Mike Butcher 2021-05-08 10:07:16 feedproxy.google.com E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through.The C4 is basically an upgrade…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-05-07 14:17:36 feedproxy.google.com Shares of Square are up more than 6% today after the American fintech company reported a staggering $5.06 billion in revenue in its Q1 2021 earnings report, far ahead of an expected tally of…
Annie Siebert 2021-05-07 09:15:15 feedproxy.google.com Twitch evidently has no issues getting people to spend time on its platform — even politicians can draw huge crowds by streaming themselves playing games. But monetizing video content is hard, and Twitch has…
Alexandra Ames 2021-05-07 12:05:16 feedproxy.google.com “I feel the need — the need for speed.” That could be the official mobility startup founder credo, amirite? Speed and agility are important, but don’t move so quickly that you miss the chance…
Natasha Mascarenhas 2021-05-07 09:57:36 feedproxy.google.com Income-share agreements, or ISAs, are a way to bring flexibility to the often steep financial costs of higher education. The financial model allows a student to learn at zero upfront cost, and then pay…
Catherine Shu 2021-05-07 03:00:16 feedproxy.google.com GajiGesa, a fintech startup that provides earned wage access (EWA) and other services for workers in Indonesia, has added strategic investors to help it launch new services and expand its user base. Its new…
Rita Liao 2021-05-06 21:11:29 feedproxy.google.com SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-05-06 19:10:51 feedproxy.google.com As expected, Bill.com is buying Divvy, the Utah-based corporate spend management startup that competes with Brex, Ramp and Airbase. The total purchase price of around $2.5 billion is substantially above the company’s roughly $1.6 billion…
Manish Singh 2021-05-06 18:20:29 feedproxy.google.com It’s safe to say WhatsApp didn’t have the ideal start to 2021. Less than a week into the new year, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app had already annoyed hundreds of thousands of users with…
Brian Heater 2021-05-06 16:38:08 feedproxy.google.com Twitter today confirmed earlier reports that it’s testing a new Tip Jar feature. The new addition utilizes a number of different payment platforms, including PayPal, Venmo, Patreon, Cash App and Bandcamp (all region-dependent). “Tip…
Devin Coldewey 2021-05-06 08:01:34 feedproxy.google.com Autonomous vehicles rely on many sensors to perceive the world around them, and while cameras and lidar get a lot of the attention, good old radar is an important piece of the puzzle —…
Anthony Ha 2021-05-06 12:00:42 feedproxy.google.com If you ask Nik Bonaddio why he wanted to build a new mobile trivia app, his answer is simple. “In my life, I’ve got very few true passions: I love trivia and I love…
Sarah Perez 2021-05-06 10:57:08 feedproxy.google.com Snap on Wednesday announced its plan to soon launch a Creator Marketplace, which will make it easier for businesses to find and partner with Snapchat creators, including lens creators, AR creators and later, prominent…
Devin Coldewey 2021-05-06 08:01:34 techcrunch.com Autonomous vehicles rely on many sensors to perceive the world around them, and while cameras and lidar get a lot of the attention, good old radar is an important piece of the puzzle —…
Mary Ann Azevedo 2021-05-06 09:00:13 feedproxy.google.com The topic of compensation has historically been a delicate one that has left many people — especially startup employees — wondering just what drives what can feel like random decisions around pay and…
Tage Kene-Okafor 2021-05-06 06:06:32 feedproxy.google.com Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India,…
Manish Singh 2021-05-06 02:23:44 feedproxy.google.com Krafton, the South Korean developer of PUBG Mobile, said on Thursday that it is bringing back the popular gaming title to India under the brand name ‘Battlegrounds Mobile India.’ The new title, which uses…
Kirsten Korosec 2021-05-06 03:01:46 feedproxy.google.com Einride, the Swedish startup known for its unusual-looking electric and autonomous pods that are designed to carry freight, has raised $110 million to help fund its expansion in Europe and into the United States.…
Rita Liao 2021-05-06 00:51:05 feedproxy.google.com Despite a persistent semiconductor shortage that is disrupting the global automotive industry, investors remain bullish on the chips used to power next-generation vehicles. Kneron, a startup that develops semiconductors to give devices artificial intelligence…
Sarah Perez 2021-05-05 13:30:24 feedproxy.google.com A year ago, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to pause and reconsider before they replied to a tweet using “harmful” language — meaning language that was abusive, trolling or otherwise…
Catherine Shu 2021-05-05 21:00:55 feedproxy.google.com From left to right: Rainforest business operations and strategy director Elita Subaja; co-founder and CEO J.J. Chai and brand manager Jerry Ng Singapore-based Rainforest is one of the newest entrants in the wave of…
Catherine Shu 2021-05-05 19:13:49 feedproxy.google.com Una Brands’ co-founders (from left to right): Tobias Heusch, Kiren Tanna and Kushal Patel. Image Credits: Una Brands One of the biggest funding trends of the past year is companies that consolidate small e-commerce…
Neesha A. Tambe 2021-05-05 16:46:08 feedproxy.google.com Early-stage startups — now is your time to shine at the TechCrunch Early Stage event on July 8 and 9. This is part two of the highly successful event from April where top experts…
Ram Iyer 2021-05-05 15:48:57 feedproxy.google.com Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of QC Ware, a quantum computing software company. Matt was a managing director in private equity at Apollo Management and prior to that was a managing director in…
Annie Siebert 2021-05-05 14:40:49 feedproxy.google.com While mergers and acquisitions may be the right strategic path for many businesses, organizations tend to underestimate the role in-house legal teams play in a large-scale strategic transaction until the company is firmly entrenched…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-05-05 12:55:06 feedproxy.google.com Text Blaze, which was a part of the recent Winter 2021 Y Combinator accelerator batch, announced that it has closed a $3.3 million seed round. The company’s investment was led by Two Sigma Ventures’s…
Tage Kene-Okafor 2021-05-05 02:00:16 feedproxy.google.com Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent. If the South African market is excluded, this number drops to a…
Kirsten Korosec 2021-05-05 05:00:59 feedproxy.google.com Lucid Motors is beefing up its executive and technical leadership team, hiring people from Waymo, Intel and Xperi as it prepares to become a publicly listed company. The automaker said Wednesday that Sherry House,…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-05-04 18:08:40 feedproxy.google.com Earlier today recent dog-parent Alex Konrad and fellow Forbes staffer Eliza Haverstock broke the news that Divvy, a Utah-based corporate spend unicorn, is considering selling itself to Bill.com for a price that could top…
Ron Miller 2021-05-04 11:04:00 feedproxy.google.com We tend to think of venture capital in tens or hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars, so it’s refreshing to find Evening Fund, a new $2 million micro fund that focuses on small…
Kirsten Korosec 2021-05-04 14:09:18 feedproxy.google.com Four years ago, Argo AI made its first acquisition as a young, newly backed self-driving vehicle startup. Now, Argo says its acquisition of lidar company Princeton Lightwave is paying off and is poised to…
Anna Heim 2021-05-04 11:34:17 feedproxy.google.com Public offerings weren’t supposed to pick up until Q3, but who wants to wait? Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 8 hours The public markets give, and the public markets take away. Earlier this morning, enterprise…
Sarah Perez 2021-05-04 09:23:01 feedproxy.google.com Twitter this morning announced it’s acquiring Scroll, a subscription service that offers readers a better way to read through long-form content on the web, by removing ads and other website clutter that can slow…