Facebook revamps its business tool lineup following threats to its ad targeting business
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Facebook today is announcing the launch of new products and features for business owners, following the threat to its ad targeting business driven by Apple’s new privacy features, which now allow mobile users to opt out of being tracked across their iO
Whatnot raises another $150M for its livestream shopping platform, evolves into a unicorn
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Whatnot, a live streaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops, has closed a $150M Series C — its third round of fundraising in 2021 alone. This round pins Whatnot’s valuation at $1.5B, earninConfluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat
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As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbeTiger’s bullish robotic investments
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On Tuesday, Tiger Global led not one but two big funding rounds, announcing its role in a $26 million Series A for Ambi and an additional $50 million for Locus Robotics. The firm has been so active in investing of late, that neither one of these companies craTyk raises $35M for its open-source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management
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APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations’ IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don’t work) together can become complex and potentially critical if something goes awry. NowDoorDash launches alcohol delivery in U.S., Canada and Australia
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Food delivery service DoorDash will now deliver alcohol — a move that will allow it to better compete with rivals who already offer alcohol delivery in markets where permitted, like Uber Eats, Grubhub, Shipt, Instacart, and others. Initially, DoorDash wAs offices come back, ATMO launches air monitoring device claiming to give COVID-risk score
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Way back in 2015 we covered the launch of the Atmotube, a small, innovative, portable air quality monitor which went on to receive a number of awards, post its CES debut. Since rebranding as ATMO, the company, co-founded by Vera Kozyr, is now launching the AtCodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform
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The company’s technical assessment technology is a “flight simulator for developers,” that gives candidates a score based on a simulated evaluation of their skills.Avalanche raises $230 million from private sale of AVAX tokens
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Avalanche, a relatively new blockchain with a focus on speed and low transactions costs, has completed a $230 million private sale of AVAX tokens to some well known crypto funds. Polychain and Three Arrows Capital are leading the investment. The Avalanche FouWhat could stop the startup boom?
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Similar to how certain macroeconomic conditions have provided a long-term boost, a reversal of those conditions could do the opposite.Open Mineral raises $33M Series C funding for its ‘eBay for commodities trading’ platform
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Back in 2018 we covered how Open Mineral (OM), a startup aiming to leverage greater transparency in commodities trading, had raised $2.25 million. Well, they’ve come a long way and now the Zug, Switzerland-based, company has raised a $33 million Series C fuElodie Games obtains $32.5M round to make social co-op gaming better
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During the darkest hours of the pandemic, millions upon millions of people turned to online gaming as a way to pass time in lockdown and connect with friends they couldn’t see in person. But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming experiencRansomware: A market problem deserves a market solution
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To fight ransomware attacks, appreciate the economics — the markets that enable ransomware — and change the market dynamics.SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups
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SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. The faFTC says health apps must notify consumers about data breaches — or face fines
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned apps and devices that collect personal health information must notify consumers if their data is breached or shared with third parties without their permission. In a 3-2 vote on Wednesday, the FTC agreed onGoogle’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive
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Following entries into the newsletter market from tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, Google is now experimenting with newsletters, too. The company’s internal R&D division, Area 120, has a new project called Museletter, which allows anyone tNew Zealand startup HeartLab raises $2.45M to bring heart scanning software to the US
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New Zealand-based medtech startup HeartLab has raised $2.45 million in seed funding that it says will help the company expand its AI-powered heart scanning and reporting platform to cardiologists in the United States by early next year. HeartLab provides an eConcreit closes on $6M to allow more people to invest in the global private real estate market
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Concreit, a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. Hyphen Capital also participated in the round, in addition to individuaAlphabet’s Project Taara is beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River
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The high speed wireless optical link technology Alphabet originally developed for its shuttered Loon balloon company is currently being used for another moonshot called Project Taara.Byju’s acquires coding platform Tynker for $200 million in US expansion push
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Byju’s said on Thursday it has acquired California-headquartered Tynker, a leading coding platform for K-12 students, the latest in a series of major purchases as the Indian edtech giant attempts to aggressively expand to international markets. The companieAsian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs raises $100 million
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Pine Labs said on Thursday it has raised an additional $100 million, just weeks after securing $600 million in a financing round, as the Asian merchant commerce platform begins to explore the public markets. The U.S.-based investment management company InvescThe Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts
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LinkedIn normalized the idea of making people’s resume’s visible to anyone who wanted to look at them, and today a startup that’s hoping to do the same for companies and how they are organized and run is announcing some funding. The Org, whiGogoro will go public on Nasdaq after $2.35B SPAC deal
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Gogoro is going public. The company, which is best known for its electric Smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, announced today it will list on Nasdaq through a merger with Poema Global, a SPAC affiliated with Princeville Capital. The deal setsVolta Trucks raises €37 million to bring electric delivery trucks to the streets of London and Paris
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Trucking tends to be associated with highways, but it’s not uncommon to find large delivery vehicles trundling down the tightly packed streets of the world’s most populated cities. According to EV startup Volta Trucks, that’s far from ideal: in London,Liveblocks is an API that lets you add real-time collaboration to your product
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Meet Liveblocks, a startup that has been working on a set of APIs so that it’s easier to build a collaborative product. Essentially, it lets you create multiplayer experiences on the web or in your app. The company started with a live presence state API. IA16z in talks to back CoinSwitch Kuber in first India investment
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A16z is inching closer to making its first investment in a startup in India, the world’s second largest internet market that has produced over two dozen unicorns this year. The Menlo Park-headquartered firm is in final stages of conversations to investTanso nabs $1.9M pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting
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The climate crisis is creating massive demand for data capture as industries grapple with how to decarbonize. Put simply, you can’t cut your carbon emissions if don’t know what they are in the first place. This need to gather data is a big opportuAfrican genomics startup 54gene raises $25M to expand precision medicine capabilities
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Less than 3% of genetic material used in global pharmaceutical research is from Africa. The staggering gap is quite surprising because Africans and people of African descent are reported to be more genetically diverse than any other population. Since launchinSkello raises $47.3 million for its employee scheduling tool
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French startup Skello has raised a $47.3 million funding round (€40 million). The company has been working on a software-as-a-service tool that lets you manage the work schedule of your company. What makes it special is that Skello automatically takes intoOnline events platform Delegate Connect gets $10M AUD led by AirTree
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Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggesGillmor Gang: Off the Wall
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Most of us count the golden age of Michael Jackson’s career with the Quincy Jones produced global smashes of Thriller and Bad. Fueled by the stream of videos and multi-single releases (5 on Bad), the records dominated the charts, radio, and MTV. But thVietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform
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CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seInspiration4 crew, meet outer space: SpaceX’s first all-civilian mission launches to orbit
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The first all-civilian crew in history has made it to space. The Inspiration4 crew took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:04 EST PM, commencing the first space mission in human history featuring zero trained astronauts. The reusable firstTikTok is hiding a viral challenge that has kids stealing their school’s soap dispensers
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It’s back to school season and on TikTok, that means students are inexplicably stealing everything that isn’t bolted down. The latest TikTok trend to generally wreak social havoc sees students pulling off “devious licks” — small-scalDaily Crunch: SpaceX set to launch 4 civilians into orbit for 3-day mission
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Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.Goldman says $2.2B purchase of BNPL provider GreenSky will help expand Marcus
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The acquisition is positioned to bolster the firm's consumer business and offer new products and new ways to attract consumers to its Marcus by Goldman Sachs brand of finance products.
