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This week, we’re taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced “ripples”), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million. Rypplzz uses radio waves to provide location tracking since they are supposedly more precise and easier to work with than GPS. Venues like museums and sporting arenas can use its tech to help guide visitors through their space or deliver information depending on their location. I have to admit, this deck didn’t set me alight, so I was a bit surprised by its success. Still,…

Four-year-old agricultural AI startup Kissan AI’s founder Pratik Desai last month unveiled Dhenu 1.0, a seven billion parameter large language model for agriculture.Named after Kamadhenu, a divine bovine-goddess described in Hinduism as the mother of all cows, the model is trained on high-quality conversational datasets, specially focused on Indian agriculture practices. Dhenu is an agricultural LLM specifically designed to help Indian farmers with agriculture-related questions.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value…

This week’s Pitch Deck Teardown comes to you from the PCB-laden confines of CES in Las Vegas. Today, we’re looking at the slide deck that video analytics firm Qortex used to raise a $10 million seed round. Qortex uses AI to help brands, media companies and creators identify the right moments in a video to insert an ad and maximize engagement, so this is going to be a fun one. So, without further commercial interruptions or preamble, let’s get to it.  We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you…

Gurugram-based fintech startup SalarySe has raised $5 million in its first institutional funding round from Peak XV’s seed fund Surge and Pravega Ventures.The startup was founded in the middle of 2023 by IIT graduates Piyush Bagaria and Saumeet Nanda along with Mohit Gorisariya, a chartered accountant. It is building a technology platform to offer credit on digital payment railroad Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of…

Happy New Year, and welcome to the 78th installment of Pitch Deck Teardown! This week, we are taking a closer look at Pepper Bio‘s seed pitch deck that landed the company $6.5 million. With the slogan “The end of untreatable,” the company is taking on a hell of a challenge: Finding solutions for all those illnesses doctors can’t target well at the moment. Unlike CancerVax (which I ripped apart in a previous teardown for being completely unbelievable), Pepper Bio has a strong team and a lot of promise. We’re looking…

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Express logistics and supply chain solutions startup Oxyzen Express said it has raised $3 million, or Rs 25 crore, in the second tranche of its seed capital funding round. The company said the fundraise happened through the course of the current financial year with Tamil Nadu Emerging Sector Seed Fund (TNESSF, a SEBI registered AIF managed by Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Fund Management Corporation Limited) and SNAM Group of Companies (a manufacturing conglomerate in alloys and abrasives) as lead investors. A host of other…

When Helsing raised a $223 million Series B round, the tech world saw it as continued confirmation that defense was unquestionably back on the investing agenda. Further confirmation comes today, in news shared exclusively with TechCrunch, in the form of a $5.5 million seed round for U.K. defense tech startup Labrys Technologies, led by Germany’s Project A Ventures. Also participating were MD One Ventures, Marque VC, Offset Ventures and Expeditions Fund. The funds will be used to expand the development and R&D…

Originally a Facebook group started during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 that people used to cook healthy meals for others nearby, HomeCooks has now evolved into a comprehensive marketplace for chefs. It facilitates the entire process for its chefs, from cooking to delivery, and offers over 200 meal options. The company recently raised $3.2 million in crowdfunding on Seedrs. Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has grown rapidly and today serves around 7,000 customers. Let’s look…

About 2% of the world’s CO₂ emissions come from pressurized, jet-powered sausages careening through the air. Earlier this week, I covered one startup, Metafuels, that thinks it has a solution for reducing aircraft emissions. I was able to talk the company’s founders into giving me the pitch deck for their $8 million seed round so we could do a deep dive into the materials it used to raise the funding. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do…