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Feb 7, 2022 • 3min
GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech
Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 7, 2022 • 5min
Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users
A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 4, 2022 • 5min
No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery
Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 4, 2022 • 5min
Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game
Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3 billion company was paved in real data from images, text, voice and video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 3, 2022 • 5min
Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service
Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 3, 2022 • 5min
Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service
Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 2, 2022 • 4min
Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop
Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. The president and Congress have both been pushing to open the so-called right to repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 2, 2022 • 4min
Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’
Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 1, 2022 • 4min
VendorPM raises $6M to scale its marketplace for property managers and service vendors
VendorPM, a Toronto-based marketplace that connects property managers with reputable vendors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 1, 2022 • 4min
Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge
As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
