Topic: market validation
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Unlisted Pre-Matches Home Sellers With Buyers Before Listing
Unlisted is a real estate platform that connects potential buyers with homeowners before properties are officially listed for sale, addressing a gap in the market. The platform uses public records to create home profiles and allows buyers to join waitlists, signaling interest directly to homeowne...
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How AMD's Stock Will Fund OpenAI's Billion-Dollar Chip Deal
OpenAI will fund its multi-billion dollar AMD chip purchases using stock warrants, receiving up to 160 million shares as it helps AMD improve its Instinct GPU line and deploys significant computing capacity. The partnership could see AMD's stock value surge, potentially making OpenAI's stake wort...
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BizzyNow Launches Equity Crowdfunding Round on Mamacrowd
BizzyNow, an Italian professional networking startup, is raising €150,000-€400,000 via equity crowdfunding to fund its go-to-market strategy and product development at a €3 million pre-money valuation. The app targets spontaneous, in-person meetings ("Bizzy Moments") by using geolocation and AI t...
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Milestone Secures $10M to Bridge AI Investment and ROI
Businesses struggle to measure generative AI's impact on software development, but Milestone's platform links AI usage to concrete engineering outcomes and recently secured $10 million in seed funding. Milestone integrates data from codebases, project management, and AI tools into a centralized s...
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Get Paid to Chat: Rent a Cyber Friend at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Francesco Vitali initially doubted the idea of paying for conversation but trusted his partner's vision, leading to the creation of Rent a Cyber Friend, a video chat platform where users pay per minute for verified companions or specialized discussions. The platform has grown organically to three...
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Upwind Secures $250M at $1.5B Valuation for Cloud Security Platform
Upwind Security has achieved a $1.5 billion valuation after securing $250 million in Series B funding, driven by significant revenue growth and a client base that includes major companies like Siemens and Peloton. The company's core innovation is an "inside-out" runtime security model, which uses...
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