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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features

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Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. . Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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Daily Crunch: Snap lays off one-fifth of its workforce after missing revenue and growth targets

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Slumdog $5-illonnaire : Landa is the latest startup to attract venture capital, in this case $33 million, to democratize real estate ownership, Mary Ann writes. Social media and privacy don’t often go hand in hand, especially when children can see a lot on the internet already. The TechCrunch Top 3. Big Tech Inc.

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India’s BharatPe valued at $2.85 billion in Tiger Global-led $370 million funding

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Even as India has already emerged as the second-largest internet market, with more than 650 million users, much of the country remains offline. Among those outside of the reach of the internet are merchants running small businesses, such as roadside tea stalls and neighborhood stores.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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” Infogrid’s platform, powered by AI, gathers and analyzes data from internet of things (IoT) sensors to help property managers and owners optimize the performance of their various buildings — at least in theory. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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The Landing is bringing shoppable social and collaboration to interior design

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Monetizable mood boards might sound like the moonshot idea that no one asked for, but when you think about it, the vision is already informally happening in various corners of the internet. That’s when they dropped the moving service business, and instead used furnishing as a vector to solve the problem of contextual and social e-commerce.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

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RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. GiveShop: A matchmaking platform to connect companies that want to give with social impact projects that need money. Ntapi: An edtech platform for Africa, built to feel more like a social network than a traditional upskilling platform.

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

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Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. This year at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, MeetKai is launching several new platforms geared toward metaverse creators and users, including a way to digitize 3D spaces and buildings using any internet-connected device with a camera.

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