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Launch startup Stoke Space rolls out software tool for complex hardware development

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Stoke Space , a company that’s developing a fully reusable rocket, has unveiled a new tool to let hardware companies track the design, testing and integration of parts. The new tool, Fusion , is targeting an unsexy but essential aspect of the hardware workflow. Brent Bradbury, Stoke’s head of software, echoed these comments.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

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Manufacturing real-life, tangible objects that you can touch is often a lot riskier than developing software. Once you’ve created 10,000 thingamajigs, it’s far harder to make changes to them than in the software world, where you can push an update if you want to tweak something. In other words, your potential customers.”

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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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Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

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While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

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Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. .” All change.

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There Is No Software Maintenance

Henrik Warne

Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But that is not how software development works today. Software maintenance is simply software development.

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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. ” How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made Prelaunch is founded on the core belief that the current practices in hardware product development basically haven’t changed in the last 100 years.

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