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Indian crypto entrepreneur’s blockchain venture seeks seed funding at $200 million valuation

Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its Web3 development kit

August 24, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 180 ViewsAfterPay, api, applovin, blockchains, ceo, Co-founder, coinbase, Coinbase Ventures, computing, cryptocurrencies, Cuban, ethereum, Furqan Rydhan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Haun Ventures, Katie Haun, London, Shopify, smart contract, social media, Steven Bartlett, technology, thirdweb 5 min read

There’s been a lot of hype about “Web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to Web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development […]

Upstream’s new vault could help NFT holders sleep at night

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Upstream’s new vault could help NFT holders sleep at night

August 3, 2022August 10, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 174 Viewsalex taub, Bitcoin, blockchain, blockchains, crypto, Cryptocurrency wallet, Custody, dao, digital wallet, economy, ethereum, JPEG, money, NFT, NFTs, non-fungible token, security, Shopify, Startups, upstream, Wallet 4 min read

Imagine paying millions of dollars for a JPEG of a monkey just to have it stolen from your digital wallet. That’s exactly what happened to actor Seth Green, who ended up pleading with the hacker (and likely paying them over $100,000) to return the NFT back to him. Green’s predicament is more common than one […]

Bounty raises $4.7M to help everyday TikTokers make money from reviews

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Bounty raises $4.7M to help everyday TikTokers make money from reviews

August 2, 2022 Lauren Forristal 160 ViewsAds, bounty, brands, content creator, e-commerce, influencer, Influencer Marketing, Marketing, Shopify, social media, Startups, TikTok, user generated content 4 min read

Bounty, an online service that helps TikTok creators monetize brand reviews and recommendations, announced today it closed on a $4.7 million seed round led by early-stage consumer tech VC firm M13. The new service, currently in beta, is designed for everyday TikTok users — not just professional creators — who want to earn money by […]

Shopify makes $100M strategic investment in marketing automation startup Klaviyo

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Shopify makes $100M strategic investment in marketing automation startup Klaviyo

August 2, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 163 ViewseCommerce, funding, Klaviyo, martech, retail, Shopify, Startups 2 min read

E-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has received a $100 million strategic investment from Shopify, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The disclosure coincided with the announcement that Klaviyo and Shopify will strengthen their existing partnership by making Klaviyo the recommended email product for Shopify’s premium merchant plan, Shopify Plus, while […]

Gradient Ventures-backed Shypyard aims to ‘raise the sales’ for DTC merchants

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Gradient Ventures-backed Shypyard aims to ‘raise the sales’ for DTC merchants

July 27, 2022 Christine Hall 202 ViewsAnaplan, artificial intelligence, bigcommerce, business, Dan Li, economy, entrepreneurship, Gradient Ventures, Inventa, inventory, Japan, LinkedIn, liquid 2 ventures, overstock, Position Ventures, Samping Chuang, Shopify, Shypyard, Snapcommerce, Startup company, Startups, supply chain management, venture capital, Zippedi 2 min read

Shypyard provides tools for entrepreneurs who want to start an e-commerce business but don’t know how to do it.

Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

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Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

July 26, 2022 Christine Hall 184 ViewsAvid Ventures, Balance, Bar Geron, chemicals, e-commerce, forerunner ventures, HubSpot Ventures, kirsten green, lightspeed ventures, managing partner, Marketing, online shopping, PayPal, Ribbit Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Shopify, Startups, steel, supply chain, Yoni Shuster 3 min read

The company is working now with hundreds of merchants and dozens of B2B marketplaces, a 10-time increase since last year.

Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify

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Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify

July 15, 2022 Christine Hall 189 ViewsAlgolia, Anthony Casalena, api, business software, CommerceIQ, Dawn Capital, Denmark, GitHub, headless commerce, Javascript, Localglobe, medusa, Mina Mutafchieva, Nicklas Gellner, Oliver Juhl, Sebastian Rindom, Shopify, shopware, Software, squarespace, Startups, Swell, Venture capital investment, woocommerce 4 min read

Medusa aims to offer APIs beyond the standard marketplaces ones for merchants to build more advanced features like fulfillment, subscriptions or a wholesale channel.

Promoted grabs more funding to help e-commerce marketplaces achieve profitability

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Promoted grabs more funding to help e-commerce marketplaces achieve profitability

July 1, 2022August 10, 2022 Christine Hall 155 Viewsalibaba group, Amazon, Andrew Yates, Interlace Ventures, marketplace, Michael Seibel, Outschool, Pinterest, Promoted.ai, Shopify, taobao, Technology Development, Tmall, Vela Partners, websites, Y Combinator 3 min read

For many marketplaces, those search, recommendation and ad functions are typically siloed, but Promoted has them all under one umbrella.

This Week in Apps: Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok

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This Week in Apps: Twitter Notes, Instagram age verification, Spotify’s Live Events

June 25, 2022 Sarah Perez 198 ViewsAndroid, api, app-store, Apple, arkansas, artificial intelligence, artist, Australia, bahrain, brazil, Canada, China, coinbase, computing, driver, e-commerce, Elon Musk, european union, fitbit, Fortissimo Capital, free tools, freeware, Ghana, Google, Hinge, ikea, Indonesia, Instagram, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Italy, Kazakhstan, kuwait, London, Machine Learning Technology, Meta Pay, ming-chi kuo, mobile applications, mobile device, News, oman, online events, operating systems, over-the-air software, password manager, qatar, Saudi Arabia, Shopify, SMS, Snap, Snapchat, social media, Software, south korea, Spotify, This Week In Apps, TikTok, Tim Cook, Twitter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Uganda, united arab emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Yoti 17 min read

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]

rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

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rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

May 5, 2022 Tage Kene-Okafor 204 Viewsafrica, Angellist, api, Bain Capital, bangladesh, Banking, berlin, Better Tomorrow Ventures, brazil, breyer capital, coinbase, corporate finance, economy, Egypt, Elad Gil, entrepreneurship, finance, financial technology, Lachy Groom, Lateral Capital, latin america, Mexico, money, moven, Nigeria, pakistan, Private Equity, Rali_cap, Rally Cap Ventures, Sheel Mohnot, Shopify, South Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Startup company, stripe, Target Global, Tofino Capital, United States, venture capital, Yoco 6 min read

Rali_cap, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first […]