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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 21, 2021! News today was all over the map, including a number of items dealing with a very particular former U.S. president. TechCrunch has all the details, along with lots of crypto-focused news, product updates from Big Tech and a cacophony of startup items. Lets go! Alex

Kicking off our startup coverage today, founder and operator group The Fund is putting together The Fund XX, which TechCrunch reports will become a community of women investors and entrepreneurs that will make pre-seed and seed-stage investments. Something to keep an eye on.

Next, well take a look at a triple threat of crypto stories, and then dig into a host of discrete startup news items:

And now, the rest of the news:

The tide is high for startup founders who are looking to raise their first round in October 2021.

But easy money can create special pressure for early-stage founders, according to Lightup.ai founder Manu Bansal.

You cant speed up GTM with more money. If valuations go up astronomically, I remind myself that I have to deliver performance, he says.

If I cannot show traction, sooner or later this beast will come back to haunt me. Id rather avoid the price runners.

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