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These days, it seems like everyone with extra cash has some kind of pricey drinking habit. It might be fine wine, craft beer or cocktails. Or it could come in the form of coconut water, cold-pressed juice or the latest frothy caffeinated concoction.
No matter what your preference, startups and
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Read more: Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future
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TechCrunch is excited to announce that the Startup Battlefield Latin America is coming to São Paulo on November 8 this year. This is the first event TechCrunch has ever held in Latin America, and we are all in to make it a memorable one to support the fast-emerging startup ecosystem in the region.
The Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premier s
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Read more: Announcing TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Latin America in São Paulo on Nov. 8
Write comment (95 Comments)Shak Lakhani, the 21-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Avro Life Science, started researching biomaterials when he was 15 years old.
Every summer and after school the teenager would travel nearly two hours by bus and train from the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Toronto where he lived to the tissue engineering lab at the University of
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Read more: Replacing pills with a Band-Aid Avro Life Science thinks there’s a patch for that
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Say you have a job with a large company and you want to know how much vacation time you have left, or how to add your new baby to your healthcare. This usually involves emailing or calling HR and waiting for an answer, or it could even involve crossing multiple systems to get what you need.
Leena AI, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 class,
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Read more: Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically
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Two sites that are actively cataloging failed crypto projects, Coinopsy and DeadCoins, have found that over a 1,000 projects have failed so far in 2018. The projects range from true abandonware to outright scams, and include BRIG, a scam by two “brothers,” Jack and Jay Brig, and Titanium, a project that ended in an SEC investigation.
Obviously any
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Write comment (100 Comments)When Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 interviewed for Y Combinator’s 2018 cohort, a question stood out to founder Obi Ozor. “What’s holding you back from becoming a unicorn,” they asked. “My answer was simple,” said Ozor. “Working capital.”
Kobo360 was accepted into YC’s 2018 class and gained some working capital i
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Read more: Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC, raises $1.2 million
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