Annie Njanja 2022-01-26 06:00:48 techcrunch.com Husk Power Systems, a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. The…
Anita Ramaswamy 2022-01-25 08:00:02 techcrunch.com Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. It was then that he realized their “good jobs with 401(k)s” would never be…
Rita Liao 2022-01-26 03:11:02 techcrunch.com Once an industry with long development cycles, the automotive space is being upended by China’s tech giants. One can hardly keep up with all the new electric vehicle brands that come out of the…
Aisha Malik 2022-01-26 00:01:10 techcrunch.com Infermedica, a Poland-founded digital health company that offers AI-powered solutions for symptom analysis and patient triage, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round was led by One Peak and included participation…
Anna Heim 2022-01-25 12:03:47 techcrunch.com Amid this long-lasting startup era, 2021 may go down as the peak venture capital year. When The Exchange looked at global data for venture capital activity in 2021, we used words like “bonkers” and…
Catherine Shu 2022-01-25 22:32:27 techcrunch.com A sari-sari store owner who uses GrowSari GrowSari, the Manila-based startup that helps small shops grow and digitize, announced today that KKR will lead its Series C round with a $45 million investment. The…
Ron Miller 2022-01-25 17:30:30 techcrunch.com Companies make acquisitions for a host of reasons. Sometimes it’s about filling a hole in a product road map, or expanding market share, or finding good people. Finding the right company to acquire takes…
Kate Park 2022-01-25 09:00:14 techcrunch.com Bokksu CEO Danny Taing has always been passionate about Japanese food and culture, so he moved to Tokyo after college and lived there for four years. When Taing moved back to NYC, he brought…
Ron Miller 2022-01-25 16:36:36 techcrunch.com News reports surfaced over the past 24 hours that the $40 billion Nvidia-Arm deal, which ranks among the most expensive tech deals ever, is in peril. Nvidia is reportedly ready to walk away due…
Christine Hall 2022-01-25 11:48:15 techcrunch.com Kencko, the plant-based, blender-free smoothie company, raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand into new categories. Existing investor Siddhi Capital led the round and was joined by both current and new investors,…
Christine Hall 2022-01-25 08:00:00 techcrunch.com Woflow, a data infrastructure company, raised $7.3 million in Series A funding to continue developing its automated approach to bring offline data online. The company helps customers with antiquated inventory systems power their merchant…
Kate Park 2022-01-25 09:01:07 techcrunch.com Refract, a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The latest funding…
Christine Hall 2022-01-25 09:00:26 techcrunch.com Some marketers believe that to make more money, you have to send more emails, which Matt Harris, founder and CEO of Dyspatch, refers to as the “law of email.” “All of those emails are…
Rita Liao 2022-01-25 06:28:06 techcrunch.com The enthusiasm to find paying customers for artificial intelligence continues in China. AInnovation, a Chinese computer vision and machine learning startup backed by Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation Ventures and SoftBank, is trying to automate China’s…
Frederic Lardinois 2022-01-24 11:00:41 techcrunch.com Fathom, a startup that is building an AI notetaker for Zoom, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed round from a range of early-stage investors, including Zoom’s own Apps Fund. Other…
Darrell Etherington 2022-01-24 12:37:51 techcrunch.com could start mass producing larger-capacity batteries for as soon as next year. The 4680 cell is said to boost the range of electric vehicles by over 15 percent. As notes, that could boost the…
Ram Iyer 2022-01-24 16:01:23 techcrunch.com Clara Bullrich Contributor Clara Bullrich is co-founder of TheVentureCity, and has participated in more than 50 NFT and cryptocurrency deals and is on the board of Liquid Meta, a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-01-24 11:04:37 techcrunch.com Well, here we are. The bad things are still happening: The U.S. stock market opened in the red this morning, with broad indices losing ground (the S&P 500 is off 2.3%) and the tech-heavy…
Frederic Lardinois 2022-01-24 14:14:10 techcrunch.com Codenotary, a service that makes it easier for development teams to build transparent software supply chains (and also the company behind the popular open source immudb immutable database), today announced that it has raised…
Zack Whittaker 2022-01-24 12:38:06 techcrunch.com A security researcher said he was able to remotely access dozens of Teslas around the world because security bugs found in an open-source logging tool popular with Tesla owners exposed their cars directly to…
Christine Hall 2022-01-24 11:45:57 techcrunch.com Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured…
Christine Hall 2022-01-24 08:00:26 techcrunch.com Inventa, a Brazil-based company offering a digital marketplace for small and medium-sized companies to discover and purchase new inventory, raised $20 million in Series A funding. Andreessen Horowitz and Monashees co-led the round and…
Christine Hall 2022-01-24 09:00:47 techcrunch.com Insurance broker and carrier marketplace Sayata took in $35 million in additional funds toward its Series A after raising $17 million in funds last August. Pitango Growth and Hanaco Ventures co-led the extension, with…
[email protected] (Unknown) 2022-01-23 06:52:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com WhatsApp chat could now be transferred between Android and iOS devices after the Meta-owned messaging app plans to roll out a new update. This was revealed by the found source code of WhatsApp 22.74 Beta…
Natasha Mascarenhas 2022-01-22 14:00:40 techcrunch.com Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. AngelList’s recently closed early-stage venture fund brings back one of my…
Ram Iyer 2022-01-21 18:31:21 techcrunch.com Rodrigo Vicuna Contributor Cryptocurrency and blockchain had a breakout year in 2021. ust look at the numbers: 80 million unique crypto wallets; Bitcoin and Ether grew 60% and 407%, respectively; El Salvador adopted bitcoin…
Christine Hall 2022-01-21 12:00:29 techcrunch.com Grocery delivery startup Calii is carving out a piece of Latin America’s $1 trillion groceries and food delivery market with its approach to cut inefficiencies in the food supply chain so it can bring…
Annie Njanja 2022-01-21 07:46:17 techcrunch.com Partech Shaker, the innovation division of the Paris-based VC firm Partech, has launched an accelerator program christened Chapter54 to help European startups launch in African markets. The accelerator will take in 10 technology startups…
Ron Miller 2022-01-20 08:43:51 techcrunch.com CodeSee is an aptly named startup, one that is building a set of tools to help developers understand how all the parts of a code base fit together. Today, the company announced a $7…
Darrell Etherington 2022-01-20 09:18:51 techcrunch.com Meta might be the next to hop on the NFT bandwagon. The Financial Times’ sources claim Meta is developing ways to create, display and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram. The company’s Novi wallet…
Sarah Perez 2022-01-20 10:28:48 techcrunch.com Instagram announced today it will allow users to remix any video content on the app, not just short-form reels videos. The company officially launched Remix, its version of TikTok Duets, last March. The feature…
[email protected] (Unknown) 2022-01-20 07:33:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com Microsoft logo is seen on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard logo in this illustration taken January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationHedge funds, which make profits by speculating on precarious takeovers, got a treat…
Aisha Malik 2022-01-20 11:04:06 techcrunch.com Twitter is bringing its Communities feature to Android four months after it launched on iOS and the web. The social media giant says Android users can now engage in Communities via the Twitter app…