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Fintech VC funding hit a fresh quarterly record of $22.8 billion in the first three months of 2021, according to CB Insights data. While mega-rounds helped propel overall funding, new cash was spread across 614 deals.

Insider has been tracking the next wave of hot new startups that are blending finance and tech.

Check out these pitch decks to see how fintech founders are selling their vision and nabbing big bucks in the process. You'll see new financial tech geared at freelancers, fresh twists on digital banking , and innovation aimed at streamlining customer onboarding.

A blockchain-based fintech startup that is aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating peoples' creditworthiness recently raised $30 million in a Series B funding led by credit reporting giant TransUnion.

Four-year-old Spring Labs aims to create a private, secure data-sharing model to help credit agencies better predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. The founding team of three fintech veterans met as early employees of lending startup Avant.

Existing investors GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital also joined in on the most recent round. So far Spring Labs has raised $53 million from institutional rounds.

TransUnion, a publicly-traded company with a $20 billion-plus market cap, is one of the three largest consumer credit agencies in the US. After 18 months of dialogue and six months of due diligence, TransAmerica and Spring Labs inked a deal, Spring Labs CEO and cofounder Adam Jiwan told Insider.

Lance is a new digital bank hoping to simplify the life of those workers by offering what it calls an "active" approach to business banking.

"We found that every time we sat down with the existing tools and resources of our accountants and QuickBooks and spreadsheets, we just ended up getting tangled up in the whole experience of it," Lance cofounder and CEO Oona Rokyta told Insider.

Lance offers subaccounts for personal salaries, withholdings, and savings to which freelancers can automatically allocate funds according to custom preset levels. It also offers an expense balance that's connected to automated tax withholdings.

In May, Lance announced the closing of a $2.8 million seed round that saw participation from Barclays, BDMI, Great Oaks Capital, Imagination Capital, Techstars, DFJ Frontier, and others.

Jason Wenk started his career at Morgan Stanley in investment research over 20 years ago. Now, he's running a company that is hoping to broaden access to financial advice for less-wealthy individuals.

The startup raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners with participation from investors Vanguard and Venrock. The round brings the Los Angeles-based startup's total funding to just under $67 million.

Founded in 2018, Altruist is a digital brokerage built for independent financial advisors, intended to be an "all-in-one" platform that unites custodial functions, portfolio accounting, and a client-facing portal. It allows advisors to open accounts, invest, build models, report, trade (including fractional shares), and bill clients through an interface that can advisors time by eliminating mundane operational tasks.

Altruist aims to make personalized financial advice less expensive, more efficient, and more inclusive through the platform, which is designed for registered investment advisors (RIAs), a growing segment of the wealth management industry.

While countless small businesses have been harmed by the pandemic, self-employment and entrepreneurship have found ways to blossom as Americans started new ventures.

Half of the US population may be freelance by 2027,according to a study commissioned by remote-work hiring platform Upwork. HoneyBook, a fintech startup that provides payment and operations support for freelancers, in May raised $155 million in funding and achieved unicorn status with its $1 billion-plus valuation.

Durable Capital Partners led the Series D funding with other new investors including renowned hedge fund Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, and 01 Advisors. Citi Ventures, Citigroup's startup investment arm that also backs fintechrobo-advisorBetterment, participated as an existing investor in the round alongside Norwest Venture partners. The latest round brings the company's fundraising total to $227 million to date.

Onboarding new customers with ease is key for any financial institution or retailer. The more friction you add, the more likely consumers are to abandon the entire process.

But preventing fraud is also a priority, and that's where Neuro-ID comes in. The startup analyzes what it calls "digital body language," or, the way users scroll, type, and tap. Using that data, Neuro-ID can identify fraudulent users before they create an account. It's built for banks, lenders, insurers, and e-commerce players.

"The train has left the station for digital transformation, but there's a massive opportunity to try to replicate all those communications that we used to have when we did business in-person, all those tells that we would get verbally and non-verbally on whether or not someone was trustworthy," Neuro-ID CEO Jack Alton told Insider.

Founded in 2014, the startup's pitch is twofold: Neuro-ID can save companies money by identifying fraud early, and help increase user conversion by making the onboarding process more seamless.

In December Neuro-ID closed a $7 million Series A, co-led by Fin VC and TTV Capital, with participation from Canapi Ventures. With 30 employees, Neuro-ID is using the fresh funding to grow its team and create additional tools to be more self-serving for customers.

Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay host millions of third-party sellers, and their algorithms will often boost items in search based on consumer sentiment, which is largely based on reviews. But many third-party sellers use fake reviews often bought from click farms to boost their items, some of which are counterfeit or misrepresented to consumers.

That's where Fakespot comes in. With its Chrome extension, it warns users of sellers using potentially fake reviews to boost sales and can identify fraudulent sellers. Fakespot is currently compatible with Amazon, BestBuy, eBay, Sephora, Steam, and Walmart.

"There are promotional reviews written by humans and bot-generated reviews written by robots or review farms," Fakespot founder and CEO Saoud Khalifah told Insider. "Our AI system has been built to detect both categories with very high accuracy."

Fakespot's AI learns via reviews data available on marketplace websites, and uses natural-language processing to identify if reviews are genuine. Fakespot also looks at things like whether the number of positive reviews are plausible given how long a seller has been active.

Consumers are getting used to the idea of branch-less banking, a trend that startup digital-only banks likeChime,N26, andVarohave benefited from.

The majority of these fintechs target those who are underbanked, and rely on usage of their debit cards to make money off interchange. But fellow startup HMBradley has a different business model.

"Our thesis going in was that we don't swipe our debit cards all that often, and we don't think the customer base that we're focusing on does either," Zach Bruhnke, cofounder and CEO of HMBradley, told Insider. "A lot of our customer base uses credit cards on a daily basis."

Instead, the startup is aiming to build clientele with stable deposits. As a result, the bank is offering interest-rate tiers depending on how much a customer saves of their direct deposit.

Notably, the rate tiers are dependent on the percentage of savings, not the net amount.

"We'll pay you more when you save more of what comes in," Bruhnke said. "We didn't want to segment customers by how much money they had. So it was always going to be about a percentage of income. That was really important to us."

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As law firms and their clients seek to digitize and streamline work, VCs have been opening their wallets to the growing legal-tech space. The total value of deals in the global market to date this year clocks in at $974 million already surpassing the $603 million figure from 2020, according to data from PitchBook.

Private equity firms are also increasingly eyeing legal tech, investing more than $3.6 billion in Q1 of 2021 alone, according to market intelligence platform Bodhala.

Here's a look at our legal-tech pitch deck collection.

Athennian, which helps law firms and legal departments manage data and workflow around legal entities, raised a $7 million CAD (more than $5.5 million USD) Series A extension in the beginning of March,nearly doubling its initial $8 million Series A round last year.

Athennian's revenue and headcount more than doubled since the original Series A, according to founder and CEO Adrian Camara. He declined to disclose revenue numbers, but said that the sales and marketing team grew from 35 people in September to around 70 in March.

Launched in 2017, Athennian is used by nearly 200 legal departments and law firms, including Dentons, Fastkind, and Paul Hastings, to automate documents like board minutes, stock certificates, and shareholder consents.

The Series A extension was led by Arthur Ventures. New investors Touchdown Ventures and Clio's CEO, Jack Newton, also participated in the round, alongside Round13 Capital and other existing investors. To date, Athennian has raised $17 million CAD, or around $14 million USD, in venture capital funding, per Pitchbook.

Contract tech is the frontrunner in the legal tech space, as companies across industries seek to streamline their contract creation, negotiation, and management processes.

Evisort, a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, raised $35 million in its Series B announced late February, bringing total funding to $55.5 million. The private equity firm General Atlantic led its latest funding round, with participation from existing investors Amity Ventures, Microsoft's venture firm M12, and Vertex Ventures.

Founded in 2016, Evisort uses artificial intelligence to help businesses categorize, search, and act on documents.

Its CEO Jerry Ting founded Evisort while he was still attending Harvard Law School. He spent one summer working at Fried Frank, but soon realized that he didn't want to be a lawyer because he didn't want to spend excruciating hours manually reading fifty-page contracts. He did, however, recognize how important they are to corporations, and co-founded Evisort as a tool to locate and track valuable information like a contract's expiration date and obligations like payment dates.

Try to imagine the contracts negotiation process, and one might conjure up a scene where a sheaf of papers, tucked discreetly into a manila folder, is shuttled from one law office to the mahogany table of another. With a stroke of a fountain pen, the deal is sealed.

Those old-school methods have long been replaced with the adoption of PDFs, redlined versions of which zip from email inbox to inbox. Now, contracting is undergoing another digital shift that will streamline the process as companies are becoming more comfortable with tech and are seeking greater efficiencies and investors are taking note.

Contractbook, a Denmark-based contract lifecycle management platform, late last year raised $9.4 million in its Series A investment round, led by venture capital titan Bessemer Venture Partners. In November 2019, Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, led Contractbook's $3.9 million seed round.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2017, Contractbook uses data to automate documents, offering an end-to-end contracts platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Niels Brchner, the company's CEO and cofounder, said that Contractbook was born out of the notion that existing contract solutions failed to use a document's data from names of parties to the folder the document is stored in to automate the process and drive workflow.

Cloud-based technology is having its moment, especially in the legal industry.

As attorneys have been propelled to work remotely amid the pandemic, data security and streamlined work processes are top-of-mind for law firms, leading them to adopt cloud technology.

Investors aretaking note.Disco, a cloud-based ediscovery platform that uses artificial intelligence to streamline the litigation process, snapped up $60 million in equity financing inOctober.

Its Series F, led by Georgian Partners and also backed by VC titans like Bessemer Venture Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners, brings total investment to $195 million, valuing the company at $785 million.

Launched in Houston in 2012, Disco offers AI-fueled products geared towards helping lawyers review and analyze vast quantities of documents, allowing them to more efficiently determine which ones are relevant to a case.

BlackBoiler is an automated contract markup software that's used by Am Law 25 firms and several Fortune 1000 companies.

The software uses machine learning to automate the process of reviewing and revising documents in "track changes." This saves attorneys the time they would typically spend marking up contracts that often use standard boilerplate language.

As a pre-execution software used in the negotiation and markup stage of the contracts process, BlackBoiler has carved out a unique space in the $35 billion contracts industry, said Dan Broderick, a lawyer who cofounded the company in 2015 and is now its CEO.

Broderick walked Insider through the pitch deck the company used to attract funding from investors, including DocuSign as well as 10 attorneys that run the gamut from Am Law 50 partners to general counsel at large corporations.

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Police in Greece have been mercilessly thrashed for letting a Picasso crash to the floor just hours after they recovered the invaluable painting, nearly a decade after it was stolen from the national gallery.

Television footage of a news event to announce the recovery on Tuesday shows the 1939 painting, "Head of a Woman," slowly slide from the podium of the police ministry's conference hall and hit the ground.

A man in a T-shirt and mask, but no gloves, quickly props it up again.

Ikea Greece posted a snap image on Facebook of a picture ledge the do-it-yourself (DIY) furniture giant sells under the hashtags #picasso and #oops.

Fellow DIY chain Plaisio was more direct, with a photo of the actual painting resting on a frame tripod, and the hashtag #itwillneverfall in Greek.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Thursday criticized the accident but insisted both paintings "appear to be in good condition."

Gifted by Pablo Picasso to Greece in 1949, "Head of a Woman" had been stolen alongside "Stammer Windmill," painted by Dutchman Piet Mondrian, during a break-in at the gallery in Athens in 2012.

A state report found that security had not been upgraded for over a decade, with the then-police minister calling safeguards "non-existent."

Police said a 49-year-old builder had confessed to stealing the works of art and had been arrested.

Mendoni has said the painting would have been "impossible" to sell as it has a personal inscription by Picasso on the back "For the Greek people, a tribute by Picasso."

The Spanish master had gifted it to the Greek state in recognition of the country's resistance to Nazi Germany during the painful 1941-44 occupation.

The self-confessed thief said he had initially stashed the paintings at home, but later hid them in a gorge in Keratea, 45 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of Athens.

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As the decade-plus resurgence in vinyl sales continues, one thing that has become all too noticeable for buyers is the often steep price of being a vinyl snob. From heavyweight vinyl to hard-laminated cardboard packaging, a single LP usually sells for around $30, thus making most off-beat sales prohibitive for the more casual collector.Lately, though, cassette tapes have come to the rescue. Once the province of the romantic mixtape maker looking to show off their good taste and curatorial skillsto say nothing of their roles as de facto love letters or breakup notesthe pre-recorded, artist-driven cassette tapes costs were on an equal footing with vinyl album sales prices. Looking at the days before the revolution that was (supposed to be) CDs boosted the price of an artists music, the cassette tape and the vinyl LP usually topped off at about $8. And like the vinyl LP, the cassette, too, went into a hibernation of sorts, banished to an image of antiquation, yard sales, and thrift store bins near the front counter.

That is, until indie artists within the last 10 years rediscovered the intimate and easy-to-hold joys of the cassette; to say nothing of the niceness of its price point in the manufacturing stage, as well as for fans at live shows and during Bandcamp sales days. These devoted fans were looking to spend and support, but not risk not being able to pay rent. And with that, the cassette tape became a solid option in which to release music without gauging the consumer.

But what of the major labels? Rather than letting the smaller independents have all the fun, how and when would the majors take advantage of the trend? The answer comes this spring as RecordingTheMasters reel-to-reel tape manufacturers have teamed up with ThinkIndie Distribution to license and reissue a handful of recently released major label albums on cassette for the first time. So far, the genre-jumping, broad-scope series includes Sturgill Simpsons Cuttin Grass, Vol. 1, Diplo and Major Lazers Peace Is the Mission, Maren Morris GIRL, Lupe Fiasco & Kaelin Ellis HOUSE EP, The Story So Fars Proper Dose, Killswitch Engages Atonement, and The Mavericks, En Espaol.

Whats funny is that in the world we live in, were often thinking about how something will fit a Facebook format versus an Instagram format, so adjusting the original packaging to the new/old cassette format was not an unfamiliar process. The Mavericks Jerry Dale McFadden

Outside of Record Store Days offering catalog items as new raritiessuch as July 2021s RSD Drop of Pearl Jam cassettesthis is the first time any major label artists have found their acts recent or newest works in cassette form. Longtime Mavericks member Jerry Dale McFadden has forever art-directed and created covers for his band. Considering the process of shrinking often gorgeous designs for CDsand now cassetteposes the challenge of making art workable for odd cassette shaping, which was a breeze when it came to their recent album.

We just got lucky on En Espaol; using a solid-color background for the album cover made converting it into a cassette format much easier, he says. Whats funny is that in the world we live in, were often thinking about how something will fit a Facebook format versus an Instagram format, so adjusting the original packaging to the new/old cassette format was not an unfamiliar process.

Talk to McFadden about the overall glory of the cassette format, of growing up and making mixtapes for friends, lovers, and those you wish to woo, and not only does he agree, he claims that after all of his years of collecting music, its his cassettes that remain. Theyre all I have left in my collection. For various reasons, I sold off my vinyl and CDs once most of the music I listened to was on various devices. I still have boxes and boxes of my cassettes. Probably half of them are homemade mixtapes, or tapes friends made me throughout the years. Theyre very sentimental to me.

The RTM/Think Indie alliance, and choosing a work as audacious as their first all Spanish-language album, came after McFadden and bandmate Raul Malo were connected with this project by David Macias, the head of The Mavericks distribution company Thirty Tigers. En Espaol had just been released to a #1 debut at the time, and we were thrilled to hear the cassette company was interested, McFadden continues. Releasing this album was a big focus for us over the past few years, and with it already available on several different physical and digital formats, we jumped at the chance to add cassette to the collection.

Scott Register of ThinkIndie believes the cassette form has several levels of appeal. For certain generations, its nostalgia, he starts. For younger ones, everything old is new again, and theres a cool factor to it. And, believe it or not, I know music fans who prefer the analog sound of these cassettes to other mediums.

For certain generations, its nostalgia. For younger ones, everything old is new again, and theres a cool factor to it. And, believe it or not, I know music fans who prefer the analog sound of these cassettes to other mediums. Scott Register, ThinkIndie

As one who distributes and licenses the music, ThinkIndies collaboration with RTM has to do with cost consciousness and the competitiveness of the more prohibitive aspects of the 180-gram vinyl revolution. Cost consciousness is always in the equation when were deciding on what to release, says Register. We dont want to turn off the consumer or get them upset with our customers, the indie stores. With that said, its apples to oranges when youre talking cassette price versus vinyl. The vinyl threshold seems to be getting higher. I hope it stops climbing or goes back down, but with that said, the consumer doesnt appear to be turned off for the most part just yet, especially if its for a superiorly produced product with bells and whistles.

While admitting that the cassette market might not be for everyone (I see it being more genre-specific or artist-specificthen again, not too long ago, the vinyl market wasnt for everyone), Register says the release of these new and recently released touchstones from name-brand artists such as Major Lazer and Marin Morris are selling well. Theres a learning curve and were still way on the front side of it. Were optimistic that the interest from the artists and from the consumers will continue to grow. As we see sales of vintage boomboxes continue to grow, and electronics companies rolling out more and more new models, thats encouraging as it signals demand, and the folks that are purchasing them are gonna need cassettes to play on them.

Neal Birnie, the Chief Music Officer of RecordingTheMasters seconds those emotions. Along with agreeing on the nostalgia factor and the physical nature of having to operate a play mechanism, Birnie remarks upon the one-time failing of the cassette form. The sound is a huge factor because, personally, I remember cassettes always being a bit low-quality, hidden somewhere in the carbut as a company were flying the flag for superior-sounding cassettes. The feedback we get from our tapes compared to others of years ago is a testament to the hard work that goes into what we do.

And with that, the costs reflect the quality, as RTM is one of the last remaining tape manufacturers in the worlda company that specializes in all things tape, and prides itself on high-end reel-to-reel tapes used in studios around the world. The same high-end tape is used for all of our cassettes, so the quality is unlike any other. Theres been a similar comparison with alternative vinyl versions of a release, 180-gram, audiophile, etc. We think our cassettes will naturally find their place in the marketthe quality will shine through.

Most recently throughout lock down, cassettes have been able to support independent artists in a big way. Artists that made an album during lockdown were able to have a physical product to sell in under three weeks on cassetteits motivating from both ends of the spectrum. Neal Birnie, RecordingTheMasters

Keen to get a wide range of styles and genres onto RTM tape, there are huge recent and back catalogues to dive into. To that end, Birnie digs the notion of giving stone cold classics a new lease of life on our tape. On the other hand, and most recently throughout lock down, cassettes have been able to support independent artists in a big way. Artists that made an album during lockdown were able to have a physical product to sell in under three weeks on cassetteits motivating from both ends of the spectrum.

As for the future of cassette sales and releasing opportunities, from his partnership or in general, Birnie states that Whether its the die-hard fan wanting all the different versions of their favorite album, a new generation experiencing cassette for the first time, straight up nostalgia, or self-releasing independent artists, the cassette form is important, its sound and sales encouraging from every angle, and were excited to be a part of it. FL

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Brush up on maritime law now because Below Deck Mediterranean Season 6 is about to set sail! Thats right, the Bravo series returns with a whole lot of new yachties and of course plenty of drama as well.

Captain Sandy Yawn is back to lead the Lady Michelle motor yacht, and bosun Malia White returns as well, as this ship sails around the gorgeous waters of Croatia. Theres a brand new chief stew, Katie Flood, a delightfully fun deck team, and a stew that (hopefully) works as much as she twerks. Plus, it doesnt take long for the brand new Chef, Mathew, to think about bailing.Oh, and you already know there are some demanding charter guests that will have the vacation of their lives or else.

So how can you watch the new season? Its actually never been easier!

It already did! Thats right, you can currently watch the first episode of Below Deck Mediterranean Season 6 on Peacock. But for Bravo devotees, your favorite summer series officially returns tonight, Monday, June 28th.

The Season 6 premiere will air at 9 pm ET/PT on Bravo.

Its nearly impossible to miss the boat on this one. You can always catch up on BravoTV.com or the Bravo Now app, so long as you authenticate with your cable or satellite provider, including sites such as YouTube TV or Hulu Live. If youre a dedicated streamer, you can watch Below Deck Med on Peacock, where new episodes will be dropping one week before they air on Bravo.

Below Deck Mediterranean airs Monday at 9pm ET/PT on Bravo.

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Shot Stop is moving across the street in Aggieville to 1215 Moro Street, the former site of Keltic Star.

Brett Allred, who owns Shot Stop, Yard Bar and Johnny Kaws in Aggieville, said the new Shot Stop location will open in August.

Its a really nice facility, he said.

With the move, Shot Stop will offer food, which it didnt used to do. Its kitchen also will serve patrons in Yard Bar next door at 1213 Moro Street.

During the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Allred said he took the time consider the long-term options for his businesses, which led to the decision to move Shot Stop next to Yard Bar. The two bars will be connected.

Its a lot better deal for us long-term, he said.

In addition, Allred is remodeling Johnny Kaws, which is across the street at 1218 Moro St., with two new large dance floors. Allred said he and his staff are getting ready to reopen it soon.

He said he figured it wouldnt be until this August that college kids would come back to Aggieville and things would realistically go back to normal. Luckily, Allred said, business returned sooner than he predicted.

I was on a month-to-month lease, and basically I was really considered walking away from all the stuff I had in Manhattan with all the unknowns and the fear that the students were going to leave, Allred said.

Aggieville Business Association Director Dennis Cook said he hasnt heard any plans for the space being vacated by Shot Stop and the closure of Bomb Bar, which was another Allred bar next door to Shot Stop.

Allred said he is excited to provide entertainment again to the community with the new location and upgrade at his businesses.

Thats what Im looking forward to, is getting everything going, he said.

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CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Lighting, a Savant company is pleased to release its new mobile CYNC app, CYNC Indoor Smart Camera, and CYNC Outdoor Smart Plug as unveiled at the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The new offerings are now available nationwide to give consumers even more smart home solutions for the indoors and outdoors to create a whole home connected experience.

Existing C by GE products, GE Lightings previous name for its smart home product line, will officially transition to CYNC branding over the coming months and are fully supported and work with the CYNC app and new CYNC products.

Introducing the New CYNC, Powered by Savant Mobile App

The new CYNC, powered by Savant app is a revolutionary platform that includes enhanced personalization and seamless control of all past and present C by GE products, as well as present and future CYNC products. The app creates a more user-friendly and customizable experience that enhances comfort, control, confidence and convenience.

It includes functionalities from Savants award-winning Pro technology such as the patented TrueImage feature that gives consumers the ability to preview color and brightness changes using a photo of their room in the app. The app controls the entire CYNC network to create whole home automation inside and out.

The app is available for free and downloadable on the Apple Store and Google Play. It works with versions iOS 14 and up, or Android 8 and up. Current C by GE app users received an update to the CYNC app via a push to their devices.

CYNC Goes Outside With Outdoor Smart Plug

The CYNC Outdoor Smart Plug allows consumers to independently control two outlets from the CYNC app or with your voice and Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. Perfect for easily managing holiday lights, pathway lights, fountains, pools and more from the comfort of inside the home. Weather resistant, it includes both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, making it the perfect solution for plugging in patio lights and outdoor speakers to unlock the perfect backyard oasis.

The Outdoor Smart Plug carries an MSRP of $29.99 and is available at Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Lowes.com (and coming soon to Target).

CYNC Launches New Indoor Camera

The CYNC Indoor Smart Camera brings brilliant picture and security to homes, and most importantly puts consumer data privacy first. Unlike some other connected cameras, it offers a privacy shutter for peace of mind a cover that surrounds the front lens, slides upwards and locks in place to physically cover the lens and turn off the audio when consumers want the Camera shut off.

The Camera also features a micro SD card port that allows consumers the option to save their data to the card, instead of the cloud, for enhanced data privacy and security. A subscription cloud service, called Cam CYNC, gives consumers access to data anywhere easily and costs $3/month or $30/year per camera.

The Indoor Smart Camera carries an MSRP of $69.99 and is available at Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and Lowes.com.

CYNC Indoor Smart Home Products Coming Soon

This summer, GE Lighting, a Savant company will also roll out its new CYNC Fan Speed Smart Switch to further expand its line of smart switches for every application in the home. The product allows for simple control of ceiling fans and provides the ability to control a fan from the CYNC app anywhere inside or outside the home, without the need for a hub. The CYNC Fan Speed Smart Switch can be scheduled to come on/off at specific times, features four fan speeds for dialed-in comfort, and can be grouped with other CYNC/C by GE devices for additional room control.

About GE Lighting, a Savant company

Headquartered at historic NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio, our roots date back nearly 130 years to Thomas Edison and the invention of the worlds first light bulb. Today, as part of Savant Systems Inc. were bringing the future to light by ensuring brighter lives and a more sustainable world through innovation and energy efficiency in lamps, switches, fixtures and so much more. Were also unleashing the ultimate personalized living experience through a growing suite of smart home products that help consumers connect with confidence and experience the comfort, quality and security for which GE branded products are known. Learn more at gelighting.com.

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Smarten up your lighting for less today with Amazons one-day sale on C by GE smart light bulbsRemove non-product link. The online retailer is selling a variety of C by GE bulbs ranging in price from around $12 for a single white bulb to $28 for a two-pack of full color illuminators. In addition, the sale includes a GE indoor security camera. The deals end just before midnight on Monday evening, Pacific time.

First up, we have the C by GE Full Color Direct Connect smart bulbs. A single one will set you back $14 instead of the usual $20, or you can get a two-pack for $28 down from $45. Similar to TP-Links Kasa bulbs, C by GE bulbs dont require a hub. Instead they connect directly to your Wi-Fi network. Once connected, you can turn on the lights remotely, set schedules, and so on. These bulbs work Amazons Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control, and they are equal in strength to a 60 watt incandescent bulb.

If you dont need bulbs that turn blue or red on demand, you can also get the regular white bulbs. A single smart bulb is $12 down from around $17, and the two-pack is $21 instead of $30. The white bulbs support the same features as the full color bulbs save for the color changes.

Finally, the sale includes the GE Cync indoor Wi-Fi smart camera for $49 down from the usual $70. We first saw this product at CES 2021 in January. It features a physical shutter for added privacy that also shuts off the microphone. The camera captures in 1080p, offers two-way audio, and comes with support for HDR, night vision, and pan and tilt.

Its not a huge sale, but theres some solid smart home gear available at good prices today. Act fast if youre interested though, as these discounts disappear tonight.

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The latest report on the Indoor Farming Lighting market is an all-inclusive assessment of the business sphere and highlights the vital parameters of the industry including current trends, industry size, market share, present remuneration, periodic deliverables, and profit estimates over the forecast timeline.

Under COVID-19 outbreak globally, this report provides 360 degrees of analysis from supply chain, import and export control to regional government policy and future influence on the industry. Detailed analysis about market status (2015-2020), enterprise competition pattern, advantages and disadvantages of enterprise products, industry development trends (2020-2025), regional industrial layout characteristics and macroeconomic policies, industrial policy has also been included. From raw materials to end users of this industry are analyzed scientifically, the trends of product circulation and sales channel will be presented as well. Considering COVID-19, this report provides comprehensive and in-depth analysis on how the epidemic push this industry transformation and reform.

In COVID-19 outbreak, Chapter 2.2 of this report provides an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and the Indoor Farming Lighting industry.Chapter 3.7 covers the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of the industry chain.In addition, chapters 7-11 consider the impact of COVID-19 on the regional economy.

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The Indoor Farming Lighting market can be split based on product types, major applications, and important countries as follows:

Key players in the global Indoor Farming Lighting market covered in Chapter 12:Urban Crop SolutionsEverlight ElectronicsArgus Controls SystemsPhilips LightingCerthonNetafimValoyaBIOS LightingThriveagritechIllumitex

In Chapter 4 and 14.1, on the basis of types, the Indoor Farming Lighting market from 2015 to 2025 is primarily split into:HPSMHCMHCFLLED

In Chapter 5 and 14.2, on the basis of applications, the Indoor Farming Lighting market from 2015 to 2025 covers:Fruits & VegetablesHerbs & MicrogreensFlowers & OrnamentalsOthers

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2015-2025) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14:North America (Covered in Chapter 7 and 14)United StatesCanadaMexicoEurope (Covered in Chapter 8 and 14)GermanyUKFranceItalySpainRussiaOthersAsia-Pacific (Covered in Chapter 9 and 14)ChinaJapanSouth KoreaAustraliaIndiaSoutheast AsiaOthersMiddle East and Africa (Covered in Chapter 10 and 14)Saudi ArabiaUAEEgyptNigeriaSouth AfricaOthersSouth America (Covered in Chapter 11 and 14)BrazilArgentinaColumbiaChileOthers

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Years considered for this report:Historical Years: 2015-2019Base Year: 2019Estimated Year: 2020Forecast Period: 2020-2025

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Table of Content:Chapter One: Indoor Farming Lighting Introduction and Market OverviewChapter Two: Executive SummaryChapter Three: Industry Chain AnalysisChapter Four: Global Indoor Farming Lighting Market, by TypeChapter Five: Indoor Farming Lighting Market, by ApplicationChapter Six: Global Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by RegionsChapter Seven: North America Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by CountriesChapter Eight: Europe Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by CountriesChapter Nine: Asia Pacific Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by CountriesChapter Ten: Middle East and Africa Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by CountriesChapter Eleven: South America Indoor Farming Lighting Market Analysis by CountriesChapter Twelve: Competitive LandscapeChapter Thirteen: Industry OutlookChapter Fourteen: Global Indoor Farming Lighting Market ForecastChapter Fifteen: New Project Feasibility Analysis

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