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Shef raises $20M to expand its homemade meal delivery marketplace
It’s still a bit of a legal maze, but more cities are coming around to the idea of letting local home chefs bring in more income by selling homecooked meals to those nearby. Shef is a marketplace meant to help these home chefs connect with […]
Reading the IPO market’s tea leaves
Although it’s a truncated holiday week here in the United States, there’s been a bushel of IPO news. This morning, we’re going to sort through the updates and come up with a series of sentiment calls regarding these public offerings. The Exchange explores startups, markets […]
Yieldstreet raises $100M as it mulls going public via SPAC, eyes acquisitions
These days, investing goes way beyond the stock market. And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. Today, one of those startups has raised a significant round of […]
Home services platform Urban Company raises $255 million at $2.1 billion valuation
Home services marketplace Urban Company said on Wednesday it has raised $255 million in a new financing round and confirmed a valuation of $2.1 billion, joining over a dozen other startups in India that have earned the unicorn status this year. The new financing round […]
Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
Robots also lack the kind of intelligence, manual dexterity, and people skills that any good cook, host, or server relies on to keep their diners happy. Can Peanut talk down a customer who’s irate because their eggs were fried instead of scrambled? Can it deftly […]
Blendata hopes to ride on wave of big data growth BIG Data
Mr Chaiyuth, right, and Mr Natnapat at a virtual press conference held yesterday. Blendata, Thailand’s first cloud-based big data platform developer under G-Able Group, aims to expand its market reach into Asia-Pacific in five years following a surge in demand for data among organisations. “Big […]
Tesla files trademark, hinting at Elon Musk’s restaurant concept plans
Tesla has recently filed a new trademark for its brand under restaurant services, a sign the company might be finally gearing up to deliver on an idea that CEO Elon Musk and other company executives have discussed publicly since at least 2017. The company applied […]
Ransomware Hits a Food Supply Giant—and Underscores Dire Risk
The disruptive power of ransomware was already on full display last month, thanks to the Colonial Pipeline attack that for days halted fuel distribution from a crucial pipeline on the East Coast of the United States. Now, a different attack over the weekend is threatening […]
4 proven approaches to CX strategy that make customers feel loved
Rebecca Liu-Doyle Contributor Rebecca Liu-Doyle is principal at Insight Partners, a global private equity and venture capital firm. Her focus areas include high-growth software, marketplaces, and consumer internet. < p id=”speakable-summary”>Customers have been “experiencing” business since the ancient Romans browsed the Forum for produce, pottery […]