good experience. However, when the events don’t work out so well, that can be risky in terms of wasting time and money.
Two...
Black Sheep Foods, a foodtech company making plant-based heritage breed meats and wild game, took in $5.25 million in seed funding as it continues developing its patent-pending flavor compounds.
Sunny Kumar, co-founder, told TechCrunch that where some plant-based meats fall short is relying on the taste to be generated...