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TechCrunch
11/10/2022 2:00:15 AM
VC investors and startup founders see hope in the red wave that wasn't
Janna Meyrowitz Turner’s biggest concern going into the U.S. midterm elections was that more than half of American voters had an election denier on their ballot.
She was quite nervous, alongside pund.. read more
TechCrunch
11/9/2022 2:00:17 PM
Sweden’s EQT Ventures closes a its third fund at €1.1B to double down on European and early-stage startups
Startups might be in a funding midwinter, but the ray of sun shining on some VCs speaks of a different trend. EQT Ventures, the venture fund arm of Sweden’s investment giant EQT making early-stage bet.. read more
TechCrunch
11/9/2022 7:05:53 AM
Daily Crunch: Binance says it will buy FTX after smaller rival stumbles through ‘liquidity crunch’
Daily Crunch: Binance says it will buy FTX after smaller rival stumbles through ‘liquidity crunch’
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TechCrunch
11/8/2022 11:45:56 PM
Peloton co-founder John Foley is a rug guy now
John Foley clearly didn’t take (ahem) a brake after leaving Peloton.
The former co-founder and CEO of the connected fitness company — who stepped down as CEO in February and left the company altogeth.. read more
TechCrunch
11/8/2022 9:01:24 PM
Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M
Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led .. read more
TechCrunch
11/8/2022 7:31:04 PM
Quona Capital sinking $332M into startups focused on financial inclusion
Though finance technology startups are having a moment when it comes to decreased venture capital deals and layoffs, Quona Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets that acceler.. read more
TechCrunch
11/8/2022 3:00:09 PM
Former Tink employees launch Atlar, a payment automation startup
Stockholm-based startup Atlar raised a $5 million (€5 million) seed round led by Index Ventures. The company has been working on an application programming interface (API) that facilitates bank-to-ban.. read more
TechCrunch
11/8/2022 7:06:19 AM
Daily Crunch: Say ‘fromage’! French startup PhotoRoom captures $19M Series A
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TechCrunch
11/8/2022 1:49:13 AM
These folks are working to bring more diversity to the venture LP investing pool
These folks are working to bring more diversity to the venture LP investing pool That could help startups build more diverse cap tables
When you think about diversity in the startup ecosystem, one ar.. read more
TechCrunch
11/8/2022 1:32:05 AM
Carbon Re spins out of academia-land to take on cement pollution
Spinning out of top U.K. universities Cambridge University and UCL, Carbon Re just raised £4.2 million ($4.8 million) in a bid to tackle the gigatonnes of carbon emissions spewing forth from the tradi.. read more
TechCrunch
11/7/2022 8:08:56 PM
Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by Mary Meeker’s BOND
Yassir, an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it rais.. read more
TechCrunch
11/7/2022 3:00:50 AM
How ButcherBox bootstrapped to $600M in revenue
Some of the best companies only come about because they found a problem worth solving.
For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox, the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken s.. read more
TechCrunch
11/6/2022 11:17:12 PM
The fintech layoffs just keep on coming
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TechCrunch
11/6/2022 1:01:33 AM
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TechCrunch
11/5/2022 5:06:56 AM
Daily Crunch: Twitter layoffs violated federal worker protections, class action lawsuit alleges
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Friday, and all eyes are on the vast number of Twitter employees w.. read more
TechCrunch
11/5/2022 2:50:22 AM
Benitago Group exec confirms it didn’t close, but did lay off some employees
Benitago Group’s website no longer working this week set off an alarm bell for some folks, those who regularly follow the comings-and-goings of active fulfillment-by-Amazon aggregators. They believed .. read more
TechCrunch
11/5/2022 1:01:29 AM
VCs decipher the recent fintech layoffs — and why they're happening now
Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. And yet Stripe’s announcement it would lay off 14% of its workforce still made a splash, proving that unicorns and decacorns are not.. read more
TechCrunch
11/4/2022 10:00:23 PM
AfroTech Conference heads to Austin for first in-person event since 2019
The AfroTech Conference, one of the nation’s most prominent Black tech gatherings, will touch down in Austin on November 13 for its first in-person event since 2019.
The event is put on annually by t.. read more
TechCrunch
11/4/2022 9:01:05 PM
Most of the unicorns aren’t
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
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TechCrunch
11/3/2022 9:20:40 PM
More than 70 VC firms join VCs for Repro coalition to support reproductive rights
Seventy-five venture capital firms, including Bloomberg Beta, 776, and M13, are standing together to launch VCs for Repro, a coalition stating that criminalizing abortion is a violation of human right.. read more
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Australian Financial Review
5/15/2023 9:01:09 AM
How a frenzied bidding war broke out for a broke HR software firm
Investors loved the story and sent the 30¢ shares to 44¢ within days. But the enthusiasm didnt last, and the stock began a two-year slide to its nadir of 4¢.
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During this share pric….. read more
Market Watch
6/3/2023 2:41:42 AM
: MongoDB stock streaks toward best day ever after big beat, forecast
MongoDB Inc. MDB shares were on track for their best day ever on Friday after the database company posted a big beat-and-raise quarter. MongoDB shares soared as much as 35% to an intraday high of $397.. read more
Fox News
6/2/2023 11:41:41 PM
Woman walking along California beach finds ancient, foot-long mastodon tooth
A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.
But then the fossil vanished, and it took a med….. read more