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Commercializing deep tech startups: A practical guide for founders and investors

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A software engineer by background, Vin has spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley working with tech companies. As a deep tech investor, I have often noticed that deep tech startups go through a different evolution cycle than a typical B2B or B2C company. Vin Lingathoti. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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

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To set about helping solve that problem, he left Braintree in 2019 and teamed up with fellow former Chime software engineer Zhuo Huang to found Streamlined , an Oakland-based startup that is emerging from stealth today with a total of $4 million in funding. Unusual Ventures and others put money in the latest round.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Unfortunately for us, typical B2C cases are rather scarce. So investors should always keep this in mind when thinking about coming to Switzerland.

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Autify advances no-code AI-powered software testing automation platform with $10M Series A

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While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. Singapore as well as Europe, according to Chikizawa.

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

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Xie — who goes by the nickname “Starlord” (yes) and previously worked as a software engineer at Oracle in the U.S. ” But he saw an opportunity to build first in Shanghai because of the affordability of hiring engineers as well as the market size of China, and thus the volume of unstructured data to hand.

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Brazil’s Kovi closes $104M Series B to make car ownership ‘more inclusive’ in LatAm

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The company also enhanced its B2C offering so that drivers can access a car, with “everything included,” from insurance to 24-hour road support and preventive maintenance through Kovi. It also, naturally, plans to add to its 700-person team — including hiring developers, software engineers and data scientists.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

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B2C and B2B startups often deal with relatively distinct categories of problems and have each cultivated their own techniques for solving them. However, there’s a lot of value in specializing in either B2B or B2C. It’s good to see both sides at some point. Working across the stack.