Daily Crunch: Ring wants to modernize your apartment's intercom system

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Today, Haje is especially thrilled that he was able to convince the TechCrunch Plus team to let him release one of his Pitch Deck Teardowns without the paywall. If you're not a TC+ subscriber and curious about what a review of a $65M funding round at a $1.7B valuation looks like, today's your day to chance. In addition to the giveaway, this can be a particularly good time to subscribe, as we're having a Labor Day sale on TC+ annual subscriptions.

We're also going to Minneapolis soon, and we've just released the schedule for the free TechCrunch virtual event that should have been called "All Eyez on Mi(nnesota)". With my apologies to Tupac.

Happy rest from your Thursday, and know that Friday is so close we can almost smell the sweet stench of a Labor Day long weekend. Aaaaah. — Christine and Haje

TechCrunch's top 3 When the doorbell rings you: Ring has a brilliant new feature called Ring Intercom, designed to pair with existing home intercom systems. Brian has more. Valuation increase: Fintech fraud fighter Alloy is now worth $1.55 billion after taking in $52 million in new funding, reports Mary Ann. Sharing is caring: Kyle spoke to Slack executive Steve Wood about the company's new automation features that make workflows more shareable and discoverable by other Slack users, and management what the company takes from there. Startups and VCs

Reddit's acquisition frenzy continues this morning with the announcement that the company is bringing technology from audience contextualization company Spiketrap in-house. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Reddit says Spiketrap's contextual analysis and AI-powered tools will help Reddit improve in areas like ad quality ratings and will strengthen prediction models to power automatic bidding, reports Sarah.

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