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Pylon lands $17M investment to build a full service B2B customer service platform

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Last year Pylon, an early San Francisco startup, was just trying to build its product and bring it to market with a fresh $3.2 million seed investment in its pockets. That product involved helping companies track, manage and route B2B customer conversations in channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord. What the company learned, however, […]

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Fast-growing neobank Comun has secured $21.5M in new funding just months after its last raise

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Comun, a digital bank focused on serving immigrants in the United States, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round less than nine months after announcing a $4.5 million raise, TechCrunch is the first to report. This is a crowded space, filled with a number of startups, including Tanda, Bloom Money, Majority, Welcome

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Eric Ly from KarmaCheck shares his entrepreneurial lessons after decades in the industry

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Eric Ly has a storied career: he started as an engineering intern at IBM, and twenty years later found himself co-starting and serving as the founding CTO of LinkedIn. After that, he went on to start a slew of companies, including his most recent one, KarmaCheck, which uses AI-driven technology to make background checks easier.

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Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries

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The first defense startup to receive backing from Y Combinator, Ares Industries, launched earlier this week. In a post on the YC website, the startup outlined a vision to build low-cost cruise missiles that will be compatible with existing launch platforms, saying it will “deliver the capabilities that the [Department of Defense] wants in a

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Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings

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Travly is a new social-first discovery and hotel booking platform designed to cater to the growing number of travelers who rely on short-form video content for trip ideas.  The platform features user-generated content that provides authentic reviews of hotels instead of generic information and often outdated images. Creators who submit videos of hotels have the

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TPG nears $150M funding in India’s Eruditus at $2.3B valuation

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Eruditus, an Indian edtech startup, is in advanced stages of talks to secure about $150 million in new funding, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in what would be the largest fundraise by an Indian education firm in years. TPG, a major private equity player, is discussing to lead the investment, the sources

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