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Calm acquires healthcare technology company Ripple Health Group | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 2 | 2 | Meditation app is acquiring , a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Calm says the acquisition will accelerate its mental health care ambitions. Following the acquisition, Ripple Health Group CEO David Ko will take on the role of Calm co-CEO, alongside Michael ... |
Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 2 | 2 | has raised for its “no code” automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code. It then seamlessly integrates in your continuous integration (CI) pipeline. Insight Partners is leading today’s Series A round, with participation from Matrix Partners ... |
How the conflict in Ukraine threatens US cybersecurity | Philip Reiner | 2,022 | 2 | 2 | As Russian troops stand poised to yet again invade Ukraine, much attention has been focused in recent days on how to avoid escalation of the conflict. Recent (and likely ongoing) escalations in cyberattacks on Ukraine suggest that this conflict will be unfortunately severe in the digital domain. And unlike a ground inv... |
PrimaryBid raises $190M to double down on making it easier for ordinary people to invest in IPOs and follow-on fundraises | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 20 | Thanks to the growth of fintech, financial services like investing are getting ever more accessible to the wider population of consumers. Now, one of the bigger players pushing the boundaries of that concept is announcing a big round of funding on the heels of strong demand and what it believes are even bigger opportun... |
Philippines payment gateway PayMongo gets $31M Series B, will explore regional expansion | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 2 | 20 | PayMongo founders (from left to right): Jaime Hing III, Chief Technology Officer, Francis Plaza, Chief Executive Officer and Luis Sia, Chief Commercial Officer Philippines-based fintech , which enables merchants to accept digital payments, announced today it has raised $31 million in Series B funding with an eye on re... |
India’s CRED eyes investment in Amazon-backed Smallcase | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Indian fintech CRED is in talks to back the Bengaluru-headquartered startup Smallcase, three sources familiar with the matter said, as the Tiger Global and Alpha Wave Global-backed firm looks to expand its wealth offerings to customers. CRED’s proposed investment in Smallcase values the startup in the range of $300 mil... |
Fintech Roundup: What investors really, really want | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 2 | 20 | Jake Gibson and Sheel Mohnot / Better Tomorrow Ventures It’s always fun to see a company I’ve covered at a very early stage go on to raise more capital in a relatively short amount of time. And, I’m a sucker for startups that tackle “unsexy” but very important industries. That’s why I enjoyed reporting on how , whic... |
New regulation in China to hit food delivery giants’ profit model | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 2 | 20 | Between 2016 and 2020, the number of people who ordered food online in China to 400 million. The boom was in part thanks to the generous subsidies shelled out by the country’s food delivery contenders for customers and businesses. As two companies, Meituan and Ele.me, came to dominate the market, they began to raise ... |
Experts Weekly: Recruiting recruiters, crypto marketing, earned media 101 | Miranda Halpern | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Do you have recent experience recruiting talent for pre-revenue startups? If this describes you — or someone you know — please read . Facebook began allowing crypto companies to advertise on its platform last December, but marketers should be aware of the limitations. Reporter John Biggs walks readers through the bas... |
LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | LG’s innovation center — among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focuse... |
Reusable packaging startup bags $3.1M to pick a fight with single-use packaging | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Quick pop quiz: Is it better to recycle your cardboard boxes, or use a sturdier packaging bag that can be used again and again until it meets its maker again? ‘s bet is the latter, and the company just raised $3.1 million from , continue the work the company has been doing with Estée Lauder, New Balance, Rent t... |
Better.com loses more senior execs as employees brace for another mass layoff | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | News of Wallace’s departure was leaked on Blind earlier this month when an internal email was . The turmoil may be impacting the outfit’s bottom line. The company disclosed in a recent SEC filing that its fourth-quarter net loss may reach $182 million, while revenue fell as much as 22% from the previous quarter. In th... |
Daily Crunch: Meta fires executive after ‘predator catchers’ interview video goes viral | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 18, 2022! First, a note that much of TechCrunch is off Monday for a U.S. holiday, so some regular stuff might land a day later than usual. But we’re a global team, so we will not be quiet to start next week. That’s a promise. – And from the Equity team, ? / Get... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Fintech investor survey, data-driven fundraising, VC scouting jobs | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | The public markets may have cooled on fintechs in recent months, but for entrepreneurs who are still considering starting up, “outlook good,” says the Magic 8 Ball. In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services cre... |
Goodbye Samsung Galaxy Note, hello S22 Ultra | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | I was a skeptic when Samsung . And I certainly wasn’t alone among the crowd at the Messe Berlin that IFA. The 5.3-inch display was unimaginably large in a year when the average screen measured a hair over 3.5 inches. The stylus graced the phone like a vestigial organ — some strange and unnecessary relic from the days... |
Extreme H is an upcoming off-road racing series with hydrogen cars | Kris Holt | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | An off-road racing series that uses hydrogen cars is to debut in 2024. Extreme H will be a companion championship to , an off-road motorsport with electric vehicles that . The two series will hold races in the same locations on the same days using the same format. According to Alejandro Agag, who also founded , or... |
Walmart is expanding autonomous delivery pilot with GM’s Cruise this year | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Cruise plans to expand the self-driving delivery pilot it has with Walmart in Arizona, the company’s senior government affairs manager said in a recent public meeting with state legislators. The autonomous vehicle company, which is a , is mostly focused on testing — and eventually launching — a commercial robotaxi ser... |
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The average person doesn’t have a chance with the smart home | Owen Williams | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Owen’s HomeKit setup. The author’s messy smart hubs piled up in a closet. , Matter promises to bring the smart home together. Matter |
ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | A spokesperson wrote via e-mail: “We are excited for the opportunity to continue partnering with world class investors, board members and organizations at every level.” |
For startups, the message is clear: Grow fast or die | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | crossed the $800 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold last year , but more notable was its growth rate of greater than 80% during the same period. That’s a wild expansion pace for a company of Databricks’ size, and it backed up its CEO’s general vibe that his team could weather any change in market condit... |
FBI eyes ransomware profits with new cryptocurrency crimes unit | Carly Page | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a new unit dedicated to tracking crimes and profits. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the formation of the Virtual Asset Exploitation Team (VAXU) during a speech at the Munich Cyber Security Conference this week, saying the unit will help the U... |
Do you want your paycheck in crypto? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, and and got together with and to rock our regular Friday news roundup. This time, however, with extra zip, as we’re staring down a long weekend that, let’s be clear, e... |
Meta axes a head of global community development after he appears on video in underage sex sting | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development, is no longer employed by the company after a video went viral on , which was then reposted on and , featuring him in a sting operation conducted by amateurs with the intent ... |
Build a versatile startup team to make pivots easier | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Steve Blank’s definition of a startup is “a temporary organization in the search of a repeatable business model”. Temporary, because as soon as you have built a machine where you pour $10 into the top of it, and $11 falls out of the bottom, you’re no longer a startup. Or, if you run out of cash, and the whole thing col... |
Snapchat is rolling out a new buddy system-like real-time location sharing feature | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | is rolling out a new buddy system-like feature that will allow users to share with a friend their real-time location for 15 minutes or a few hours, the company announced on Friday. The new global feature is meant to help users look out for their friends as they continue to resume their social life, return to campus or... |
Sirona Medical acquires Nines’ AI algorithms to rebuild radiology’s IT from the ground up | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | Sirona Medical, a company developing an “operating system” for digital radiology, has acquired — a company that has developed FDA-cleared analysis and triage algorithms. This acquisition comes during a somewhat shaky moment in AI-based radiology. But Sirona is betting this move proves out its thesis: to bring AI into... |
Coatue backs Kubecost’s goal to supply data to millions of Kubernetes developers | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 2 | 18 | In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior. For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and run applications. Kubernetes is one of the most-used tools... |
Future Retail, Amazon’s estranged partner in India, scales down operations | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 27 | Future Retail, India’s second largest retail chain, is scaling down its operations to reduce losses, it said, the latest casualty in its years-long battle with estranged partner Amazon. The firm, led by Kishore Biyani, said in filings to the stock exchanges that it has been finding it “difficult to finance the working ... |
Ukraine takes the resistance to cyberspace, assembling an ‘IT army’ to hack sites from Russia and its allies, calls on tech leaders to get involved | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 27 | As Ukraine continues to make efforts to mobilize and equip ordinary citizens on the ground to resist Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country, those who are outside Ukraine who want to help are being asked to get involved in the fight in the virtual world. While the G7 (today with the ) mobilize to to the Swift b... |
Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now? | Carly Page | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there. Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have shown an ever-increasing appetite for over the past 18 months. The cybersecurity industry experienced what is being hailed by some a... |
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What does a real economist think of cryptocurrencies? | John Biggs | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Tyler Cowen is an economist and writer who co-founded the popular blog, . A professor at George Mason University, Cowen was named one of the Economist’s top 36 economists who were most influential over the past decade. He’s a popular thinker and blogger in a world of academics, and his work has appeared in Bloomberg a... |
Fintech Roundup: More female founders in fintech? Yes, please | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 2 | 27 | My heart goes out to all the people of Ukraine and our TechCrunch readers there. Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography Co-founder and CEO Lily Liu / Piñata Still, we have a long way to go in seeing more equal gender representation when it comes to leadership roles in fintech. In 2020... |
Daily Crunch: At SpaceX’s Starship update event, Musk offers updates on plans, progress | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 11, 2022! Today we’re talking big rockets, self-driving cars, tech stocks getting rekt, and more. It’s a fun, and good mix of news. Enjoy! – And the first live Equity taping of the year was this week, which was good fun. ! Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG... |
Reface, a viral face-swap app from Ukraine, adds anti-war push notifications | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 27 | , an synthetic media app that’s developed out of Ukraine, has added push notifications informing its ~200 million-strong global user-base about Russia’s invasion of the country — urging people to #StandWithUkraine, including by watermarking face-swapped videos created with the app. On first opening the app after this... |
A new main series Pokémon game is coming in late 2022 | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 27 | Step aside, whatever “ is — the ninth generation of Pokémon is coming. This morning, a broadcast announced “Pokémon Scarlet and Violet,” the latest installment in the main series Pokémon games after “Pokémon Sword and Shield” came out in late 2019. The Nintendo Switch games are expected to be released in late 2022. ... |
Citing ‘changing real estate market,’ Utah-based Homie lays off one-third of its staff | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | On its LinkedIn page, the company said: Today, we made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our company based on the impacts of the changing real estate market. It was the hardest decision we have ever had to make. Each and every one of these talented individuals are not just our co-workers; they are our friend... |
Startups are evolving to manage growth alongside profitability | Amit Anand | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | a matter of time. As more tech companies go public, the necessary disclosure has meant that with access to more information on the financial condition of many startups, mainstream investors have begun questioning just how profitable and sustainable these startups are. Naturally, this has resulted in some skepticism, a... |
Zendesk spurns $17B private equity takeover offer | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | on your door waving a check for $17 billion, you have to let them in for a chat. But when presented with that very offer this week from a consortium of private equity firms, board on grounds that it undervalued the company. In a statement, they said they were duty-bound to review such an offer, but after doing so,... |
The James Webb Space Telescope takes a selfie and a big step towards its first ‘real’ image | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | An apparatus as complex as the James Webb Space Telescope takes a little while to get running, so while it entered its orbit late last month, it’s still working through its startup process. , with Webb spotting its first star, 18 times over. And it took a selfie to celebrate. As you probably know if you’ve glanced at ... |
Of course, Netflix ordered a movie about the big crypto scandal | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | When news broke earlier this week that the Department of Justice had seized of allegedly stolen bitcoin, we had some questions. What do these revelations mean about government intervention in crypto? Will this scandal impact the decentralized finance sphere in the long term? Most importantly, which streaming service ... |
Google’s adtech targeted by publisher antitrust complaint in EU | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Google’s dominance of the online ad market has been targeted by another antitrust complaint filed in the European Union by a coalition of publishers. This time it’s the (EPC) — whose members include the CEOs of News UK, Condé Nast, New York Times, Axel Springer and The Guardian, among others — arguing that, beginning... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Investor warning signs, China’s AV frenzy, 2022 insurtech trends | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | February 2014 seems so long ago. Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox shut down after it was hacked, the Nokia X was unveiled at Mobile World Congress, and Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server & Tools division, was promoted to the CEO spot, replacing Steve Ballmer. To mark the eighth anniversary of Nadella’s ascension, en... |
Why Affirm’s stock is getting hit, and what the selloff means for the BNPL startup market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | building buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is long. Just this year we’ve seen , , , and that appears to include BNPL services. There were other funding events and product launches, but that’s enough of a sample for us to understand that private-market investors around the world are investing in the consumer chec... |
Twitter is down, so you’ll have to wait a little longer to scream into the void | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | It looks like Twitter’s wings have been clipped. Twitter has been down since about 12:15 PM ET today, per user reports on . Going on for at least 45 minutes, the outage appears to be selective — some users are having more trouble than others (personally, I wasn’t able to post a joke about , but it’s also possible Twi... |
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship event leaves a lot of questions around the company’s big rocket | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Elon Musk delivered an update on the company’s progress and plans for Starship, its next-generation launch spacecraft, from the Starship development site in Boca Chica, Texas. Musk had an impressive backdrop — the combined Starship and Super Heavy booster launch craft, standing nearly 400 feet tall. But much of what Mu... |
How much is a pitch deck really worth? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had the full crew aboard today for our live taping, headed by our killer production team and , and hosting crew , and . Overall, it was a success? Our streaming tech took us to v... |
RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’ | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app... |
Agot AI gives restaurants computer vision to see where food orders go wrong | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders. That need continues to grow. In 2021, some 60% of Americans at least once a week, and 31% use... |
How Texas is becoming a bitcoin mining hub | Leigh Cuen | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | of pounds of bitcoin mining equipment still in transit from China to Texas, part of a multi-month caravan, as Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes a pinnacle part of his re-election campaign in 2022. Texans are broadly looking to pick up on China’s missed opportunity, as the forces bitcoin mining operations to relocate... |
Can an AI be properly considered an inventor? | Dave Davis | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | Several years ago, I wrote a piece titled “ .” As I looked over the state of several interesting questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright at that time, my bottom line was pretty simple: If the copyright laws and regulations required a work to contain the expression of a human person, then ... |
Chasing Cruise and Waymo, Chinese AV company AutoX plans to begin testing in San Francisco | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | AutoX, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company that has made plays in both the U.S. and its home country, is now making a move into San Francisco, an area where its biggest competitors are creeping toward commercialization. The company, which has been testing its vehicles in the greater San Jose area since 2016, shared pl... |
UK’s CMA accepts Google’s post-cookie pledges, will ‘closely monitor’ Privacy Sandbox plan | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 11 | The U.K.’s competition authority has accepted commitments from Google over how it develops the post-cookie future of interest-based ad targeting online under its self-styled “Privacy Sandbox” proposal. In an , the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it is satisfied that the legally binding commitments secured... |
Indian social commerce DealShare bags $45 million from ADIA, eyes international expansion | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is backing the Indian social commerce startup DealShare, the two said Thursday, joining a roster of marquee investors doubling down on India’s fast-growing e-commerce market. A wholly owned subsidiary of Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund is investing $45 million in , extending the size of ... |
Fisker touts 31,000 reservations for its Ocean SUV as production draws closer | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Fisker is still on track to start production of the Ocean SUV in November, with reservations for its first electric vehicle jumping to 31,000, the company said Wednesday during its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call. The EV startup said production of prototypes have started at the Fisker Ocean assembly facility... |
Staten Island Amazon workers’ union election planned for next month | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Late next month, workers at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center will hold a long-awaited union vote, if all goes according to plan. The in-person election is tentatively set for March 25 through 30, coinciding with the culmination of a mail-in re-vote being held at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. Chris... |
Blueland raises more money to avoid shipping water around and reduce single-use plastics | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | The cleaning products you use in your house are 99% water. Yes, the same stuff that comes out of the spigot at your house. With the radical idea that the municipal water system is probably a better way to transport water around, just raised $20 million to expand its successful line of cleaning-products-in-tablet-form... |
Daily Crunch: With $250M Series D, fintech Flutterwave becomes Africa’s highest-valued startup | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 16, 2022! Most funding stories don’t go viral, but today is a bit of an exception – Flutterwave’s huge round made an impact, I can confirm. But before that and the rest of the news, am happy to announce , which should be a great session. See you there! – Today... |
How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm | David Teten | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. But how do you do that? We’ve been studying VC scout programs, not just to improve our deal sourcing, but for four broader reasons: Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ .” We have collected ... |
AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Latency is critical for a lot of workloads, yet the large cloud providers typically build their major data centers where the electricity is cheap and the local tax incentives high. In recent years, though, we’ve seen a new twist on this with projects like AWS’ Local Zones. These are small data centers adjacent to major... |
Meta crowns Nick Clegg president of tilting at regulatory headwinds | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the U.K., has been elevated to new heights at Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook — under a new title of president of global affairs in its senior management team. This is an upgrade on the VP of global affairs and communications title Clegg was recruited for ... |
Sorry, Jack, you can send ETH tips via Twitter now | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey might be a devout Bitcoin bro, but since he’s as head tweeter… why not send an ETH tip? Today, Twitter added a number of new payment options for its tip jar feature, including Ethereum addresses. Twitter also now supports international fintech providers , and , expanding... |
Senators propose the Kids Online Safety Act after five hearings with tech execs | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Last year, former Facebook employee leaked a trove of internal company documents, which illuminated just how apps like Instagram can be for teens. These bombshell revelations sparked five Senate subcommittee hearings on children’s internet safety, featuring from executives at TikTok, Snap, YouTube, Instagram and ... |
Spotify snaps up podcast measurement and analytics firms Podsights and Chartable | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Spotify this afternoon two more acquisitions in the podcasts market, this time on both the measurement and analytics side of the business. The company is acquiring the podcast measurement service and the analytics platform for undisclosed sums. Measurement and attribution are still two of the biggest, unsolved ch... |
AI acquires the power to manipulate fusion, but wait, it’s actually good news | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | A research group has taught AI to magnetically wrangle a high-powered stream of plasma used for fusion research — but wait! Put away your EMPs and screwdrivers, this is definitely a good thing, not a terrifying weapon for use against humanity in the coming robocalypse. The project is a collaboration between Google’s De... |
Dear Sophie: Should we seek a K-1 visa or marriage-based green card? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Twitter officially launches labels to identify the ‘good bots’ | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Twitter last fall a new label that would allow what it calls the “good bots” on its service to identify themselves. While the word “bot” can often have a negative connotation, Twitter noted there were useful bots, too, which were automatically tweeting out useful information like COVID-19 updates, earthquake alerts, ... |
Giving discounts will bite ya — use them with caution | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | I’ve run a startup or two in my time, and I’ve run companies that have struggled to meet payroll from time to time. More than once, running a limited-time sale with a discount saved the company — but doing the math shows how while selling at a steep discount may well improve your bank balance, it’s somewhat disastrous ... |
Google wants to bring its Privacy Sandbox to Android | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative for its Chrome browser hasn’t exactly been an unmitigated success, but it has definitely kicked off a healthy discussion about online privacy — and the company’s own role in the advertising ecosystem. Now, with many of the initiatives around Chrome still in flux, Google also plans to... |
Red Cross says ‘state-sponsored’ hackers exploited unpatched vulnerability | Carly Page | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | The recent cyberattack on the , which compromised the data of more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable” people, was likely the work of state-sponsored hackers. In , the ICRC confirmed that the initial intrusion dates back to November 9, 2021, two months before the attack was disclosed on January 18, adding that its analy... |
Green is the fashion flavor of the week with Rubi Labs’ materials made from captured CO2 | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | When you think of green, climate-aware industries, you’d be forgiven if fashion isn’t at the top of your list. wants to put a dent in that by creating new, environmentally friendlier fabrics. The company does that by capturing waste CO and creating natural textiles, bypassing agriculture and manufacturing. The compa... |
Microsoft shuts down AltspaceVR’s social hubs to combat harassment | Igor Bonifacic | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | Microsoft is to to combat harassment within the virtual reality app. As of today, the company has removed the Campfire, News and Entertainment Commons social spaces. Those were hubs where AltspaceVR users could freely gather and talk to one another. But that same freedom also meant harassment was an ongoing issue. ... |
Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 2 | 16 | As employers try to manage the loss of workers to “The Great Resignation” and engage employees working from home, co-founder and CEO Antoine Boulanger says the company is seeing its quantitative and empathetic management approach become more in demand as “the distinction between productivity and employee satisfaction... |
Payhawk becomes a unicorn as it extends its Series B | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | European spend management startup has added $100 million to its Series B round that I already covered back . The startup confirms that it has reached a post-money valuation of $1 billion, as The Information’s Kate Clark . Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the new $100 million investment. Sprints Capital, Endea... |
Singapore-based Volopay accelerates APAC and MENA expansion with $29M Series A | Kate Park | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Volopay has already seen its total payment value increase 98% monthly and its revenue jump 41% since its seed funding round, It’s promising growth like this that usually attracts new investors or solidifies support from previous investors. |
Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel on the ‘bifurcation’ coming to the world of web3 | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | One of just five general partners at the storied early-stage venture firm Benchmark, Sarah Tavel may be leaning the most into crypto, but that hardly means she’s actively writing related checks. On the contrary, Tavel has led one of the only crypto-related bets that Benchmark has made in recent years, making an in th... |
NASA extends SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contract by three missions for $900 million | Stefanie Waldek | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | NASA announced today that it has officially awarded SpaceX the Crew-7, Crew-8 and Crew-9 missions to the International Space Station, bringing SpaceX’s total Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract to $3.49 billion. The original $2.6 billion contract was issued to SpaceX in 2014 for the development ... |
Waymo to begin charging for robotaxi rides in San Francisco | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, has scored a permit with the California Public Utilities Commission that allows it to charge riders for ride-hailing trips in its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. A human safety operator must be present, though, per the permit’s stipulations. Securing this permit from the ... |
Daily Crunch: Asian and Hispanic e-grocer Weee! bags $425 million Series E | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, February 28, 2022. Today we are bringing exclamation points back. Because it’s Monday, we need the boost, and a startup whose name includes a “!” just raised north of $400 million in a single round. 2022! It’s a whole thing. – Speaking of huge venture rounds at high prices... |
This imaging sensor sees right through you with terahertz waves | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | You may not be able to see ’em with your eyes, but in the space between infrared light and microwaves is an invisible stretch of the electromagnetic spectrum where neither electronics nor optical devices can manipulate energy. The cool thing about terahertz waves, though, is that they’re a lot like X-rays: You can use ... |
Rocket Lab’s Neutron will be built, launched and landed at Wallops Island, Virginia | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Rocket Lab has the latest expansion of its growing empire of rocket building and launching facilities. While its existing pads in New Zealand and the U.S. will continue to field the company’s smaller Electron rockets, a fresh facility will be built in Virginia to house and eventually launch The new Neutron Productio... |
Test automation platform Tricentis acquires Tx3 Services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | , a enterprise-centric test automation platform, is on a bit of an acquisition spree these days. Last year, it performance testing service Neotys. Earlier this month, the company announced that it had UI-testing startup Testim and the company has now announced that it has also picked up . Unlike some other testi... |
Lucid rolls back production goals even as demand for luxury EV rises | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Earnings season rolled along today with notes from Lucid Motors’ fourth-quarter results. The company, like other electric vehicle (EV) companies, is nascent in revenue terms, albeit further along than some. The company publicly debuted as a in July last year after merging with Churchill Capital IV. The company’s valu... |
Max Q: International space collaboration under threat | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | This week, the biggest story in the space industry is understandably the biggest story in world events overall: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Of course, the most immediate and devastating impact of Russia’s actions are those felt by the people on the ground in the besieged country, but already there are signs that this... |
EU confirms ban on Kremlin-backed media is expected to cover online platforms | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | The EU’s ban on Kremlin-backed media outlets, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik (plus any subsidiaries), is expected to cover online platforms and apps as well as traditional broadcast channels, TechCrunch has confirmed. The “unprecedented” sanction was announced yesterday as the bloc dialled up its response to Russia’s in... |
China’s social media giants remove ‘inappropriate’ Ukraine content | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | China of refusing to call Russia’s military actions in Ukraine an “invasion” or condemn Moscow, but its people are taking to social media to express their feelings about the war. Over the past few days, Ukraine-related topics have become some of the top trending hashtags on Weibo, the bellwether for public discussion... |
Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover resigns from BharatPe board amid turmoil at Indian fintech | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Ashneer Grover, a founder and the public face of BharatPe, has resigned from the board and left the managing director position he held at the Tiger Global-backed Indian fintech startup following the ongoing turmoil at the firm as it undertakes what it says is an an all-encompassing review of business practices and frau... |
Instagram is shutting down its standalone IGTV app | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Instagram is ending support for its standalone app for IGTV, the company on Monday. Meta, Instagram’s parent company, confirmed to TechCrunch that the app will be removed from app stores in mid-March. In a , the company explained that the change is part of its efforts to make video as simple as possible to discover ... |
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Leverage early investors when raising a Series A, says DeepScribe’s Akilesh Bapu | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | A is a different ball game from raising a seed round, and for Akilesh Bapu, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered medical transcription platform DeepScribe, giving prospective investors a hard deadline while leaning on early investors for support and guidance made all the difference. “We were at this trajectory as a compan... |
After 2 rejected deals, Zendesk considers its next steps | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | earlier this month, it did so partially on the basis that the proposed transaction undervalued the company, especially in light of its then-pending $4.13 billion attempt to purchase . But after investors , it left open questions about how the company proceeds from here. On February 10, Zendesk declined a major off... |
Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | In the past year, there’s been a lot of — from growing cell-based meat to microbe-powered medicine manufacturing. But none of synthetic biology’s darlings can exist without one key piece of equipment: a bioreactor. While the world debates how best to bring biology-fueled manufacturing into existence, one company is a... |
Second-time founder of climate tech company Supercritical discusses learning how to balance motherhood and being a CEO | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | In this week’s episode of , we’re joined by Michelle You, co-founder and CEO of Supercritical, who is on a mission to help companies get to net-zero — but she refuses to sacrifice her personal life for the startup. Michelle talks with Darrell and Jordan about how motherhood has eased her imposter syndrome, the “scar t... |
Huawei gets into the e-reader game with a combo note-taking device | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 28 | Nearly 20 years after the release of the first e-reader, the category isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity. Amazon has ruled the roost for over a decade now, in spite of the best efforts of companies like Kobo (Rakuten) and what remains of Barnes & Noble’s hardware efforts. This week at MWC, embattled hardware maker Huaw... |
Tata Group’s super app TataNeu is not so super | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | The Indian conglomerate Tata Group plans to launch its “super app” as soon as next month, bringing together many of its established and recently acquired consumer services for the first time as the salt-to-software giant attempts to go head-to-head with rivals, including Jio Platforms and Amazon. The firm originally pl... |
NTSB investigating Joby aircraft crash | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | The National Transportation Safety Board is on Wednesday in Jolon, California. The incident involved a prototype that was being remotely piloted during flight testing at Joby’s test base in California, according to regulatory filings. During the early testing phase of aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration oft... |
When the founder becomes the story | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | A year ago, few knew the brand , a checkout technology company that was founded in 2014, nor its founder, Ryan Breslow, a seemingly archetypal Silicon Valley type: smart, strong-willed and a college dropout who left Stanford after only two years to start a company. Fast-forward to today and Bolt has suddenly become a ... |
Daily Crunch: Salesforce, AWS collaborate to offer bundled services for streaming content providers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 17, 2022! Heading into a long weekend here in the United States, you might think that the news is slowing down but, nope. It’s not. So we have major crypto-football news, European startup analysis, and even some notes on platform dynamics. It’s a busy day, so let... |
As Databricks reaches $800M ARR, a fresh look at its last private valuation | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Databricks is back in the news, disclosing a new revenue figure and its 2021 growth rate. TechCrunch has been tracking the company for years, curious about its growth and what its rising worth said about its market. Today we’re revisiting its last private round measured against its most recent financial data. But to d... |
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