McCarthyFinch sounds a bit like a law firm — and with good reason. The startup has developed an AI as a Service platform aimed at the legal profession. This week, itcompeting in the 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco.

The company began life as a project at a leading New Zealand law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts. They

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People like to say that brick-and-mortar retail is dead, but direct-to-consumer businesses continue to dabble with physical stores all the same.

Why Because brick-and-mortar retail provides businesses with benefits an online shopping platform can&t, namelyconsumer experiences that create and sustain shoppers& relationships with

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Meet PoLTE, a Dallas-based startup that wants to make location-tracking more efficient. Thanks to PoLTEsoftware solution, logistics and shipment companies can much more easily track packages and goods. The startup is participating in TechCrunchStartup Battlefield at Disrupt SF.

If you want to use a connected device to track a

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Afterlaunching a $36 million fund earlier this year to help support black female founders,Backstage Capital isn&t showing any signs of slowing down. Today, the fundfounder and managing partner Arlan Hamilton announced that it will launch an accelerator to further amplify and support the best companies led by underestimated founders.

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mSpy, a commercial spyware solution designed to help you spy on kids and partners, has leaked over 2 million records including software purchases and iCloud usernames and authentication tokens of devices running mSky. The data appears to have come from an unsecured database that allowed security researchers to pull out millions of records.

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Meet Stealthy a new messaging app that leverages Blockstackdecentralized application platform to build a messaging app. The company is participating in TechCrunchStartup Battlefield at Disrupt SF and launching its app on iOS and Android today.

On the surface, Stealthy works like many messaging apps out there. But it gets

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