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For the next three days, the newsletter is a bit later than usual. It is for fun reasons that we want to be the first to tell you about our companies. You can find them in our Battlefield section. This is the first time that we have ever sat next to each other and written.

The TechCrunch Top 3

  • Someone’s having a good day: Jasper, which calls itself an “AI content” developer, raised its first round of funding ever — and a big one at that, at $125 million, to give it a $1.5 billion valuation, Kyle reports. It also comes as the company is in the process of acquiring a grammar- and style-checking platform, Outwrite.
  • Turning renters into owners: Christine provides an update on Landis, which raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company buys homes on behalf of clients while also providing a patch for them to build up their credit and eventually get a mortgage on the home they rent.
  • So, Apple had an event: Romain gives you a look at the new entry-level iPad that he says looks just like the iPad Pro. Alas, it’s also more expensive, but you get a larger screen. Priorities, amirite?

Startups and VC

According to Will Ventures, venture capital funds focused on niche sectors are in. The low-flying Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow the portfolio companies

Rebecca reports that Turo will expand to Australia before the end of the year. Turo has a waiting list for local car owners in all major cities.

Have a few more.

News Drops from Disrupt

Next year, Los Angeles will be home to the first-ever "Crypto Startup School", a program that will be run by ChrisDixon. He gave more information on the investment in Adam Neumann.

Two people sat in on an interview with a man who is working on a new sports ticketing startup and gave some information on the sale of Diapers.com.

Mike Verdu, VP of gaming for the streaming service, talked to the girl about opening a gaming studio in the area and getting into cloud gaming.

Startup Battlefield

I think it is Disruuuuuupt! We can barely keep up with the excitement. If you want to know more about the 20 companies that are presenting on the Disrupt Stage earlier today, you can check out the first batches of Battlefield companies here. The first batches were pitched today.

The startup is looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter.

Openai's DALLE-2 and GPT3 models can be used to generate visuals and text for ads for social platforms.

Circular Genomics claims it can identify which drugs will work for a patient in a fraction of the time.

Through text messaging, frontline workers can be reached.

AppMap was built on the idea that developers should be able to see the behavior of software so they can prevent problems when the software runs.

The new commerce offering aims to give employees more freedom when it comes to caring for a loved one.

We can all carry around an artificial intelligence dialogue assistant that we can use on our phones.

The way for electric solar vegetation cuts and sidewalk snow plowing was paved by swap robotics.

Hormona hopes that people with periods will add hormones to their health mix.

Staax thinks peer-to-Peer payments can help a new generation of stock investors.

How to combine PLG and enterprise sales to improve the funnel and drive bottom-line growth

Product-led growth (PLG) startups still launch marketing campaigns and hire sales teams even though their products and services sound great.

Kate Ahlering is the chief revenue officer at Calendly.

In this guest post, Ahlering lays out a number of strategies that teams can use to implement a hybrid Gtm strategy.

How to combine PLG and enterprise sales to improve your funnel

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The membership program helps startup teams get ahead of the game. This is where you can sign up. You can get a 15% discount on an annual subscription.

Big Tech Inc.

We have more for you from the event. The company's new M2 iPad Pro will arrive on October 26. He talks about things like chips and inches and a pencil.

It's even more Apple for you to like.

We have all the Battlefield companies for you to read.

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