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Mark Shaw likes running around. The serial entrepreneur joined activity and fitness tracking platform Strava as a co-founder in 2009 to lead engineering as CTO. He spent eight years there, and as of its most recent raise in 2020, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Checkmate's shopping tool gathers all the online discount codes, gift cards and personalized deals from your inbox and automatically applies them at checkout. Checkmate captures all of your shopping deals so you don’t have to by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chaos engineering was originally developed at large companies to help them pressure test systems in production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A cloud kitchen — also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keeping up with tax compliance for cryptocurrency can be tricky, especially since many laws are new (or haven’t been written yet). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Bump has signed a multi-year financing partnership with DIF Capital Partners in order to roll out more charging stations for electric vehicles and double down on growth in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Leoparda Electric, a São Paolo–based startup, wants to be the Gogoro of Latin America. In other words, it’s looking to build out a network of battery swapping stations that should help spread adoption of electric two-wheelers in the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For more than half a decade, Zopper built a platform for small and medium-sized businesses, helping merchants with invoicing and payments through its point-of-sale platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A group of former Meta engineers is building a platform to help enterprises deploy machine learning models at the speed of big tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Video of a sidewalk delivery robot crossing yellow caution tape and rolling through a crime scene in Los Angeles went viral this week, amassing more than 650,000 views on Twitter and sparking debate about whether the technology is ready for prime time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a town hall to some members of their community, Launch House addressed the harassment and assault allegations surfaced by a Vox Investigation earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stop trying to make Polywork happen. It’s already happening. You may even be polyworking as you read this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Denim, the fintech platform for freight and logistics formerly known as Axle Payments, today announced that it raised $126 million in a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S healthcare system is infamously labyrinthine, with a lengthy claims process that results in frequent errors and high administrative costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Its technology is a way to grow and control cells without the need for any of those expensive recombinant proteins for cell production. Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In recent years, a cottage industry has sprung up around the industrial internet of things (IoT) landscape — and the data generated by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

HotelOnline, a Kenyan-based travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI and machine learning tools geared toward the enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The app was designed with Gen Z in mind, a generation that will grow up with the blockchain and most likely own some kind of digital assets. Stack.io banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloud storage is expensive (especially in this economy), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices