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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

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Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. We decided to run a test before spending huge sums on production and marketing.” The team set up a marketing funnel, drove traffic to that page and waited. ’ I asked him. ” The test was a simple two-page website.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

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In his latest article, he explains why copying your rivals’ most successful marketing strategies can be one of the fastest ways to get traction with new customers. 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Thinking about pulling the plug on your startup? “There’s no need to constantly reinvent the wheel,” he advises.

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home

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.” In addition to proving a more integrated path for patients, Equipt partners with medical device companies looking to go to market. Once a company is ready to launch medically cleared equipment, the company can market the product on its site to help fulfill demand.

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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

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The United States has been trying to counteract the popularization of technological solutions from China for years, often taking steps that are contrary to the development of an open market. China is not remaining passive and is increasingly overcoming American sanctions by gaining new market segments.

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

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Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. Getting in on a growing market : The International Finance Corp.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

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AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware.

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