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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

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Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. The cloud storage and services market is nowhere near maturity, according to Battery Ventures’ 2021 State of the OpenCloud report. Funding for U.S.-based,

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

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Curtsy also helps sellers to schedule a free USPS pickup to save a trip to the post office, and it will even send sellers a shipping label, if need be. It will also be focused on developing an Android version of its app in the first quarter of 2021 and further building out its web presence.

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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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Since its February 2021 debut, the company has grown to include over 100 retailers, predominately in the fashion space. It works with both the USPS and a network of local carriers to serve the customers in its current footprint, which is about 100 million U.S. If items need to be returned, those same packages are reused.

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Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS

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Pawel Sieczkiewicz, founder and CEO at Telemedico, says it’s fielding over 100,000 consultations per month at this stage — and is projecting that to increase to 250,000 by the end of 2021. free at the point of use for patients). It also offers consultations via a fee-for-service model.

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

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.” The computer vision technology is built from the ground up — a project that seems to have started as early as 2019 and has been complex enough that this launch was postponed from its original target date of 2021.

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The Station: Rivian trims its workforce and a supply chain-tainted earnings season begins

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Dott brought in €32M in 2021 , with about 19 million rides in 29 cities. A former employee told us Helbiz also missed payroll in Serbia in December 2020, with employees not seeing a check until February 2021. In other news …. HumanForest did a marketing thing with dating app Bumble that was actually kind of cute.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

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Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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