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Sep 7, 2022 • 5min
Cultivated Biosciences wants to make plant-based dairy ‘feel’ more like the real McCoy
The vegan food market was pegged as a $27 billion industry last year, a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 7, 2022 • 5min
JusticeText raises $2.2M to increase transparency in criminal evidence-gathering
The company currently works with 50 public defender agencies and has around 60 clients who are private criminal defense attorneys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 6, 2022 • 5min
This Gen Z founder is pitching hundreds of investors… via Venmo
My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 6, 2022 • 5min
Indian agency searches fintech Paytm, Razorpay and Cashfree offices in Chinese loan apps probe
India’s financial crime fighting agency searched the offices of fintech unicorns Paytm and Razorpay as well as Cashfree on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps, it said Saturday, the latest in a series of probes in recent months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 5, 2022 • 5min
Fairmarkit’s AI-fueled platform delivers autonomous procurement sourcing
Companies tend to divide their procurement spending into two main buckets. The first is large purchases over $500,000 with some starting $1 million, depending on the size of the organization. Anything below that figure falls under a category known as “tail spend.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 2, 2022 • 6min
With schools increasingly focused on mental health, PsycApps raises Seed round for US expansion
I’ve been tracking PsycApps, a startup that came up with a gamified mental health game ‘eQuoo’, since 2016, and this company – and its founder – is nothing if not persistent in ‘pivoting into the wind’. T Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 2, 2022 • 5min
This dating app fought scammers with bots… hilarity ensued
You know the feeling; you’re on a dating app, and you start a conversation with someone, and things don’t seem like they add up completely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 1, 2022 • 5min
Falkon closes $16M round to automate sales workflows and analyses
Falkon, a sales analytics platform that uses AI to attempt to show where successful product sales are occuring in an organization, today announced that it raised $16 million in a funding round led by OMERS Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 1, 2022 • 6min
MEDU takes in $4M to develop reusable personal protective equipment
MEDU aims to reduce hospital garment waste and replace single-wear items with its line of sustainable, virus-resistant reusable pieces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 31, 2022 • 4min
Kula makes the job recruitment process less exhausting
The process of finding job candidates often entails a lot of tedious manual work for recruiters, like sending versions of the same email over and over again. That’s Kula was created. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
