India's top telecom launches new wireless plug-and-play 5G hot spot

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By Christine Hall Monday, August 28, 2023

Today's top story is about India's retail giant, Reliance. And the company has been busy making news, so we actually have a trio of stories. First, the company launched its 5G hot spot Jio AirFiber. Then, guess who is now on Reliance Industries' board? Meanwhile, Reliance's financial services unit will now offer insurance and merchant lending. Read more. Next, we all know that airline flight prices are volatile. A new tool from Google Flights will tell you when it's the cheapest time to book. And OpenAI doesn't want to hold back enterprise from all the fun of ChatGPT. It now has a plan for that. Image Credits: Busà Photography / Getty Images

More top reads If you can't find it, make it yourself: A splinter group officially launches an OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform. Find out more. Good news and bad news: X saw weekly active users and rankings drop post rebrand; however, there was one bright spot: Twitter Lite installs grew. Answering the call: DoorDash launches an AI-powered voice ordering technology for restaurants. Read more. Business-in-a-box: Moxie raises $15.7 million to make opening med spas easier. Get the scoop. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: After Threads did it, Bluesky adds a way to see your own likes. And other new things. Find your next funding: Geek Ventures targets immigrant founders with its first fund. Read more. In it to win it: After successfully landing on the moon, India now has its sights set on something bigger — the sun. Learn about its new solar observatory mission. WhatsApp, Doc?: Leadsales developed a conversational commerce tool so small businesses in Latin America can manage sales via WhatsApp. Send it back: Mexico-based Devolut is getting out in front of a burst of e-commerce growth in Latin America with a reverse logistics tool aimed at making it easier to return items. Get the scoop. That one time, at TechCrunch: Our fearless leader, Matthew Panzarino, reflects on his 10 years at TechCrunch. IPOhhhhhhhh: The public markets need some inspiration. Will Klaviyo's IPO provide it? (TC+) Weekend warriors you might have missed: A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims' devices 'deleted' from server Yes, in my backyard (TC+) Never express your 'use of funds' slide as percentages (TC+) Looking for your next book? These 9 authors have reading recommendations for you (TC+) Image Credits: Thomas Barwick / Getty Images

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From today's "pod" files Today's Equity is catching you up on stocks around the world. The team also covered how Instacart and Klaviyo are bringing tech IPOs back, and Didi selling part of its business to Xpeng.

Never express your 'use of funds' slide as percentages Building a pitch deck is like four-dimensional chess: Founders should present a convincing narrative that will carry the company from one fundraising round into the next. Some teams like to share slides that explain how they plan to allocate investor funds, but Haje Jan Kamps says percentage breakdowns are a “red flag” to potential investors. “How much tech do you need to have developed? How many customers and how much revenue do you need? What staff do you need to develop that tech, sell to those customers, and support them? . . . In other words: You're raising for milestones, not for percentages or runway.” TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription. Read More Image Credits: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch+

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Zepto, now valued at $1.4B, is India’s first company to get its horn this year

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By Christine Hall Friday, August 25, 2023

Today's top story is about a venture-backed startup that has quietly bought up over 80 mom-and-pop shops. And not to sell them, either. Find out what Teamshares plans to do with them all. Meanwhile, India-based instant grocery delivery startup Zepto bagged $200 million in fresh funding to boost it over the $1 billion valuation mark. Thus making it India's first 2023 unicorn. Read more about it. Next, Instacart filed it’s long-awaited S-1 filing to go public. We share five things you need to know. (TC+) And quiet quitting is coming to social media in the European Union. A new law enables social media users to decline the option of having personalized content feeds based on relevance. That's not all. Image Credits: Zepto

More top reads Someone didn't study: Find out how Byju's ended up exposing sensitive student data, including loan details. Read more. MOVEit by the numbers: Speaking of hacks, MOVEit turned out to be the biggest one of them all this year, and we break down how. It's all about marketing yourself: Selling real estate is all about getting your face out there so buyers and sellers want to work with you. Enter Luxury Presence, which raised $19.2 million to build marketing tools for Realtors. Now go make a name for yourself. Narrowing it down: Joby Aviation is choosing between Ohio or North Carolina for a new air taxi factory. Maybe you can help. There's no one in the driver's seat: Polestar 4 will feature Mobileye's hands-off, eyes-off driving tech. Get the scoop. Trying to make some sense of it all: From the Podcast Movement conference come two YouTube stories. One is that it put out a new video in hopes of better explaining its short-form video platform for creators. See for yourself. The other discusses new plans for podcasters and music lovers. For your reading pleasure. Too many bad apples ruined the bushel: Dropbox is getting rid of its unlimited storage options, placing the blame on crypto miners and resellers for taking advantage. Read more. $12,626: That's about how much each of the 3,500 Tesla investors stand to get from an SEC settlement, minus the lawyer fees, of course. Where it began, where it ended. Take some more news into your weekend: Qase raises $7.2M to help companies manage their software tests OnlyFans' profitability proves the creator economy boom was real enough (TC+) Pitch Deck Teardown: BusRight's $7M Series A deck (TC+) Orbital Composites lands new government contracts to advance in-space manufacturing Former president Trump returns to Twitter, now X, with his mugshot Image Credits: Indranil Aditya/Bloomberg / Getty Images

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From today's "pod" files Not gonna lie, I enjoy writing about how poop tells us things about our bodies, and I have written about it . . . a lot. On today's Equity, it was Alex's, Mary Ann's and Kirsten's turn to discuss how the list of TechCrunch Battlefield 200 companies features a lot of startups focused on excrement. That and how Nvidia's earnings were a blowout, Better.com's SPAC listing was crappy and Cruise had an accident. Read More Image Credits: Bryce Durbin

Making AI trustworthy: Can we overcome black-box hallucinations? Characters in cartoons might imagine giant hot dogs when they’re hungry, but a large language model (LLM) can hallucinate for a variety of reasons, such as poor data quality or an unclear prompt. Major AI platforms “infer and extrapolate based on what they believe to be the most likely answer, not actual data,” according to Dr. Mike Capps, CEO and co-founder of Diveplane. Instance-based learning, on the other hand, compares training data points “against each other to gain insight into the dataset and the predictions,” says Capps. “In other words, IBL ‘shows its work.'” TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription. Read More Image Credits: Customdesigner / Getty Images

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