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Beeper’s all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades

Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

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Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS

November 15, 2022

Payload, which develops a headless open-source content management system (CMS), today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures. Other investors include MongoDB Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Grand Ventures and Exceptional Capital, in addition to a number of angel investors. Unlike most CMS tools, Michigan-based Payload […]

Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end

November 15, 2022

Since its launch in 2017, Retool has made a name for itself by offering developers an easier way to build line-of-business apps for their internal users. Unlike the many low-code/no-code tools on the market today, Retool’s focus remains squarely on developers, despite its helpful drag-and-drop interface. Now, about half a year after announcing its $45 […]

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB

November 15, 2022

Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform — was working as the chief product officer at SingleStore when he noticed that the vast majority of database workloads were small (less than 10GB in size) and low-bandwidth. While vendors were building for massive data sets, the term “big […]

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

As product-led growth expands, Loops digs into the data to track key metrics

November 15, 2022

Companies are increasingly looking at product led growth, where the product helps drive market expansion. If you’re giving the people what they want, they will spend more money, or so the theory goes, but how do you actually measure progress? That’s where an early stage startup called Loops comes in. It announced a $14 million […]

As product-led growth expands, Loops digs into the data to track key metrics by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint

November 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. The company raised a $2.5 million seed funding round led by TenOneTen Ventures, taking its total funding raised to $3.3 million. […]

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

How tech is fuelling the growth of Fintech

November 15, 2022
India is home to 20+ fintech unicorns, and the fintech industry is expected to reach $1 trillion in throughput and $200 billion in revenue by 2030. Like every other startup, fintech needs tech too, but they have a different kind of approach towards it, owing to the involvement of huge financial data.

Pickle picks up $26M for its truck unloading robots

November 15, 2022

Fulfillment has arguably been the hottest robotics category over the past two years, as companies have looked to stay competitive with Amazon, even amid ongoing labor shortages. Still, one of the most important links in the chain remains one of the least addressed. Truck unloading isn’t a particularly easy problem to solve, but Pickle Robot […]

Pickle picks up $26M for its truck unloading robots by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose, Meta India public policy director Rajiv Aggarwal quit

November 15, 2022

WhatsApp’s head of India Abhijit Bose and Meta’s public policy head for the country Rajiv Aggarwal have both left the social networking firm — just days after Meta India chief Ajit Mohan quit the company to join rival Snap. On Tuesday, Meta confirmed the departure of both executives. The company also announced the appointment of […]

WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose, Meta India public policy director Rajiv Aggarwal quit by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch