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The company closed $5 million to expand the reach of its robotic smart blender, Christine reported. We prefer smoothie robot over robot that kills people. Brian wrote an article about how the police department in San Francisco can userobots to kill people. Monarch delivered its first "smart tractor."

It seems like Mozilla is spending a lot of money. Kyle reported that it acquired Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision, while Paul wrote that the company snapped up the team behind Pulse.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One’s $20M Series A deck

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Hour One uses artificial intelligence to convert text into video.

The company raised $5 million in a seed round and $20 million in a Series A.

  • Cover slide
  • “At a glance” summary slide
  • Solution slide
  • Market size slide
  • Value proposition slide
  • Product slide 1
  • Product slide 2
  • Target audience slide
  • Case study slide
  • Team slide
  • Closing slide

The good, the bad, and the ugly are in the company's pitch deck.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One’s $20M Series A deck

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We have to point out that there has been a lot of "FAFO" going on in theTwitterverse, and the latest to do so is Yeezus The social media giant suspended Musk's account again after he broke their rules again. West decided not to buy Parler after all.

In the world of corporate shake-ups, Mary Ann delivered a headline for her story on Opendoor's CEO, who stepped down today, while the space company Astra is restructuring its management team after Benjamin Lyon resigned.

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