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Roku adds a new ‘Live TV Zone’ to its homescreen | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 11 | Roku is furthering its investment in its Live TV platform with today’s introduction of a new “Live TV Zone” that will roll out to the main, left-side navigation on Roku devices. The addition is designed to promote and highlight Roku’s livestreaming options, which include its rapidly growing live TV channel guide, now o... |
Lessons from a fintech founder: Solving for C by going B2B | Jason Wenk | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | Fintech founders that set out to solve big problems for consumers almost always begin with the best intentions — they want to help people. But they often miss that mark by a country mile, which spurs questions about how effective other fintech founders can be at helping consumers. Trust me, when you name your for-profi... |
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would to , who the company brought under its wing in an exclusive . In a on Friday, Joni Mitchell announced that she would “stand with Neil Young” and remove her catalogue from the streaming platform... |
The return of the lean, green startup | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | The market is down. And Peloton of X startups As tech stocks take a hit, the big question on my mind is how a dip in market performance impacts early-stage startups. There’s the obvious argument here that startups have been preparing for a re-correction, and that market highs were knowingly unsustainable, but just b... |
Frozen giants, and why everyone is competing with everyone regardless of what they say | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | Hello my dear friends, here’s hoping that you are warm, safe, and happy today. Welcome to the weekend. Today’s Exchange note is somewhat brief, and, I hope, good fun. We’re talking gaming and competition, two of my very favorite things. While the venture capital world loses its mind over crypto-based video games bringi... |
Please make a dumb car | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | dumb where they should be smart, and smart where they should be dumb. Enough already. Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell — because what automakers are giving people is so bad, they’ll pay more to have less of it. Cars now are like budget smartphones with wheels: loaded with bloatware, unintuitive... |
This Week in Apps: iPhone payments, App Store upgrades, Snapchat’s AR shopping | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 29 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . App Annie glo... |
Tado, the German smart home energy startup, plans to go public via a SPAC at a €450M valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 16 | , the German smart home startup that specializes in thermostats and moved into flexible “time of use” energy tariffs based on loadshifting technology, is today announcing the next step in its life as a business. It’s going public by way of a SPAC deal. GFJ ESG Acquisition, a German SPAC entity focused specifically on... |
Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 1 | 16 | Misty has had a hell of a journey of it. After , then , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. Furhat is tight-lipped about the financial details of the deal, but tells ... |
7bridges raises $17M to automate logistics supply chains using AI | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 16 | Supply chain logistics — getting components and eventually finished products from A to B to C — is one of the most critical parts of running a business, not least because it is one of the most complex, involving dozens of companies, hundreds of combinations and permutations, accounting for world events outside of your ... |
Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 16 | French startup has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion. Exotec sells a complete end-to-end solution to turn a regular warehouse into a partially automated logistics ... |
Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places — buried in Slack threads, tucked into Jira tickets, pushed as files on Dropbox, etc. is a st... |
3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit | Elise King | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | , we have a fund for pre-seed and seed-stage investments, a venture studio and an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program. Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit. One of the largest challenges for pre-seed and seed stage ... |
Daily Crunch: Google will offer G Suite legacy edition users a ‘no-cost option’ | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 28, 2022! It’s nearly blizzard o’clock where I am, so please enjoy the following newsletter as my final missive before hunkering down. In happier and better news, and not only am I hype about it, I’ll hopefully be there IRL. See you soon! – And if you are looking down th... |
Smartphone shipments grew last year, for the first time since 2017 | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | Global smartphone shipments had already begun to shrink ahead of 2020, though two years of a pandemic and the resulting supply chain and chip constraints certainly didn’t help the overall figures. According to a pair of reports from and , however, the market finally experienced growth last year for first time since 2... |
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To cool down China’s overheated robotics industry, go back to the basics | He Huang | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | few years, but China’s manufacturing industry is now on the rebound. Once an industry characterized by low-end manufacturing and intensive labor, it has transformed into a high-end manufacturing hub aided by technology. Automation and robotics has the potential to modernize China’s manufacturing while improving labor ... |
Tesla is selling a microphone for in-car karaoke, but only in China | Kris Holt | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | is selling a new accessory: a microphone for in-car karaoke. The TeslaMic is only available in China for the time being. The company introduced it amid the rollout of a Chinese New Year software update, which adds a karaoke platform called Leishi KTV to infotainment systems. The microphone automatically pairs with the... |
Whistleblowers can protect crypto and DeFi | Alexis Ronickher | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | Regulation-free crypto is history. In response to rampant and the incredible of regulation-skirting decentralized finance (DeFi), U.S. regulators are set to take unprecedented action against the cryptocurrency industry. This regulatory shift tracks the United States’ historical pattern for regulating finance — oscil... |
Thinking about starting a business? Make TechCrunch Early Stage your first step | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | The idea of starting your own business can be overwhelming — often to the point of paralysis. Here’s the thing: You’re not alone. Here’s the other thing: It doesn’t have to be that way. If that drive to be your own boss won’t let you sleep at night, then is an absolute must-attend event. Whether you’re looking for sa... |
Joby Aviation wants to conduct dramatic eVTOL flights over San Francisco Bay | Mark Harris | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | permission for a series of high-profile air taxi flights over San Francisco Bay, according to documents filed with the FCC and . The tests of the startup’s second-generation pre-production prototype, called the S4, would be the first in full view of the public and among the first in an urban environment. The proposed... |
Bullish or bearish? What to expect for Europe VC activity in 2022 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa . North America was hot. Latin America was busy.... |
Why Robinhood is getting hammered today | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | this, Robinhood’s stock was off double-digit percentage points in pre-market trading, and opened under $10 per share. So, it was current as of then. Since that moment, however, Robinhood shares have flipped around and rallied. Read on for the bearish setup the market was flashing at the start of the day, but keep in m... |
Membership, mentorship or just messy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | 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, headed by our superlative production team and , and hosting crew , and . What did we get into? Well, a host of pretty awesome stuff, even if we ha... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: 2021 edtech report, UBS-Wealthfront deal, falling startup revenue | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. But when investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 billion in an all-cash deal this week, I noticed. “At those prices, the company’s exit price is a win i... |
Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for teams | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | Meet , a new startup working on a calendar app that is specifically designed for team work. Rise helps you see what you have planned, check what your team is doing right now and, more importantly, schedule meetings that are as convenient as possible for the whole team. Currently in private beta, Rise from Lachy Groo... |
Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to sign-up 200,000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ride-hailing services | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | , the Estonian mobility tech company , is planning to onboard an additional 200,000 drivers in Africa this year, as it kicks-off expansion to more cities within its existing markets while keeping up with the growing demand for e-hailing services across the continent. Bolt’s Africa regional director, Paddy Partridge, t... |
CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome. But popularity doesn’t always mean success: Predictive AI leaves out a lot of the nuance, context and cause-and-effect reasoning that... |
Canvas gives non-technical teams data exploration knowledge without needing a degree in SQL | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | While some startups are trying to get people to leave spreadsheets behind, , which is developing a collaborative data exploration tool, is going all in with a spreadsheet-like interface for non-technical teams to access the information they need without bothering data teams. Luke Zapart, who started Canvas in late 202... |
Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | When you go to events, conferences and trade shows and it works out well in terms of driving tons of leads and opportunities, it is a good experience. However, when the events don’t work out so well, that can be risky in terms of wasting time and money. Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, we... |
South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business | Kate Park | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | The startup expects to create technological synergies and increase its market share by acquiring the smart home IoT business. “By combining Zigbang’s residential contents with Samsung [SDS]’ home IoT hardware, we will revolutionize the smart home market,” CEO of Zigbang Sung-woo Ahn said in a statement. Zigbang wants t... |
Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 28 | Earlier this month, Google that it would kill free Google Workspace accounts that were using the G Suite legacy free edition. As spotted by and following , Google has updated and says that it plans to offer more options to existing users. as it exists today is a very different product from its predecessor. Goog... |
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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | , and |
Spendesk is the fifth French startup to reach unicorn status this month | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Fintech startup is announcing that it has raised an extension to its Series C round. Tiger Global is investing $114 million (€100 million) in the startup. Following today’s funding round, the company says that is has reached a valuation of more than $1.14 billion (more than €1 billion). In other words, Spendesk is a ... |
Crypto.com expands venture arm to $500 million to back early-stage web3 startups | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Crypto.com, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has extended its venture arm’s fund size to $500 million as it looks to more aggressively back early-stage startups to help the nascent ecosystem grow, following similar moves by rivals Binance, Coinbase and FTX. The broadening of Crypto.com Capital comes less than a year ... |
Focused on smaller cities, Vietnamese social commerce startup Mio raises $8M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. The funding was led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Patamar Capital and Oliver Jung. Existing investors investors GGV, Venturra, Hustle Fund, iSEED SEA and Gokul Rajaram also retur... |
India’s Arya raises $60 million to provide farmers with finance and post-harvest services | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Indian agritech startup Arya, which reaches hundreds of thousands of farmers in the South Asian market and helps them store and sell their produce and secure credit, has raised $60 million in a new financing round as it enters a new phase of growth. Asia Impact SA, Lightrock India and Quona Capital co-led the $46 milli... |
South Korean HR automation platform flex raises $32M Series B at a $287M valuation | Kate Park | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | South Korea-based human resources management platform The startup’s mission is to enable corporations to automate and streamline manual human resources work processes and focus more on people. Its automation tools optimize the employee experience to ensure seamless data flow across groups for use in payroll, e-signatu... |
New York Times ad warns against Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | A full page advertisement in Sunday’s New York Times took aim at Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software, calling it “the worst software ever sold by a Fortune 500 company” and offering $10,000, the same price as the software itself to the first person who could name “another commercial product from a Fortune 500 company ... |
Ford signs 5-year agreement with Stripe to scale e-commerce | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Ford Motor Company has signed a five-year agreement with Stripe, an online payment processor, to scale the automaker’s e-commerce capabilities. Stripe will facilitate transactions for vehicle orders and reservations, handle financing options for Ford’s commercial customers and route customer’s payments from the automak... |
Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25 million from a combined pre-seed and government funding. , which is working specifically on hyperspectral imaging (imaging that captures light across many different ... |
Rebundle raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | This morning , a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder described as six-figures worth of grant, a... |
Burnt Finance raises $8M led by Animoca Brands, launches DeFi-oriented NFT marketplace | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | is a crypto startup which, as a stunt, and but then the NFT they’d minted for it for $400,000, double what it cost on the ‘normal’ open art market. Based on the idea that auctions for NFTs could be improved, it $3 million for a decentralized auction protocol built on the Solana blockchain. That round was led by le... |
Amazon rows back on threat to stop accepting UK-issued Visa cards | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Amazon appears to have rowed back from a public threat to end support for Visa payments in the UK in a dispute over payment fees. The ecommerce giant sent an email to users of Amazon.co.uk today informing them that the “expected change” — which was due to take place on January 19 — will not now take place on that day. ... |
The Station: Cali regulators eye Tesla FSD, Turo files to go public, Local Motors shuts down | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. I’ll be taking over this week because your usual host, Kirsten Korosec, is busy doing Kirsten things. (Kirsten here to say ‘yes, I sure am, although I do have a little it... |
Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( ) and Dream ( in a funding round last year). Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on the space. , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multipla... |
INDmoney raises $75M for its super finance app in India | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Indian startup INDmoney has raised $75 million in a new round as it attempts to build a super finance app to become a “one-stop shop” for people’s investments and expenses, a top executive said on Monday. Tiger Global, Steadview Capital, and Dragoneer co-led the startup’s $75 million Series D funding, said Ashish Kashy... |
After Dutch antitrust order, Apple starts letting local dating apps use alternative payment options | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Another regulatory brick in the wall for Apple: The iPhone maker agreed this weekend to changes to its App Store in the Netherlands focused on dating apps, agreeing to allow local developers of dating apps to be able to offer non-Apple based payments (via ). In December, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Mar... |
AI chip designer Moffett AI raises ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in Series A round | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A injection. The company did not disclose the exact amount, only saying that the proceeds were in the “several tens of millions of ... |
Inflow, a science-based app for ADHD, raises $2.3M Seed led by Hoxton Ventures | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms can include anxiety, chronic boredom, impulsiveness, trouble concentrating, controlling anger, and even depression. But ADHD sufferers can face lengthy waiting periods for assessment and prohibitively expensive treatments. Now a startup, which launched in 2020, h... |
Animoca, Galaxy Interactive and Polygon back gaming firm nCore in web3 push | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | nCore Games has raised $10 million in a new financing round as the top Indian gaming firm gears up to launch web3 offerings, its top executives said Monday. Animoca Brands and Galaxy Interactive, two high-profile investors in the crypto space, led the funding. Polygon, a popular layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution, and H... |
Ghanaian fintech Float raises $17M seed to power cash flow for commerce in Africa | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 1 | 17 | Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. Many startups are solvi... |
Apple to allow third-party app payment options in South Korea | Kate Park | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Apple has submitted its compliance plans to allow developers to use third-party payment options in South Korea at a reduced service fee, the Korea Communication Commission (KCC) said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Apple’s top executive in South Korea, Brandon Yoon, who was in charge of the app store system, the iPhone maker ... |
Bolt raises $709M at an $8.4B valuation to expand its transportation and food delivery super app | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. — the startup and app of the same name that operates on-demand ride hailing, shared cars and scooters; and restaurant and grocery delivery — has raised... |
India to own 35.8% in Vodafone Idea after conversion of dues | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Vodafone Idea said on Tuesday it is giving the Indian government a 35.8% stake in the company after its board approved conversion of dues and spectrum auction installments into equity to save the third-largest telecom operator in the country from collapsing. The operator, a joint venture between the British telecoms gr... |
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Business banking startup Qonto raises $552 million at $5 billion valuation | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | French startup has raised a $552 million Series D funding round (€486 million). Following this investment, the startup has reached a valuation of $5 billion (€4.4 billion). This is one of the largest rounds in the French tech ecosystem. Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts. The startup focuses... |
Indonesia’s eFishery raises $90M from Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia Capital India | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Indonesia-based announced today that it has raised what it claims is the largest round of funding by an aquaculture tech startup in the world. The company, which provides feeding devices, software and financing for fish and shrimp farmers, got a $90 million Series C co-led by Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequo... |
European parliament found to have broken EU rules on data transfers and cookie consents | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | The European Union’s chief data protection supervisor has sanctioned the European Parliament for a series of breaches of the bloc’s data protection rules. The decision sounds a loud warning to sites and services in the region about the need for due diligence of personal data flows and transfers — including proper scrut... |
3 views on CES 2022 | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | , big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. The first CES event in June 1967 drew 17,500 attendees, where many in the crowd were absolutely dazzled by GE’s new 24-pound color television. In the intervening decades, the confe... |
The road to disastrous biometric data collection is paved with good intentions | Leif-Nissen Lundbæk | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | There has been a rather fervent acceleration in planned biometric data collection in recent months. If you’re not worried about it, you should be. In fact, silly as it sounds, try being worried about it than seems normal. After all, for-profit biometric data collection has undergone an astounding degree of normalizat... |
Jakarta-based SME financial platform KoinWorks scoops up $108M Series C | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | The backbone of Indonesia’s economy are its . But many lack access to working capital and, especially before the pandemic, managed their finances using manual processes like spreadsheets. With COVID-19 prompting many to digitize, startups that focus on SMEs have been raising large rounds of funding to scale up quickly... |
Rivian files trademark for electric bikes | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Electric vehicle maker Rivian filed a for bicycles and electric bikes, as well as their corresponding structural parts. The move might signal that Rivian is considering getting on the e-bike demand train and diversifying its portfolio with a product that is cheaper to produce at scale than electric pickup trucks and ... |
Dallas wants to be the site of Ford and Argo AI’s next autonomous vehicle facility | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Dallas council members will vote Wednesday on whether to approve an economic development agreement with Ford in the hopes of being home to the automaker’s next autonomous vehicle facility, reported . Ford, an investor and customer of AV technology company Argo AI, is working with Argo to commercialize the self-driving... |
Rivian produced a skosh more than 1,000 electric vehicles in 2021 | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | U.S. electric automaker Rivian reported Monday it produced 1,015 vehicles in 2021 — a figure that is in line with expectations that the company lowered last month. Rivian delivered 920 vehicles by the end of 2021, according to a release issued Monday. The production and delivery numbers combined with a WSJ report that ... |
Moxie Marlinspike is leaving Signal | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the popular encrypted communications app Signal, announced today in a that he is stepping down in a move that he says has been in the works for several months. While unexpected, the move seems tied in some way to the rise of , a cryptocurrency startup that counts Marlinspike as its ... |
Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Turo files IPO to go public | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Peer-to-peer car-sharing startup Turo has released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States, . The S-1 document filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not include terms for its offering. Turo, which was founded in 2010 and has been compared to Airbnb for cars, all... |
Daily Crunch: Take-Two Interactive will buy FarmVille creator Zynga for $12.7B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 10, 2022! For those of you sad that it’s winter, or , take heart. We have lots of neat news for you today, including the evolution of lab-grown meat, a mega-acquisition in the gaming space, and even some good news for startups hoping to land an accelerator spot! Don’t frow... |
Max Q: SpaceX kicks off 2022 in rocket launches | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Welcome to Max Q, the TechCrunch newsletter that’s all about things blasting off. Or floating. Or I guess also crashing. Whatever happens in and on the way to space. We’re now into 2022 and already people are launching rockets. Before the first week of the year was even out, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with ... |
Payments infra startup M2P Fintech valued at over $600 million in $56 million funding | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | M2P Fintech, a payments infrastructure startup that has established market dominance in India, has raised $56 million in a new financing round, less than three months after closing its previous funding, as it works to deepen its footprints in several international geographies. Insight Partners, the New York-based priva... |
Be aware: Your company is watching you | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Call it the public service announcement to start off your year: If you’re working at a startup where IT is a little fuzzy, policies are evolving as the company is being built and the organization is evolving quickly, you’re at higher risk than usual that your employers are willing to move fast, do things and ask for pe... |
The biggest news from CES 2022 | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Be it virtual, in-person or some mix of the two, CES is a beast. How could you keep up with all of the news flooding out of the show? You can’t, really. The big outlets each put a small army on CES coverage and only really scratch the surface. With that in mind, and with CES 2022 now wrapped, we figured it was worthwhi... |
French robotic exoskeleton maker Wandercraft eyes US expansion courtesy of a $45M Series C | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Wandercraft was founded in 2012, with the vision of improving mobility of wheelchair users. The company’s solution comes by way of exoskeletons, which can offer wearers the ability to walk with robotic assistance. In 2019, the Parisian firm launched Atalante, a self-balancing exoskeleton with 12 degrees of freedom that... |
Apple paid out around $60 billion to App Store developers in 2021 | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | Despite facing numerous antitrust lawsuits and tighter regulations in certain markets, Apple today new figures indicating record App Store growth in 2021. The company in a press release said it has to app developers since the App Store first launched in 2008, a number that’s up from the at the end of 2020 — meani... |
Don’t trust averages: How to assess and strengthen the health of your business | Karen Peacock | 2,022 | 1 | 10 | of your business starts with customer focus: Are you providing breakthrough value to your customers? Is it value that’s so far above and beyond other solutions that it’s worth a prospective customer’s time and effort to switch to you? Is it value that’s so clearly and increasingly a step ahead that they won’t consider... |
Insurtech startup Luko acquires Coya and gains insurance license | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | French startup is acquiring German startup in order to grow its European presence and get an insurance license from German regulators. While Luko isn’t disclosing terms of the deal, the company says it’s a 100% share deal, which means that Coya investors are now Luko investors. Those investors include Valar Venture... |
SaaS Labs raises $42 million for its business automation platform, acquires CallPage and Atolia | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | SaaS Labs has raised $42 million in a new financing round, less than three months after closing its previous funding, and acquired two startups as it looks to aggressively grow its automation platform that serves sales and support teams at small and medium-sized businesses. Sequoia Capital India led SaaS Labs’ Series B... |
Singapore-based StaffAny gets $3.4M led by GGV to simplify shift management | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | A SaladStop worker uses StaffAny to clock in. StaffAny , a management platform for SMEs with shift workers, has raised a $3.4 million Series A led by GGV Capital. The round included participation from East Ventures, FreakOut Shinsei Fund, Far East Ventures, Farquhar Venture Capital and angel investors, including Alle... |
YC alum Dropee, a Malaysia B2B wholesale platform, lands $7M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Another startup focused on SMEs in Southeast Asia has announced a funding round. , a Malaysia-based B2B wholesale platform that also offers financial services, like working capital loans, to SMEs, said today it has closed a Series A round totaling $7 million. The raised $3 million in equity and $4 million in debt, l... |
Google Play Games for PC, which brings Android games to Windows, enters beta testing | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Google today will begin rolling out a limited beta test of its newly Google Play Games for PC product in three overseas markets: Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. The Google Play Games PC application, which was announced last month during , allows people to play Google Play games on Windows PCs, in addition to curr... |
Accessible hiring practices to solve for The Great Resignation | Meagan Taylor | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Employees across industries are quitting their jobs. One recent study reported that people quit their job this year. Whether we want to chalk it up to career moves that were delayed due to the uncertain pandemic economy, a reevaluation of work environments, or a revolt against unsatisfactory employers, one thing is c... |
Daily Crunch: Electric rail vehicle startup Parallel Systems raises a $49.55M Series A | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 19, 2022! What a news roundup we have for you today: China’s changing venture landscape, the power of passwords, no-code startups, and why women are still raising paltry sums compared to men. Please enjoy! – The biggest piece of startup news today is that . The new fundin... |
Crypto.com CEO admits hundreds of customer accounts were hacked | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | null |
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Apple Podcasts introduces new ‘Listen With’ collections to help users discover shows | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Apple Podcasts is rolling out a new “Listen With” editorial franchise to give users a new way to discover podcasts. The company says Listen With helps users discover new shows by sharing those that popular artists, authors, filmmakers, journalists, influencers and other podcasters are listening to. Each collection incl... |
How Mayht, a small startup, is taking on the world of speaker goliaths | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. You’d have to be a special flavor of bold to take on internet search for example — where the name of the leading comp... |
Dovetail raises $63M to grow its researcher-focused software business | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Australian user research software company announced today that it has closed a $63 million Series A led by . The company has now raised just over $70 million in total, and it added its new capital at a valuation that it describes as “north” of $700 million. As you can tell by the numbers, this is no ordinary Series ... |
Dear Sophie: How do I successfully expand my company to the US? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | 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... |
Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | If blockchains are immutable records of our digital history, what kinds of history do we want to inscribe on them? Predictably, most records thus far have been transaction data, but as entrepreneurs expand their ambitions for NFTs, startups are aiming to tie those asset transactions to real world events and interaction... |
Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | gaming constitutes a small fraction of its overall business, Microsoft’s announcement yesterday of its to buy Activision Blizzard proves that the technology corporation takes the sector plenty seriously. It is easy to think that Microsoft should have invested the money into other, perhaps more lucrative businesses i... |
Disney’s streaming biz reorg includes an international content hub, plans to double Disney+ footprint | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Disney announced today it plans on expanding its direct-to-consumer streaming business to more global markets and is creating a new International Content and Operations group to aid in this push. The group will be headed by nearly 25-year Disney veteran , who will focus on local and regional content production for Dis... |
As its data flows woes grow, Google lobbies for quickie fix to EU-US transfers | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | As the legal uncertainty in Europe clouding use of US cloud services cranks up, Google has responded by firing up its lobbying engines to call for US and European lawmakers to get a move on and come up a new rubberstamp to grease transatlantic data flows as usual as the bloc’s regulators finally start to find their ban... |
Tom Brady’s buzzy celebrity NFT startup Autograph banks $170M from Silicon Valley’s top crypto investors | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | , an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold of crypto collectibles. The startup tells TechCrunch it has closed a $170 million Series... |
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 1 | 19 | Instagram is giving creators more ways to make money with today’s launch of Instagram Subscriptions. The feature, which was back in November, is now officially in early testing with a small group of U.S. creators who will be able to offer their followers paid access to exclusive Instagram Live videos and Stories. Sub... |
Stonly, a customer onboarding platform, raises $22M series A led by Northzone and Accel | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 1 | 26 | In the age of COVID — or rather, the age of massive digitization of services, post-COVID — online customers want to onboard themselves to products and platforms. After all, isn’t it faster? And isn’t it cheaper for the platforms themselves? Playing in this space are companies like ScreenSteps, Scribe, Poka, Dozuki and ... |
Singapore-based edtech Cialfo gets $40M led by Square Peg and SEEK | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 1 | 26 | Applying to colleges is one of the hardest parts of high school, especially for students who want to study abroad. wants to make the process easier, with a platform that includes school research, communication tools for counselors and students, and Direct Apply, which helps international students find and apply to hu... |
Cowboy raises $80M to take its e-bike business up a gear | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 1 | 26 | The pandemic spurred a in electric bikes and other alternative urban transportation modes as city dwellers looked for less-crowded ways to get around their streets quickly and easily without resorting to cars. Now, one of the companies that benefitted from that trend is announcing a big round of funding to expand its... |
Tiger Global and Sequoia India-backed FanCraze launches cricket NFTs in partnership with ICC | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 1 | 26 | NFTs took off in many corners of the world last year, but the trading of the fast-growing blockchain-powered and verifiable digital assets is yet to make inroads in India. Now a local startup — backed by high-profile investors Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, Coatue Management and Dapper Labs — believes it’s cracke... |
Daily Crunch: No-code SaaS platform CaptivateIQ spears $1.25B valuation with $100M Series C | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 1 | 26 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 26, 2022! Today we have surveillance robots, a Harry Potter reference, layoffs and startup news galore. Heck, we even have some Reddit news in the mix. It’s a good day to be a tech fan, worker and general consumer. Enjoy! – Today’s startup news is a really neat mix of thin... |
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