Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. The round was led by Coatue, with returning investors from Stripe, Crosslink Capital, Collaborative Fund, and Will Smithâs Dreamers VC. The startup [âŠ] Read more âș
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Welcome, the HR software that helps organizations make and close offers to new candidates, announced the close of a $6 million seed round today, led by FirstMark Capital. Participating investors include Ludlow Ventures, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, and Keenan Rice and Ben Porterfield (which were existing investors), as well as a wide array of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple has closed a $350 million funding round from a diverse consortium of strategic investors that include major U.S. corporations in rail, retail and freight, according to sources familiar with the deal. The round, which was oversubscribed, was led by VectoIQ LLC, confirming a report by TechCrunch in September. VectoIQ is the consulting [âŠ] Read more âș
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Jitsu, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort, is developing an open source data integration platform that helps developers send data to a data warehouse. Today, the startup announced a $2 million seed investment. Costanoa Ventures led the round with participation from YCombintaor, The House Fund and SignalFire. In addition to the open [âŠ] Read more âș
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As promised, more info following yesterdayâs Snapdragon 888 announcement. First off, as expected, the companyâs next flagship SoC will arrive in the first quarter of next year. Weâre still waiting on specific models, but as noted yesterday, the San Diego-based chip giant already has a lineup of smartphone makers planning to employ the 765 follow-up, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Shop-Ware has been waiting for a year like 2020 since 2015. The startup, which sells software to neighborhood automotive shops to digitize their operations, had struggled to capture capital from venture firms. Until recently, its sole major investor was aftermarket automotive giant Bosch. For companies like Shop-Ware, the disruptive wake of COVID-19 has cleared a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Looking Glassâs technology is extremely cool, but has, thus far, been prohibitively expensive, ranging from $600 for its 8.9-inch product to $6,000 for the 15-inch model â and an undisclosed sum for its 32-inch 8K display. Portrait might not be the most technically ambitious or versatile product the Brooklyn-based startup has produced, but itâs easily [âŠ] Read more âș
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Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented-reality mobile games. Jio has led the Series A fundraise of Krikey, founded by sisters Jhanvi and Ketaki Shriram, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Jan Bednar started ShipMonk with $70,000 in winnings from a string of student business plan competitions and launched the business that just closed on $290 million in new funding from a small warehouse with no air conditioning in the middle of Florida. While Bednarâs new offices are still inside the warehouse his company operates, they [âŠ] Read more âș
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Conferences have â for better or worse (and if youâve ever been trapped in a cavernous CES exhibition hall, you might say worse) â become a significant cornerstone of how industries engage with their audiences, whether they are comics superfans, or iOS developers, or insurance brokers. This year has undoubtedly seen a huge shift in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sifting through the trillions of molecules out there that might have powerful medicinal effects is a daunting task, but the solution biotech has found is to work smarter, not harder. Genesis Therapeutics has a new simulation approach and cross-disciplinary team that has clearly made an impression: the company just raised a $52 million A round. [âŠ] Read more âș
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The UKâs medicines regulator has approved the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 for emergency use, the companies said today. The UK is the first country to approve the vaccine for widespread use â paving the way for some of the most âhigh riskâ citizens, such as elderly care home residents, to get the jab before the end [âŠ] Read more âș
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Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank now with more than 4.8 million customers, has closed another ÂŁ60 million in funding, priced the same as and effectively an extension of the its previous top-up round in June. This saw Monzo valued by private investors at around ÂŁ1.2 billion, marked by industry observers as a down round because [âŠ] Read more âș
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Spotify is today launching its 2020 Wrapped personalized experience â the companyâs popular year-end review of usersâ favorite artists, songs, genres, and podcasts. This year, however, Spotify is making a few changes. For starters, Wrapped will be exclusively available on mobile for Spotify users, while a web experience will offer a version of Wrapped for [âŠ] Read more âș
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Fintech startup Revolut has two new features this week. First, the company is launching a web app for its regular users â not just business users. Second, in the U.K., Revolut has partnered with Modulr to let you receive your salary a day early. Revolut has historically focused its efforts on its mobile app. If [âŠ] Read more âș
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Eat Just will start offering lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore after gaining regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Justâs new GOOD Meat brand through partnerships with local manufacturers and go on sale to restaurants before it is available to consumers. No chickens were killed [âŠ] Read more âș
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Apple today released its highly anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of 2020. As in previous years, App Store editors selected the winners based on factors like the appâs quality, creative design, usability and use of Apple technology, among other things. The âBest of 2020â winners this year include a number of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Weâre excited to announce that Extra Crunch memberships are now available in Israel. That adds to our existing support in: United States Canada Argentina, Brazil, Mexico UK and select European countries Australia Sign up for Extra Crunch membership here. Use the code ISRAEL122020 during checkout for an additional 25% off an annual or 2-year plan. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Back in October Apple announced the MagSafe Duo, a folding travel charger capable of charging both the iPhone and the Apple Watch simultaneously and wirelessly. In an unusual move, the company didnât specify exactly when itâd start shipping â or even when itâd go up for sale. Some rumors suggested late December, while others were [âŠ] Read more âș
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Adam Nash, a Silicon Valley-born-and-bred operator and investor, is back at it again. Today, on his personal blog, he announced that he has started a consumer fintech company that has already garnered initial funding from Ribbit Capital, along with other âfriends and angelsâ who appear to have also pitched into the round, including Box CEO [âŠ] Read more âș
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