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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. million pre-seed round in 2018. million already raised.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. billion fish deficit.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Atrium (2017-2020). HubHaus (2016-2020).

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Extra Crunch roundup: Jam City SPAC, startup PR, telemedicine market map, more

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Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

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San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. A robust market. million by 2022.