Report: Indian gig marketplace Urban Company raises $190m in new round
The Indian gig marketplace becomes the latest startup in the country to reach unicorn status this year. Source link
Grab, GoTo, Sea could ‘gobble up’ start-ups in Southeast Asia: VC
SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia's tech giants could buy up start-ups using funds they gain when they go public, according to a managing partner of an early-stage venture capital firm."They're basically going to gobble up a number of start-ups," Vinnie Lauria of...
Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin – Startups
The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the idea that podcasting is experiencing a new wave of popularity and scaffolding. Are you sure? Apple is bent on turning the space into...
8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm – Startups
Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of...
Ola Electric to invest $2b to set up 100,000 EV charging points in India
For the first year of the plan, the startup said it's setting up over 5,000 charging points across 100 cities for its two-wheelers. Source link
Satellite Vu’s $5M seed round will fuel the launch of its thermal imaging satellites – Startups
Earth imaging is an increasingly crowded space, but Satellite Vu is taking a different approach by focusing on infrared and heat emissions, which are crucial for industry and climate change monitoring. Fresh from TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, the company...
Regent raises $9 million for flying ferries with 180 mph top speed
Billy Thalheimer (CEO) and Michael Klinker (CTO) of REGENTREGENTA Boston start-up called Regent wants to make flying ferries the best way to travel between coastal cities.The start-up is developing an "electric seaglider" that can motor out of a harbor on a...
Ex-Gojek execs’ edtech startup nets seed money from women-focused VC firm, others
Binar Academy plans to use the fresh funds to develop its technology education offerings and to hire content creation experts. Source link
UK’s Zilch raises $80M at a $500M+ valuation for its direct-to-consumer buy now, pay later service – Startups
The buy now, pay later model, popularized by companies like Klarn and Affirm has been one of the big e-commerce winners in the last year, giving consumers who might be stretched financially another option to pay for things when they buy them online. While that...
News of a merger, an acquisition, and an exit walked into a bar…
Memic Innovative Surgery, Abogen Biosciences, iBus Networks, and more startups also raised funds this week. Source link
Kry closes $312M Series D after use of its telehealth tools grows 100% yoy – Venture Capital
Swedish digital health startup Kry, which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Western Europe, netting a €140M Series C in January 2020. Today...
AI startup Faculty wins contract to predict future requirements for the UK’s NHS – Venture Capital
Faculty, a VC-backed artificial intelligence start-up, has won a tender to work with the NHS to make better predictions about its future requirements for patients, based on data drawn from how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2019, Faculty raised a...
Building a creator-focused OS – Venture Capital
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. A week ago TechCrunch covered Pico’s $6.5 million funding round...
Bobby Goodlatte has designs on how to succeed in venture (and so far, so good) – Venture Capital
Bobby Goodlatte has only been an investor for about a decade, but he appears to have already made tens of millions of dollars, contrary to the expectations of some traditional VCs who have privately, and publicly, griped that too many novice investors have...
First impressions of Apple’s AirTags – Venture Capital
We test out Apple’s lost item finder, Google Fi gets a new unlimited plan and Facebook tests new video ad targeting features. This is your Daily Crunch for April 22, 2021. The big story: First impressions of Apple’s AirTags AirTags are Apple’s new Tile...
Dutch startup Go Sharing raises $60M to expand beyond e-mopeds and into new markets – Venture Capital
On-demand access to electric mopeds — the small, motorised scooters that you sit on, not kick — has been a small but persistent part of the multi-modal transportation mix on offer to people in cities these days. Today, a startup out of The Netherlands is...
Apple announces a new iPad Pro and much more – Venture Capital
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 more Apple revealed a bunch of new products at its press event...
Cusp Capital launches with a $361M fund for early stage startups in Germany and Europe – Venture Capital
In the past ten years, an investment team led by Christian Winter, Jan Sessenhausen, Helmut Klawitter and Wilken Engelbracht worked principally with German family offices, investing in startups such as Klarna, Zalando and Delivery Hero that went on to be worth...
Clubhouse buzz is already fading but Andreessen Horowitz isn’t put off
Clubhouse Drop-in audio chat app logo on the App Store is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on February 21, 2021.Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesAudio app Clubhouse was all the rage earlier this year, but there...
Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds – Venture Capital
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