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Ex-Chime engineers raise $4M for B2B payments infrastructure startup Streamlined

TechCrunch

For de Souza, who was also a founding engineer at digital bank Chime and a product manager at Slack, the whole business payments space “has not really evolved” over the past several decades. But Streamlined is different, he claims, in that it has “custom built” transaction infrastructure for B2B “from the ground up.”.

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Japan’s B2B ordering and supply platform CADDi raises $73 million Series B funding

TechCrunch

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M

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“The end users include the multiple stakeholders at each company who touch pricing and billing, with engineers, product managers, revops, and finance controllers using Orb actively to drive business decisions.” Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI products.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

Unfortunately, most B2B companies go through the innovation journey using abstract terms and intangible metrics, such as “trying to reach product market fit.” Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it. Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it.

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Extra Crunch roundup: B2B marketplaces, edtech M&A, breaking into the $1M ARR club

TechCrunch

B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups. Marketplaces created for B2B activity are surging in popularity. Even so, according to Merritt Hummer, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, “B2B marketplaces cannot simply remain stagnant, serving as simple transactional platforms.” Details here.

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Google, Stanford And The IDF: Professional Backgrounds Of Unicorn Founders

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Engineers (21%), software engineers (17%) and product managers (14%) round out the most-common background roles a clear pattern showing that leadership, technology and marketing skills form the foundation of unicorn founder success. Another 22% had already led companies as CEOs, while 9% served as CTOs before launching their unicorns.