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How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Rea

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The future of retail and office space is up in the air, and proptech investors are optimistic

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.The malls and grocery stores of the 20th century are b

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Teemyco creates virtual offices so that you can grab a room and talk with colleagues

Meet Teemyco, a Stockholm-based startup that wants to reproduce office interactions in a virtual environment. The company wants to foster spontaneous interactions and casual collaboration with a room-

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What happens when public SaaS companies don’t meet heightened investor expectations?

Late last week we discussed how, this deep into the earnings cycle, it appeared that public SaaS and cloud companies had largely made it through the Q2 gauntlet unscathed. Sure, through last week ther

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It’s not just Airbnb; an IPO expert pushes back against the SPAC frenzy and other new ways to going public

Lise Buyer has been advising startups on how to go public for the last 13 years through her consultancy, Class V Group. She built the business after working as an investment banker, and then as a dire

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Demodesk snags $8M Series A to continue developing sales demo platform

It is clear that as the pandemic has taken hold in 2020, in-person meetings have gone by the wayside. Yet sales teams still need a way to demo their products for potential customers, particularly SaaS

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FB Messenger chief Stan Chudnovsky is coming to Disrupt

Stan Chudnovsky last spoke at Disrupt in 2016, so we’ve got a lot to catch up on.Chudnovsky remains in charge of Facebook Messenger — his current title is VP of Messenger — so he can tell us m

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Klaxoon teases new interactive meeting product for video calls

French startup Klaxoon is currently testing a new product called Board. The company expects to launch Board at some point during the second half of September. Board is a new visual interface that conn

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S&P, Nasdaq close at record highs in tech-fueled rally

The front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in New York City, New York, U.S., June 26, 2020. /Reuters The SP 500 and Nasdaq boasted record closing highs on Tuesday with tech

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Toss Lab raises $13 million Series B for its collaboration platform JANDI, the ‘Slack of Asia’

As Slack ramps up its investment in Asia, Toss Lab, the South Korea-based creator of enterprise collaboration platform JANDI, is preparing to become a more formidable rival. The startup announced toda

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Global Business Daily: Zoom profits, retail resurge, European job data

"The retail industry globally was being profoundly disrupted even before the pandemic."That's Simon Freakley, CEO of AlixPartners, speaking to CGTN Europe as part of our Redesigning the Future series

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Former Blink-182 star on UFO research: 'I wouldn't have left music behind to chase monsters and ghosts'

Sky News speaks to Angels And Airwaves frontman and former Blink-182 star Tom DeLonge about his UFO research show, Unidentified.

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As it delists, Rocket Internet’s ill-fated experiment with public markets is over

It was all supposed to be so different. When Rocket Internet IPO’d in 2014 it was the largest tech company floatation in Europe for 7 years. A year later it had lost $46m and it’s valuation had droppe

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Zoom’s Q2 report details some of the most extraordinary growth I’ve ever seen

Many companies have posted the occasional big quarter. These outsized periods may come when a business sells part of itself, or, through some arcane non-cash financial hijinks, it posts impressive num

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Zoom profits shoot higher as it eyes 'future of working anywhere'

The company's second quarter profits climbed to $185.7m compared to just $5.5m over the same period a year ago.

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Gillmor Gang: Platforming

Much was made during the Republican Convention of the lack of a party platform. The media characterized this as a capitulation to the Cult of Trump phenomenon, but the questioned begged was: so what?

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Zoom forecasts sales surge as video conferencing becomes more demanded

Zoom Video Communications Inc raised its annual revenue forecast by more than 30 percent after comfortably beating quarterly estimates on Monday as it converts more of its huge free user base to paid