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Pleased Thursday! Has everybody recovered from Zoom happening this morning? Don’t fear, Zoom is again up, but when something, we hope it helped you’ve a quieter day…for some time at the very least. — Christine and Haje
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- One rival at a time: The digital design world acquired a deal with right this moment when Adobe introduced it was shopping for Figma, certainly one of its greatest rivals, in a $20 billion deal that has each traders and Figma fanatics pondering what is going to change and if these adjustments shall be dangerous, Ingrid experiences. In the meantime, Alex provides his take on the deal over in TechCrunch+ land.
- “The Merge” is right here: Speak of “The Merge” has been with us for weeks, and right this moment it’s lastly right here. If you happen to don’t observe cryptocurrency, because of this Ethereum, certainly one of crypto’s hottest blockchains, has now switched to proof-of-stake consensus, which additionally means it can now eat so much much less electrical energy, Romain writes. And for TC+, Jacquelyn tells us why it issues that Lido, Coinbase, Kraken and Binance have a majority stake of ETH.
- There’s a repair for that: Apple is clearing a path for straightforward iPhone 14 integration with a setup repair. Ivan has extra.
Startups and VC
At present, Haje has been operating round at Micromobility America. They insist on utilizing the MMA acronym, so he’s anticipating a fist to the face any second, however to this point the one danger of harm has been from neck-breaking micromobility within the type of electrical rollerblades. It’s in all probability a coincidence that Kav introduced it’s spooling up a 3D printing manufacturing unit for bike helmets on the identical day.
Appears like mobility is in every single place lately — Matt notes that mobility startups are filling the void in a Detroit auto present that’s a shell of its former self.
The TechCrunch crew has been terribly busy. There’s a wall of reports on the TechCrunch homepage; right here’s a couple of of those that caught our eye this high-quality Thursday:
Pitch Deck Teardown: Helu.io’s $9.8M Sequence A deck
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Serving to small- and medium-sized enterprises with their controlling, reporting and budgeting might not sound thrilling, however Austrian fintech startup Helu.io’s storytelling expertise excited traders sufficient to boost a $9.8 million Sequence A in July.
Except for some particulars concerning unit economics and income, Helu shared its complete successful pitch deck with us. As these slides recommend, its founders took an easy strategy:
Downside: “The CFO’s ache is Excel.”
Answer: “Goodbye Excel sheets.”
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Large Tech Inc.
At any time when Name of Obligation is talked about, we are able to’t assist however recall Rashida Jones’s character in “The Workplace” giving the sport a shout-out. In right this moment’s case, Jordan was there as Activision unveiled what the sport’s subsequent technology will seem like.
