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Heeeey! These days has been a exciting, prosperous, and diversified working day of information on your preferred tech information web site. Haje got the unlucky information that he will be attending his 15th CES in Las Vegas, so if you’re likely with your startup, the TC components crew needs to hear from you. Oh, and we have a slew of reward guides coming up — here’s a sneaky preview for the initially handful of, if you want some inspiration for getting the bounce on your vacation purchasing. — Christine and Haje

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Smoodi desires to see its smoothies in the fingers of, very well, absolutely everyone, and it shut $5 million to develop the reach for its robotic wise blender, Christine stories. Not gonna lie: we want smoothie robots over robots becoming utilised to destroy folks. See Brian’s post about how the law enforcement section in San Francisco can now use robots to destroy people. In other robot information, also from Brian, Monarch delivers its initial “smart tractor.”

In the meantime, it appears to be like Mozilla is on a buying spree. Today, Kyle reviews that it obtained Active Reproduction to construct on its metaverse eyesight, and yesterday, Paul wrote that the corporation snapped up the group guiding Pulse, an automatic status updater for Slack.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One’s $20M Collection A deck

Startups are approaching language understanding from just about every angle: Hour One particular makes use of AI to deploy avatars that switch text into video.

In 2020, its founders elevated a $5 million seed round, but earlier this year, it raised $20 million more via a Sequence A. Here’s a finish breakdown of the company’s unredacted 11-slide deck:

• Deal with slide
• “At a glance” summary slide
• Solution slide
• Current market measurement slide
• Price proposition slide
• Products slide 1
• Solution slide 2
• Goal audience slide
• Case study slide
• Staff slide
• Closing slide

Haje will take a glance at the good, the lousy, and the unsightly in the company’s $20 million series A pitch deck:

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Major Tech Inc.

As we sift by Elon Musk’s tweet concerning loathe speech currently, we have to issue out there is been a great deal of “FAFO” heading on in the Twitterverse, and Kanye West is the most up-to-date to FO what transpires when he FAs. Just a minimal about a month immediately after Kanye was reinstated on Twitter, Elon Musk suspended his account once more for breaking the social media giant’s principles, Ivan writes. This also arrives as West decides he isn’t getting Parler soon after all. Darrell has more.

In the meantime, in the globe of company shake-ups, Mary Ann delivers a primo headline for her story on Opendoor’s CEO Eric Wu, who stepped down right now, although Aria stories that area organization Astra is restructuring its management workforce following Benjamin Lyon resigns.

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