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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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Epic Games to shut down Houseparty in October, including the video chat ‘Fortnite Mode’ feature

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Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Founded in 2015, Houseparty offered a way for users to participate in group video chats with friends and even play games, like Uno, trivia, Heads Up and others.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

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Chanje (2015-2021). The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015. Katerra (2015-2021). Founded in 2015, Katerra had at one point been valued at $4 billion and employed more than 8,000 people. Loon (2015-2021).

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Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web

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Goodin explained that the company started out as an image research firm before becoming a product-focused, venture-backed startup in 2015. “This isn’t just about UGC, this is about tapping into the creative potential of the internet,” she said. ” Unsplash is building an ad business around branded stock photos.

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Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million

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Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. Xpressbees, which concluded its Series D round three years ago, has raised $175.8

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

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Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. In addition to the funding round, Trust announced a strategic partnership with social shopping e-commerce platform Verishop. Is the internet advertising economy about to implode?

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