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Wiliot raises $200M as it preps a SaaS pivot, licensing its ultralight, ambient-power chip technology to third parties

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This will be combined with a shift to a licensing model for its chip hardware, so that they can be produced by multiple third parties. Other industries that have been talking with Wiliot include consumer packaged goods companies, furniture companies and the apparel industry (which has been a big adopter of RFID).

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Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its ‘consumer-like B2B checkout platform’

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Its customers range from startups to publicly traded marketplaces to e-commerce enterprises across a variety of industries such as steel, freight, hardware, food ordering, medical supply and apparel. They include Bryzos, Choco, Zilingo and Bay Supply, among others.

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Elephantech wants to create circuit boards that are kinder to the environment

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The neochromato process supports removing print from polyester fabrics without using water, and putting new print on the textiles to reuse the material with a different design before recycling to reduce apparel waste.

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

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Apparel brands are scrambling for new, low-impact fabric that will allow them to meet their ambitious sustainability goals,” CEO Taylor Heisley-Cook tells TechCrunch. “We Specifically, the company creates cellulosic fiber pulp from agricultural byproducts.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

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“As companies develop new hardware, new models, or expand their geographic and customer base, new training data is required to ensure models perform adequately,” Behzadi told TechCrunch via email. Through the platform, data scientists could customize the avatars’ poses as well as their hair, facial hair, apparel (e.g.,

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

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Another theme is “Love of the Game,” which includes companies that develop or publish video games, facilitate streaming or downloading of gaming/esports content, or produce hardware used in video games and esports.

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Daily Crunch: Cloudflare rolls out new mobile services to secure employees’ smartphones

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A SIM card can act as another security factor, and — in combination with hardware keys — make it nearly impossible to impersonate an employee,” Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming told Kyle. What makes theirs different from other legacy options — for example, VPN — is its cell-level protection. “A

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