DealShare, a startup in India that has built an e-commerce platform for middle and lower income groups of consumers in the worldâs second largest market, said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in a new financing round. WestBridge Capital led the Series C round of the three-year-old Bangalore-headquartered startup. Alpha Wave Incubation, a venture [âŠ] Read more âș
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Outfund, the revenue-based finance startup that wants to help online businesses fund growth without giving away equity, has raised ÂŁ37 million in a âlate seedâ investment. A mixture of debt and equity, the round is led by Fuel Ventures, alongside TMT Investment. Outfund says it will use the funds to offer larger financing to more [âŠ] Read more âș
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Most people know Wish as a site that sells throwaway doodads from China, but in anticipation of its impending IPO, the ten-year-old, San Francisco-based company has begun portraying itself as a kind of Amazon for the rest of us. Judging by what weâve read and heard from sources in recent months, Wish wants to paint [âŠ] Read more âș
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Lemonade is launching its renters insurance in France. This is the companyâs third European launch after the Netherlands and Germany. Originally from the U.S., Lemonade is now a public company with a current market capitalization close to $4 billion. Lemonade will compete directly with a local competitor called Luko. Both companies share a lot of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Shippit, a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2 million USD) Series B led by Tiger Global, with participation from Jason Lenga. Founded in 2014, Shippitâs technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and [âŠ] Read more âș
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Despite several efforts from carriers, telecom regulators, mobile operating system developers, smartphone makers, and a global pandemic, spam calls continued to pester and scam people around the globe this year â and they only got worse. Users worldwide received 31.3 billion spam calls between January and October this year, up from 26 billion during the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Young people have long been a prime, if especially careful, target for financial services companies: find the right and responsible way to connect with them, and you could have a good customer for many years. Today, one of the startups building services specifically for those under 18 is announcing a round of growth funding, money [âŠ] Read more âș
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Getsafe, the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round. Existing investors, including Earlybird and CommerzVentures, also participated. Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Another federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against U.S. government restrictions that would have effectively banned TikTok from operating in the United States. The ruling (embedded below) was made by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols in a lawsuit filed by TikTok and ByteDance against President Donald Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and [âŠ] Read more âș
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Harry Destecroix co-founded Ziylo while studying for his PhD at the University of Bristol. Ziylo, a university spin-out company, developed a synthetic molecule allowing glucose to bind with the bloodstream more effectively. Four years later, and by then a Phd, Destecroix sold the company to Danish firm Novo Nordisk, one of the biggest manufacturers of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sometimes itâs just not worth it to try to top Mother Nature. Such seems to have been the judgment by engineers at the University of Washington, who, deploring the absence of chemical sensors as fine as a mothâs antennas, opted to repurpose moth biology rather than invent new human technology. Behold the âSmellicopter.â Mounted on [âŠ] Read more âș
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You can listen to Apple Music on your Google Nest device, Apple is working to top Intel with its next set of chips and Cisco acquires Slido. This is your Daily Crunch for December 7, 2020. The big story: Google smart speakers add Apple Music support Google announced this morning that devices including the Nest [âŠ] Read more âș
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Like a lot of startups, Aarmy faced some big challenges when the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns in March. Up until then, Aarmy was offering in-person fitness classes from its locations in New York and Los Angeles. Trey Laird, who founded the startup with trainers Akin Akman (chief fitness officer) and Angela Manuel-Davis (chief motivation officer), [âŠ] Read more âș
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Practically speaking, itâs nearly impossible to offer a real review of Cyberpunk 2077, the long-awaited follow-up to The Witcher 3 from developer CD Projekt Red. In the first place, itâs so big that the few days Iâve had with it arenât enough to realistically evaluate the game; second, itâs so buggy and janky now that [âŠ] Read more âș
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Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firmâs self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25 billion following [âŠ] Read more âș
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Odysee is a new video site that CEO Jeremy Kauffman said was created to recapture some of the freedom and independence of the internet he grew up with â an internet where âanyone could speak and anyone could have a voice.â Kauffman argued that since then, the internet has become âvery corporate,â with a small number [âŠ] Read more âș
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Do people want their at-home fitness to come in video game form? The incredible popularity of games like Ring Fit Adventure suggests yes. London-based startup Quell thinks itâs just the beginning for this genre, and theyâve raised a $3M seed round to help prove it. At the core of Quellâs gameplay is the âGauntletâ â a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, the investment firm which spun out of Alphabetâs Sidewalk Labs to fund and develop the next generation of infrastructure, has unveiled its latest project â Reslia, which focuses on upgrading the efficiency and reliability of power grids. Through a $20 million equity investment in the startup OhmConnect, and an $80 million commitment [âŠ] Read more âș
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finn.auto â which allows people to subscribe to their car instead of owning it, and offsetting their CO2 emissions â has raised a $24.2M / âŹ20M Series A funding round. White Star Capital (which has also invested in Tier Mobility), and the Zalando co-CEOs Rubin Ritter, David Schneider and Robert Gentz are new investors in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitterâs timeline is currently overrun with ads for some users, in what appears to be a glitch involving the distribution of Promoted Tweets. Typically, a Promoted Tweet â which is just a regular tweet an advertiser has paid to promote more broadly â will appear just once at the top of a userâs timeline, then [âŠ] Read more âș
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