Jonathan Shieber 2021-04-22 11:54:24 feedproxy.google.com The burgeoning climate-focused portfolio from early-stage investor SOSV Investments has managed to raise nearly $2 billion in follow-on financing since the startup companies graduated from the investment firm’s various accelerator programs. Taken together those…
Catherine Shu 2021-04-22 12:00:55 feedproxy.google.com AfterShip launched in 2012 to help online sellers track packages across different carriers, but since then it has built a suite of data analytics tools covering almost every step of the shopping experience, from…
Rebecca Bellan 2021-04-22 18:39:27 feedproxy.google.com Move over Citi Bike, there’s a new docked, shared bike service in town — only this one is all electric. Next week, JOCO will be the first shared operator in New York City to…
Devin Coldewey 2021-04-22 16:46:12 feedproxy.google.com While the concept of “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in other ways as well. For instance, researchers…
Frederic Lardinois 2021-04-22 13:00:42 feedproxy.google.com Google Fi, Google’s cell network, is turning six today and to celebrate, the team is launching a new pricing plan, dubbed “Simply Unlimited” starting at $60 per month for a single line (down to…
Jonathan Shieber 2021-04-22 13:41:00 feedproxy.google.com When Xuezhao Lan first formed Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to leverage technology to give venture capital investing super powers. From the earliest days, when Lan hired former TechCrunch reporter John Mannes, and…
Anna Heim 2021-04-22 11:09:44 feedproxy.google.com The global venture capital market had a cracking start to the year. Coming off a 2020 high, VC totals in the United States, in Europe, and among competitive verticals like insurtech and AI are on…
Matthew Panzarino 2021-04-22 09:09:51 feedproxy.google.com I’ve been playing around with Apple’s new AirTag location devices for a few hours now and they seem to work pretty much as advertised. The setup flow is simple and clean, taking clear inspiration…
Ron Miller 2021-04-22 07:00:51 feedproxy.google.com When we last heard from BigID at the end of 2020, the company was announcing a $70 million Series D at a $1 billion valuation. Today, it announced a $30 million extension on that…
Manish Singh 2021-04-22 05:32:22 feedproxy.google.com Coinswitch Kuber, a startup that allows young users in India to invest in cryptocurrencies, said on Thursday it has raised $25 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its reach…
Frederic Lardinois 2021-04-21 12:00:20 feedproxy.google.com Google today announced a major update to Meet, its video-meeting service, which brings several user interface tweaks for desktop users, as well as quite a bit of new functionality, including multipinning so that you…
Rebecca Bellan 2021-04-21 15:19:12 feedproxy.google.com The days of the shared, dockless micromobility model are numbered. That’s essentially the conclusion reached by Puneeth Meruva, an associate at Trucks Venture Capital who recently authored a detailed research brief on micromobility. Meruva…
Brian Heater 2021-04-21 16:37:41 feedproxy.google.com We’ve covered Swiss robotics company ANYbotics with some regularity over the years. The company has offered its own take on the quadrupedal robotics space that has, naturally, drawn comparisons to Boston Dynamics’ Spot. Of…
Devin Coldewey 2021-04-21 13:59:38 feedproxy.google.com We all know these constant video calls are doing something to our brains. How else could we get tired and frazzled from sitting around in our own home all day? Well, now Microsoft has…
Jordan Crook 2021-04-21 12:30:25 feedproxy.google.com Figma spent years in stealth before launching its web-based collaborative design tool. Since coming into the light, the company has been iterating quickly. Today, Figma launches its biggest product update to date. Meet FigJam,…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-04-21 10:36:26 feedproxy.google.com Robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath last night priced its IPO at $56 per share, above its raised price target range of $52 to $54. The company sold 9,416,384 shares at that price, alongside…
Ron Miller 2021-04-21 09:05:21 feedproxy.google.com Authzed, an early stage startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build permissions in their applications, announced a $3.9 million seed round today. The investment was led by Work-Bench with participation…
Catherine Shu 2021-04-21 06:00:34 feedproxy.google.com Electric scooters powered by Gogoro’s swappable, rechargeable batteries now account for nearly a quarter of monthly sales in Taiwan, its home market. But one of the most frequent questions co-founder and chief executive officer…
Tage Kene-Okafor 2021-04-21 03:57:24 feedproxy.google.com The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access…
Ingrid Lunden 2021-04-21 03:22:21 feedproxy.google.com Facebook and its family of apps have long grappled with the issue of how to better manage — and eradicate — bullying and other harassment on its platform, turning both to algorithms and humans…
Anthony Ha 2021-04-20 13:45:43 feedproxy.google.com Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K today, which will come with a new Siri Remote. In addition to the existing Siri support, this new aluminum remote features a redesigned clickpad that allows for…
Romain Dillet 2021-04-20 13:47:30 feedproxy.google.com Apple has unveiled a new, colorful iMac today with an Apple-designed M1 chip. But that was just part of the story as the company used that opportunity to release new Mac accessories. In addition…
Anthony Ha 2021-04-20 21:00:57 feedproxy.google.com Apple announces new devices, Amazon opens a hair salon and Venmo adds cryptocurrency support. This is your Daily Crunch for April 20, 2021. The big story: Apple announces a new iPad Pro and much…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-04-20 19:45:10 feedproxy.google.com Today’s Apple event, chock-full of the company’s products that will help decide whether the company meets, exceeds or undershoots Wall Street expectations for its future growth and performance, had little to no impact on…
Greg Kumparak 2021-04-20 14:30:06 feedproxy.google.com It’s Apple event day! From tweaks to the Apple Card to all new iMacs and iPads, Apple crammed this one-hour event with news. Don’t have time to sit down and click through every last…
Sarah Perez 2021-04-20 14:51:46 feedproxy.google.com Now that Apple’s lost item finder AirTag has officially been introduced, competitor Tile is going on record ahead of its testimony in front of Congress tomorrow about how it perceives Apple’s latest product. The…
Brian Heater 2021-04-20 13:48:02 feedproxy.google.com The big news from today’s Spring Loaded event is, as anticipated, a new version of Apple’s high-end tablet. The new iPad Pro is the first in the line to adopt the M1 chip introduced…
Ron Miller 2021-04-20 11:38:06 feedproxy.google.com For IBM, much of the last 8 years simply posting positive revenue growth was a challenge. In fact, the company had a period between 2013 and 2018 when it experienced an astonishing 22 straight…
Sarah Perez 2021-04-20 09:37:04 feedproxy.google.com Amazon announced this morning it’s opening Amazon Salon, the retailer’s first hair salon and a place where Amazon aims to test new technologies with the general public. The salon will occupy over 1,500 sq.…
Frederic Lardinois 2021-04-20 08:00:20 feedproxy.google.com Pulumi was one of the first of what is now a growing number of infrastructure-as-code startups and today, at its developer conference, the company is launching version 3.0 of its cloud engineering platform. With…
Catherine Shu 2021-04-20 01:17:21 feedproxy.google.com Qapita’s co-founders. Fom left to right: Vamsee Mohan, Ravi Ravulaparthi and Lakshman Gupta Qapita, a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in…
Rita Liao 2021-04-20 01:00:30 feedproxy.google.com One after another, Chinese tech giants have announced their plans for the auto space over the last few months. Some internet companies, like search engine provider Baidu, decided to recruit help from a traditional…
Alexandra Ames 2021-04-19 12:16:06 feedproxy.google.com Regret — such an unfortunate and unnecessary emotion, is it not? If you missed out on our April TC Early Stage bootcamp, this is your chance to cast regret aside and secure your spot…