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- N26 reaches 5 million customers, including 250,000 in the US
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 08:00 AMChallenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add more than 2.5 million customers. And the company’s growth rate seems to be accelerating, as N26 reached 3.5 million customers in June 2019.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Berlin venture studio Merantix raises $27M fund to concentrate on AI startups
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 09:51 AMBerlin-based Merantix, a venture studio that specifically concentrates on building “AI companies,” says it has raised a new €25 million fund ($27 million). Anchor investors include Trusted Insight, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 4 days left to save $150 on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 10:30 AMThe countdown to savings continues, and you have just four days left to score the best price on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020. Join 1,500 of the brightest minds and innovators in robotics and machine learning — technologists, founders, investors, engineers and researchers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Mural raises $23M Series A after history of capital-efficient growth
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 10:52 AMThis morning Mural, a software startup focused on visual collaboration,1 announced that it closed a $23 million Series A round of capital. The funds come after Mural, formerly Mural.ly, had raised just a few million dollars previously.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Casper’s valuation could fall 40% in IPO as it reports 2019 results
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 12:05 PMHello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bird confirms acquisition of Berlin scooter rival Circ
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 01:00 PMIf you didn’t see this coming, then clearly you didn’t have your eyes on the road. Bird, the LA-founded e-scooter giant, has confirmed that it is acquiring European competitor Circ, the micromobilty company founded by Lukasz Gadowski of Delivery Hero fame.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indian B2B packaging marketplace Bizongo raises $30M
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 05:15 AMBizongo, one of the largest business-to-business online marketplaces for packaging needs in India, has raised $30 million in fresh funding round as it looks to widen its footprint in the nation and expand to more categories.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Gauging email success, invite-only app launches and other growth tactics
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 05:00 PMJulian Shapiro
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sundance: In Miss Americana, Taylor Swift demotes the Internet
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 12:06 PMIn nearly a decade of attending Sundance, I’ve never seen a scene like the premiere of the documentary Miss Americana, detailing the last year and a half or so of Taylor Swift’s life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Startups Weekly: Tech layoffs spread (a bit)
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 12:02 PMAre January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters?
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TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very much profits, as Alex Wilhelm summed up on Thursday, especially after the failed WeWork IPO and subsequent valuation and headcount decimation.
- Equity Monday: A global selloff, MURAL snags $23M and two unicorns that can’t raise
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WholyMe, which makes natural products for chronic pain, closes seed round
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 10:14 AMWholyMe, a London startup that makes and markets “natural relief” products to manage chronic pain, has closed a £500,000 seed round from investors Financière Saint James, V1 Capital, Guibor and business angels.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- GM commits $3 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles in Michigan
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 10:34 AMGM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs, as well as a self-driving vehicle unveiled by its subsidiary Cruise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Max Q: Lego Space Stations and robot astronauts
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 11:02 AMMax Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox.
This week saw a huge funding round for a new space startup that’s working on the problem of distribution and use of the new data networks made possible by the explosion in the small satellite and satellite constellation industry.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Los Angeles’ AmazeVR raises more cash, heads to Incheon for first location based VR installation
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 12:32 PMAmaze VR, the Los Angeles-based virtual reality entertainment distribution service, is taking its first steps into the world of location-based virtual reality experiences with an installation in Seoul’s Incheon International Airport.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Daily Crunch: Tech notables react to Kobe Bryant’s death
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 01:01 PMThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 10:22 PMThe Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., shortly before 10 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Technology is anthropology
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 06:00 PMThe interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the technology that matters. What matters is how people react to it, and what new social norms they form.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- This Week in Apps: Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 11:04 AMWelcome back to ThisWeek in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 12:10 AMThe startup community has lost another moral leader today.
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Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma, a form of cancer, according to a statement from the company.
- Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the US by providing API access to bank accounts
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 08:05 AM“They’re idiots, they’re really naive,” is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the body charged with delivering open banking in the U.K.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AI-powered voice transcription app Otter raises $10M, including from new strategic investor NTT DOCOMO
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 10:18 AMOtter.ai, an AI-powered transcription app and note-takers’ best friend, has received a strategic investment from Japan’s leading mobile operator and new Otter partner, NTT DOCOMO Inc. The two companies are teaming up to support Otter’s expansion into the Japanese market, where DOCOMO will be integrating Otter with its own AI-based translation service subsidiary, Mirai Translation, in order to provide accurate English transcripts, which are then translated into Japanese.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Adding India to your business
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Get ready to see Spotify’s looping videos on Instagram
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 11:27 AMFollowing Spotify’s confirmation of a new Stories feature, initially being tested by social media influencers, the company this morning announced it will now allow artists to reach their Instagram fan bases in a new way, too.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Boston Dynamics’ new and former CEOs discuss future of the robotics pioneer
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 12:30 PMAfter more than a quarter century, Boston Dynamics has a new CEO. The transition (which quietly occurred late last year), saw founder Marc Raibert step aside to become chairman, as longtime employee Rob Playter took the reins.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kidtech startup SuperAwesome raises $17M, with strategic investment from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund
Monday - 01/27/2020 - 01:30 PMKidtech startup SuperAwesome has raised an additional $17 million in funding, which includes a new strategic investment from Microsoft’s venture fund, M12. Others participating in the round include existing investors, Mayfair Equity, Hoxton Ventures, and Ibis, along with other angels.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch SpaceX launch another batch of its Starlink satellites live
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Currencycloud nabs $80M from Visa, World Bank Group and more for cross-border payment APIs
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 07:04 PMSending money from one country to another — either because you are a business paying someone for a service, or a family member working abroad and sending money back home, or something in between — is a huge business, worth some $700 million annually.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Little America’ chooses uplift over anger
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 01:54 PM“Little America,” a new anthology series on Apple TV+, has been widely described as the best show on the fledging streaming service.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kraftful raises $1M to help smart home companies make better apps
Friday - 01/24/2020 - 04:10 PMIf a thousand companies make their own smart light bulb, do a thousand companies also have to design a light switch app to control them?
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