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The TechCrunch Top 3

• Giving videos a voice: MrBeast was among the first YouTubers to test out a new multilanguage audio feature that is now being rolled out for creators so that they can upload just one video and dub it in dozens of languages. Sarah has more.

• Hear that?: Samsung wants you to have that crystal-clear smartphone communication in places where there is no cellular network connectivity, so it developed its own satellite-based solution, Ivan writes.

• "Towns” hall crier: Taylor writes about Houseparty founder Ben Rubin’s new open source group chat app called Towns. Built as a decentralized app, it enables people to “build better hometowns on the internet” to “truly own their town squares.”

Startups and VC

While most VCs will tell you they had no problem raising their newest fund, Volition co-founder Larry Cheng — an alum of Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Partners and Fidelity Ventures — says that wasn’t his experience when trying to raise the firm’s latest vehicle. “All of the LPs felt more constrained; we could feel it,” reports Connie.

The cloud is growing expensive. More than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. ProsperOps raises $72 million to help, Kyle reports.

And we have five more for you:

• Continuously, cheaper: Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integration to make it faster and cheaper, Ron reports.

• What private jet?: Logistics startup Slync raises $24 million, attempts to distance itself from disgraced founder, Kyle reports.

• The final account-down: Mary Ann reports that Trust & Will secures $15 million after doubling revenue.

• We can barely contain ourselves: BlueCargo reduces logistics late fees by tracking containers in port terminals, reports Romain.

• Raising? More like r-AI-sing, amirite: Source.ag raises $23 million to raise the bar on raising crops with AI, Haje reports.

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