Monthly Archives: May 2023

Pitch Deck Teardown: Ageras’ $36M Private Equity deck

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Most of the pitch decks we cover in the Pitch Deck Teardown series are for relatively young companies, but to celebrate our 50th pitch deck teardown, I figured I’d do something slightly different. Today, we’re looking at Ageras‘ pitch deck, … Continue reading →

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Alibaba to take its cloud, AI and business messenger unit public

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Seven weeks after Alibaba announced its historic restructuring plan to split itself into six independent companies, the juggernaut is gearing up to take its cloud intelligence group public through a separate listing. Alibaba went public in New York back in … Continue reading →

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Neuralink competitor Paradromics gets one step closer to FDA approval for its brain implant

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Paradromics has received the Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA

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Twitter now allows paid users to upload two-hour long videos

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Twitter has made changes to its paid plan allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit. The company also modified its Twitter Blue page and said the video file size limit for paid users is now … Continue reading →

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1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure. The rollout signals 1Password’s expansion beyond credential … Continue reading →

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Apple execs were reportedly skeptical on headset, with one likening it to a ‘science project’

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Bloomberg reported that Apple’s long-awaited headset project has suffered from a lack of vision, varied executive support and shifting design approaches.

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Charm gets $53 million to turn corn leftovers into oil and inject it into abandoned oil and gas wells

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Frontier has $1 billion in commitments for carbon removal and on Thursday announced its first big deal for carbon to be sequestered with Charm Industrial.

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Alibaba plans to list cloud division as quarterly revenue misses expectations

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

Alibaba announced plans to spin off its cloud division as a separate, publicly-traded company. The e-commerce titan’s quarterly revenues missed expectations.

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FTC says popular fertility tracking app Premom shared sensitive data with Chinese analytics firms

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges. The FTC’s investigation into Premom, a fertility tracking app developed by Easy Healthcare that allows users to … Continue reading →

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Percent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Techme101

In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit. Seeing an opportunity to tackle the lack of risk management in the market, Chu created a marketplace that enables investors … Continue reading →

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