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- This Week in Apps: App Store bill passes AZ House, ‘deep nostalgia’ goes viral, Twitter Spaces arrives on Android
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 11:08 AMWelcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. - The owner of Anki’s assets plans to relaunch Cozmo and Vector this year
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 05:20 PMGood robots don’t die — they just have their assets sold off to the highest bidder. Digital Dream Labs was there to sweep up IP in the wake of Anki’s premature implosion, back in 2019.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scale up your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 12:21 PMFounders in the earliest stages of startup life face a hefty learning curve. Just some of the core competencies you need to lock down include how to raise VC funding, recruiting the right people, finding product-market fit and building a killer go-to-market team.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Rani Therapeutics’ robotic pill could change subcutaneous injection treatment
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 01:21 PMA new auto-injecting pill might soon become a replacement for subcutaneous injection treatments.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How and when to hire your first product manager
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:30 PMIn the world of early-stage startups, job titles are often a formality. In reality, each employee may handle a dozen responsibilities outside their job description. The choose-your-own-adventure type of work style is part of the magic of startups and often why generalists thrive here.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How the Biden administration is approaching crypto regulations
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 04:25 PMLeigh Cuen
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SoftBank makes mountains of cash off of human laziness
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 10:00 AMHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The technology selloff is getting to be somewhat material
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 11:22 AMTech stocks are getting hammered today, with previously high-flying shares of software companies taking even more damage.
For a sector that has enjoyed a year in the sun, recent trading sessions have punctured a period of market adoration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 04:22 AMAccording to Startup Genome, Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges
Thursday - 03/04/2021 - 02:09 PMTechCrunch Early Stage is coming around the corner fast, April 1 and 2. You still have a chance to pitch your startup on the famous TC stage to an amazing lineup of judges.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Deep Science: AI adventures in arts and letters
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 04:31 PMThere’s more AI news out there than anyone can possibly keep up with. But you can stay tolerably up to date on the most interesting developments with this column, which collects AI and machine learning advancements from around the world and explains why they might be important to tech, startups or civilization.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snowflake latest enterprise company to feel Wall Street’s wrath after good quarter
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 05:29 PMSnowflake reported earnings this week, and the results look strong with revenue more than doubling year-over-year.
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However, while the company’s fourth quarter revenue rose 117% to $190.5 million, it apparently wasn’t good enough for investors, who have sent the company’s stock tumbling since it reported Wednesday after the bell. - Address cybersecurity challenges before rolling out robotic process automation
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 01:05 PMAlan Radford
ContributorAlan Radford is regional CTO of One Identity and has a passion for helping organizations solve unique challenges in the identity
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dan Siroker’s new startup Scribe automates Zoom note-taking
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:03 PMOptimizely co-founder Dan Siroker said the idea for his new startup Scribe goes back to a couple of personal experiences — and although Scribe’s first product is focused on Zoom, those experiences weren’t Zoom-related at all.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Tesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 03:58 PMTesla plans to shut down the forums section on its website as it launches a new social platform called the Tesla Engagement Platform, a move that’s raised the ire of a community of its most ardent supporters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Scrum Ventures launches new program to connect startups with Japanese corporations
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - YC-backed Pangea discusses growth, fundraising ahead of demo day
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 10:51 AMPangea, a marketplace startup that wants to connect college freelancers and companies in need of digital help, is seeing its growth rate accelerate as it races toward the impending Y Combinator demo day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Albertsons taps Tortoise for remote-controlled grocery delivery robots
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 11:24 AMAlbertsons Companies, the grocery giant that owns Safeway and Jewel-Osco, has launched a pilot program that will test grocery delivery using remote-controlled delivery robots developed by Silicon Valley startup Tortoise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 12:28 AMSiCepat, an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users
Thursday - 03/04/2021 - 02:17 PMA lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth.
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- VC Lindy Fishburne on the sudden democratization of science — and deep tech investing
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 02:58 AMDeep science investor Lindy Fishburne cofounded the seed- and early-stage venture firm Breakout Ventures several years ago, after cofounding Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation back in 2011, and she has made a wide array of interesting bets in the process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A first look at Coursera’s S-1 filing
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 06:07 PMAfter TechCrunch broke the news yesterday that Coursera was planning to file its S-1 today, the edtech company officially dropped the document Friday evening.
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Coursera was last valued at $2.4 billion by the private markets, when it most recently raised a Series F round in October 2020 that was worth $130 million. - Eco raises $26M in a16z-led round to scale its digital cryptocurrency platform
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 12:28 PMEco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto.
Founded in 2018, the SF-based startup’s platform is designed to be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK’s MHRA says it has ‘concerns’ about Babylon Health — and flags legal gap around triage chatbots
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:14 PMThe U.K.’s medical device regulator has admitted it has concerns about VC-backed AI chatbot maker Babylon Health. It made the admission in a letter sent to a clinician who’s been raising the alarm about Babylon’s approach toward patient safety and corporate governance since 2017.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California bill would require all self-driving vehicles to be zero emission by 2025
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 03:08 PMCalifornia might be the first state to give self-driving cars a deadline to electrify.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya sells off remaining personal stake in the space company
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 08:09 AMThe man who arguably ushered in the current SPAC rush with the merger of Virgin Galactic with his Social Capital Hedosophia holding company has divested the remainder of his personal holdings in the space tourism company.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Understanding how investors value growth in 2021
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 10:38 AMWe’re not digging into another IPO filing today. You can read all about AppLovin’s filing here, or ThredUp’s document here.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What China’s Big Tech CEOs propose at the annual parliament meeting
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:31 AMThe annual meetings of the Chinese parliament and its advisory body are underway in Beijing this week. Top executives from some of China’s largest tech firms are among the thousands of delegates who attend and put forward their opinions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- InsurGrid raises pre-seed financing to help modernize legacy insurance agents
Thursday - 03/04/2021 - 07:22 PMInsurance agents spend hours handling paperwork and grabbing client information over the phone. A new seed-stage startup, InsurGrid, has developed a software solution to help ease the process, and make it easier for agents to serve existing clients — and secure new ones.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Whatnot raises $20M for its livestreaming platform built for selling Pokémon cards and other collectibles
Thursday - 03/04/2021 - 02:23 PMWhen I first wrote about Whatnot in February of last year, they were just getting started. Aiming to be the GOAT of collectible toys, they were focusing first on being the go-to trusted spot for buying and selling authenticated Funko Pop figurines.
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