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Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part-time or full-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Quddus Pativada was 14, he wished that he had an app that could summarize his textbooks for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Synonym is developing designs and underwriting for its fermentation farms so that companies can more easily utilize them for bioproduct production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year.  Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Being in the business of convincing people that they deserve a vacation is hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Data engineers have a big problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Noom, a health coaching platform valued at $3.7 billion last year, is laying off a portion of staff for the second time in a matter of months, TechCrunch has learned from sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Insite AI, a platform for consumer packaged goods companies that uses AI to provide recommendations on how to price, distribute and promote their products in physical stores, today launched out of stealth with $19 million in Series A capital from NewRoad Capital and M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Workmate, a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific, one of the region’s largest HR service providers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fintor, a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices