In growth marketing, signal determines success
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So what exactly is “signal” in growth marketing? It can carry many different meanings, but holistically speaking, it’s the event data in our arsenal to help guide decisions.The FDA should regulate Instagram’s algorithm as a drug
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Instagram’s unwillingness to do what is right is a clarion call for regulation: The FDA must assert its codified right to regulate the algorithm powering the drug of Instagram.Clubhouse hires a head of news from NPR to build out publisher relationships
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Clubhouse has hired a veteran editor from NPR to lead news publishing for the app. Nina Gregory will serve as Clubhouse’s Head of News and Media Publishers, working as a liaison between news publishers and the Clubhouse’s ecosystem of audio-based
Beware the hidden bias behind TikTok resumes
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Hiring processes need to be about letting people put their best foot forward, whether that is in writing or on video.OpenSea admits incident as top exec is accused of trading NFTs on insider information
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The “eBay of NFTs” is running into a scandal as it admits one of its employees traded the crypto digital assets using insider information from the platform. Yesterday, a top executive at NFT platform OpenSea was accused of front-running sales on tStamp your Passport to Disrupt for a chance to win these prizes
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As you prepare to dive in to three days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, be sure to take your passport. No, not the government-issued variety. Our Disrupt Passport lets you collect experiences during the virtual conference and gives you a chance to win some prettFront introduces customer-centric features with deeper CRM integration
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Customer communication platform Front is holding an event today to introduce three new features. These new features focus on showing you more information about your customers right from Front’s user interface. If you’re not familiar with Front, the companNews aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion
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SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it has closed on $230 million in Series F funding. The round brings SmartNeMicrosoft now lets you sign-in without a password
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Microsoft is further nudging users away from passwords by rolling out passwordless sign-in options to all consumer Microsoft accounts. The tech giant, like many others in the industry, has waged a war against traditional password-based authentication for somCheck out the amazing speakers joining us on Extra Cru… ahem, TechCrunch Live
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It’s been an Extra Crunch summer. We’ve heard how to craft your pitch deck around the one thing that really hooks an investor, and how the industry experience of Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong ticked every box for Emergence when raising her SChamath Palihapitiya is coming to Disrupt
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Retail investors love him. Venture capitalists envy him. But pretty much everyone writing checks these days is paying attention to Chamath Palihapitiya, whose star has been on the rise since the outset of his career at an early online media player called WinaForge’s SPAC deal is a bet on unicorn illiquidity
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The total addressable market that Forge serves is growing by the day, with more and more unicorns being born and a steady drumbeat of unicorn IPOs doing little to clear the decks.Airbase adds spend support for international subsidiaries
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Airbase, a corporate spend management startup, announced this morning that it now supports subsidiaries in different countries for U.S.-based businesses. As more companies lean into remote work, and a great many startups are founding themselves on multiple coDear Sophie: Should I apply for citizenship if I have a conviction?
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A few years ago, I was charged with a misdemeanor for smoking marijuana in public and driving under the influence. I have a green card and want to apply for U.S. citizenship next year. Can I?Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level
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Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today. At the same time, they revealed a previously unannounced $5 million seed round. Menlo Ventures and UnWhy bringing you emergency toothpaste could be big business
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic. This time ’round we took a look into the world of on-5 Reasons to need to go to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
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We’re thrilled that TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 is just slightly more than a month away on October 27. You have purchased your event ticket, right? No? Well then, it’s time to get your rhymes-with-SaaS in gear. Bonus: You’ll save $100 if you buy your pass beConstructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses
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One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s finding the right item, or paying for it in a quick and easy waYouTube TV expands its live TV service with more Spanish-language networks
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Google’s streaming TV service, YouTube TV, announced today it’s adding more Spanish-language networks to its base membership package and is preparing to launch an add-on package that will include even more Spanish-language content. Starting todayTwo years after launching, Inspired Capital has finished raising its second fund
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Inspired Capital, the New York-based early-stage venture firm that was founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, is today announcing the close of their second fund with $281 million in capital commitments, an amount that brings theIndex Ventures launches web-app to help founders calculate employee stock options
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The ability to offer stock options is utterly essential to startups. They convince talented people to join when the startup is unlikely to be capable of matching the high salaries that larger, established tech firms can offer. However, it’s a complex buAscend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance
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Ascend is moving insurance into the digital age by with a payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables.Watch SpaceX launch the first all-civilian Inspiration4 mission to space live
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After months of publicity, an NFT auction, and even a Netflix docu-series, it’s finally here: the four-person crew of Inspiration4 will be heading to space. What makes this launch different from any that came before it? None of the four people onboard are aGravity is launching an indoor charging hub in NYC with plans to scale
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Electric vehicle fleet and infrastructure startup Gravity thinks it has cracked the code for urban EV charging infrastructure. The company, which was founded in February this year, announced its construction project to convert an indoor parking garage in thSmarterTravel sheds HopJump name, begins a new journey with $9.5M round
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SmarterTravel provides personalized travel recommendations and targeted travel content.Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel
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Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipmenMatillion raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation for its low-code approach to integrating disparate data sources
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Businesses and the tech companies that serve them are run on data. At best, it can be used to help with decision-making, to understand how well or badly an organization is doing, and to build new systems to run the next generation of services. At its most chaEnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries
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In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even eleKapor Capital, Square co-founder Sam Wen back TomoCredit in its $10M Series A funding round
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Building credit history can be difficult if you are a consumer that is having trouble getting access to credit in the first place. Enter TomoCredit, which has developed a credit card focused on building credit history for first-time borrowers. The San FrancisWalmart to launch autonomous delivery service with Ford and Argo AI
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Walmart has tapped Argo AI and Ford to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Austin, Miami and Washington D.C., the companies said Wednesday. The service will allow customers to place online orders for groceries and other items using Walmart’Zonos banks $69M to develop APIs for democratizing cross-border commerce
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Zonos automatically classifies goods and calculates an accurate total landed cost on international transactions.Sendcloud nabs $177M led by SoftBank to double down on SaaS — shipping as a service
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E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of Covid-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive tEurope plans a Chips Act to boost semiconductor sovereignty
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The EU will use legislation to push for greater resilience and sovereignty in regional semiconductor supply chains. The bloc’s president trailed a forthcoming ‘European Chips Act’ in a state of the union speech today. Ursula von der Leyen suOnin is trying to fix event planning by combining calendar and chat
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What would happened if your go-to calendar and messaging apps were in fact one and the same thing? That’s the thinking behind Onin — a UK startup that wants to simplify event planning by, well, making a more organized app for organizing stuff. IfIreland probes TikTok’s handling of kids’ data and transfers to China
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has yet another ‘Big Tech’ GDPR probe to add to its pile: The regulator said yesterday it has opened two investigations into video sharing platform TikTok. The first covers how TikTok handles childPatient monitoring startup Doccla secures $3.3M Seed funding for ‘virtual wards’ platform
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Doccla, a healthtech startup with a platform that can monitor patients on hospital wards and in the home, has secured a $3.3 million Seed funding round, led by Giant Ventures and Speedinvest. The company allows hospitals to predict when beds will be freed upNigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology
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The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economiesFolk helps you share contacts with your team
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Folk is a new productivity tool started by European startup studio eFounders. And the startup just raised a $3.3 million seed funding round led by Accel with a big group of business angels. When you think about managing contacts and relationships in a professSwedish caller-identification service Truecaller seeks to raise over $100 million in IPO
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Truecaller, which operates an eponymous caller-identification service, said on Wednesday it is looking to raise $116 million in an initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm. The 12-year-old Stockholm-headquartered firm, which counts India as its biggest mar
