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You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it.

TechCrunch 20 May 2026 1h ago
You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it.
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Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started — especially when ARK had already been burned by a company operating in the same space. On this episode of TechCru
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