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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 6, 2021. We made it to Friday. High-fives throughout. If you personal shares or cryptos, you’re wrapping up the week on a excessive. Crypto costs are rising whereas some indices are hitting information.
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The TechCrunch Top 3
- SpaceX builds 400-foot rocket: If you had been involved that infantile jokes concerning billionaire rocketry had been about to die down, concern not: SpaceX has stacked its Starship automobile on high of a Super Heavy booster. That means a really tall rocket with a lot oomph. This is the primary time that Starship and Super Heavy have come collectively.
- The altering worth of insurtech startups: A couple of weeks again, TechCrunch requested if the market needs to be involved about insurtech valuations. Then they took one other hit. We tackled the subject within the wake of Hippo’s public itemizing, deciding that almost all public insurtech firms are rich sufficient in money phrases to not sweat the declines. Too a lot.
- What to anticipate from Samsung’s subsequent {hardware} occasion: Samsung’s impending Unpacked occasion could also be, properly, packed. We may see a brand new Galaxy Fold cellphone, new watches, wearables from a Google partnership and extra. TechCrunch can be overlaying the occasion this August 11, so stick near the positioning for extra.
Startups/VC
- DesignOps is the brand new DevOps: That’s our tackle zeroheight and its new $10 million Series A spherical. The startup “does for UX what DevOps platforms like GitHub do for building and shipping code, providing a central place to document and manage UX components,” CEO Jerome de Lafargue informed TechCrunch.
- 500 Startups backs the Carta for Africa: Carta is a crucial a part of the U.S. startup expertise stack, serving to hold cap tables and shares in correct order. As Africa’s startup scene expands, it can want one thing comparable. And Raise is constructing it. Per the startup, most startup fairness on the continent remains to be tracked with paper. It’s time for that to alter.
- Healthcare supplier API raises $17M: APIs to assist firms handle their suppliers should not new. AgentSync is constructing one thing within the house for insurance coverage brokers. Verifiable is pursuing an analogous mannequin, however targeted on healthcare employees. As with Rapid, what’s being changed are guide processes. Software is nice at many issues, however assuaging people from sure kinds of bullshit work is certainly one of them.
- Card-issuing APIs are coming to Africa: Thanks to the primary Zambian firm to get into Y Combinator, I hasten so as to add. The startup in query, Union54, was first launched in 2015 as Zazu, a neobank. But it discovered the card-issuing house so punitive to work with that it took on that drawback, rebranding alongside the best way. Card issuing is a giant market within the U.S. and Latin America. Let’s see the way it performs within the startup house on a brand new continent.
- To shut out our startup protection in the present day, TechCrunch has an excellent and lengthy take a look at the burgeoning startup hub of Utrecht, that little bit of the Netherlands that at all times appears to be like tremendous beautiful while you see a photograph of it. Enjoy!
Craft your pitch deck round ‘that one thing that can really hook an investor’
We often run articles with recommendation for founders who’re engaged on pitch decks. It’s a basic step in each startup’s journey, and there are myriad methods to strategy the duty.
Michelle Davey of telehealth staffing and companies firm Wheel and Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners appeared on Extra Crunch Live lately to investigate Wheel’s Series A pitch.
Nof stated entrepreneurs ought to candidly clarify to potential traders what they’ll must imagine to again…
