Slapping “AI” in your startup’s pitch deck is principally desk stakes proper now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup with out these two letters within the highlight, it acquired us questioning how the dialog even began — particularly when ARK had already been burned by an organization working in the identical area.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie Bort sits down with Dylan Robbins, founder and CEO of Lucra, the white-label platform turning pleasant competitions into loyalty applications for manufacturers like golf programs, arcades, and pickleball golf equipment.
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