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The mobile app that provides information and reviews on barbers for potential customers while also managing appointments, mobile payments and pricing on the back end for barbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clootrack is a real-time customer experience analytics platform that helps brands understand why customers stay or churn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq is updating its service with a handful of new features. In addition to Dutch, German and French bank account numbers, existing and new users in Spain can now get a Spanish IBAN. European IBANs are supposed to work across Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. It now wants to become the world’s leading e-bike brand by iterating at a faster pace. Asia-based private equity firm Hillhouse Investment is leading the round, with Gillian Tans, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...

Pancake is democratizing interior design services to make it accessible to everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pixalate provides fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics for connected television and mobile advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can reading glasses actually be cool? A new eyewear company called Cheeterz Club thinks so. The startup is working to change the perception of reading glasses from being just cheap, disposable items you pick up from a rotating display rack at your local drug store to being something you’d actually be proud to wear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

German startup Dance is launching its subscription service in its hometown Berlin. For a flat monthly fee of €79 (around $93 at today’s exchange rate), users will get a custom-designed electric bike as well as access to an on-demand repair and maintenance service. Founded by the former founders of SoundCloud and Jimdo, the company managed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices....

The buildout of 5G networks continues apace, with wide-scale deployments across much of the developed world. Yet, one of the largest challenges with closing the gaps in coverage maps are constraints on 5G transmissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With more than 270,000 stickers, Stipop’s library of colorful, character-driven expressions has a little something for everyone. The company offers keyboard and social app stickers through ad-supported mobile apps on iOS and Android, but it’s recently focused more on providing stickers to developers, creators and other online businesses. “We were able to gather so many […] Learn more about your ad...

The company bills itself as an easy accounting platform for e-commerce businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The offer management platform provides “deal desk” software for recruiters to easily manage compensation strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Chernow is already known as a restaurateur, chef, television host and entrepreneur, but now he can also add lifestyle and wellness guru to that list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Shares, a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in that case, the company means ‘social’ as in ‘social network’. The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Forward Kitchens provides a turnkey tool for restaurants to set up an online presence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imagine typing out of a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script. That’s exactly what testRigor, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 cohort has done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.” That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to change the medium of my writing to become a better writer. Still, all these years later, it’s true: vocalizing […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Less than a year after raising its $6 million seed funding round, Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup Build.security is being acquired by Elastic. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. The deal is expected to close in Elastic’s Q2 FY22, ending Oct. 31, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Givz, which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, Claude Wasserstein of Fine Day, Phoenix Club and Dylan Whitman. Givz was founded in 2017 […] Learn more about your ad choices....

Adra is bringing AI into the dentist's day-to-day workflow so they can spend less time finding cavities and more time with patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rutter is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Ventures, GFA Venture Partners and Suffolk Construction. The startup looks to put a slew of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...

As developers build applications, they often want to test new functionality on a limited set of users to blunt any possible negative impact or to gauge user reaction to the change before rolling it out more broadly. They use a technique called a feature flag, and Split.io, a startup that has built a platform to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of people every year, and recovering them can take years — assuming recovery is possible at all. The U.S. government estimates that floods in recent decades (exclusive of hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $160 billion in damage […] Learn more about your ad choices....