Itâs difficult to get credit if you donât have credit. Thatâs the problem that startup TomoCredit is trying to solve. Co-founder and CEO Kristy Kim came up with the concept for the company after being rejected multiple times for an auto loan while in her early 20s. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South [âŠ] Read more âș
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Podz is the latest startup trying to solve the problem of podcast discovery, with backing from investors like M13, Katie Couric and Paris Hilton. âEven though podcasts have gained a lot of momentum â there are 100 million folks in the U.S. who listen to podcasts â we still havenât seen that crossover behavior, where [âŠ] Read more âș
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Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup targeting the urban air mobility market, has landed United Airlines as a customer and an investor in its bid to become a publicly traded company via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Archer Aviation said Wednesday it reached an agreement to merge with special purpose acquisition company [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Amazon Marketplace roll-up play is well and truly underway. In the latest development, Thrasio â one of the biggest and earliest movers in the market to consolidate third-party sellers on the platform, with the promise to provide better economies of scale to manage and grow those businesses â announced that it has raised another [âŠ] Read more âș
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Freelancers who work well together in teams are the target for Collective, a French startup thatâs launching a software-as-a-service marketplace today. (Not to be confused with Collective, a US-based startup that offers back-office tools for the self employed running a business-of-one.) Collective (the French âteamsâ edition) is co-founded by Jean de Rauglaudre and Vianney de [âŠ] Read more âș
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Uptime, the self-described âknowledge hackingâ app, has raised $16 million in seed funding, after officially launching on iOS in January. Positioned as a âmicro-learningâ platform,â Uptime presents five-minute âknowledge hacksâ from books, courses and documentaries. The idea is to let you quickly âgrasp ideas and insights from trusted authors, instructors, and creative minds,â without spending [âŠ] Read more âș
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Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 billion in assets under management, has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Copenhagen-based Labster, which sells virtual science laboratory simulations to schools, announced today that it has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by the prominent [âŠ] Read more âș
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Snap has partnered with ShareChatâs Moj app to integrate its Camera Kit into the Indian app as the American social giant looks to accelerate its growth in the worldâs second largest internet market. This is the first time Snap has partnered with an Indian firm for its Camera Kit technology, which unlocks a range of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Fintech startup Klarna is turning its mobile app into a banking app in Germany. Customers living there can now open a consumer bank account and get a Visa debit card. For now, Klarna is launching bank accounts for a limited number of users. The company expects to roll it out more broadly in the coming [âŠ] Read more âș
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Most people who use AI-powered translation tools do so for commonplace, relatively unimportant tasks like understanding a single phrase or quote. Those basic services wonât do for an enterprise offering technical documents in 15 languages â but Lengooâs custom machine translation models might just do the trick. And with a new $20M B round, they [âŠ] Read more âș
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Alexa von Tobel has always felt strongly that too many people are shut out of the stock market. She felt this as a 23-year-old who didnât have $5,000 to open a brokerage account. She felt it while building LearnVest, a financial planning startup she launched in 2009 and sold in 2015 to Northwestern Mutual for [âŠ] Read more âș
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IROKO, a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. According to this report, the media company will raise between $20 [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitter said on Wednesday it has taken actions on more than 500 accounts and reduced visibility of some hashtags in the past 10 days to comply with âseveralâ orders from the Indian government after New Delhi threatened to take action against executives with American social network for not obeying its notices. Twitter said since January [âŠ] Read more âș
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In a large win for the Korean startup ecosystem, dating powerhouse Match Group announced this afternoon that it would buy social networking company Hyperconnect for a combined cash and stock deal valued at $1.73 billion. Hyperconnect, which is projected to have $200 million in revenue in 2020 (up 50% from 2019) according to the company, [âŠ] Read more âș
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OpenOcean, a European VC which has tended to specialise in big-data-oriented startups and deep tech, has reach the âŹ92 million ($111.5 million) mark for its third main venture fund, and is aiming for a final close of âŹ130M by mid-way this year. LPs in the new fund include the European Investment Fund (EIF), Tesi, pension [âŠ] Read more âș
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NASA has announced that SpaceX will take two major parts of the Gateway lunar orbiter that will function as a pit stop for future Moon missions. The Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost â which together will form the first usable lunar space station â will go up in 2024 on a [âŠ] Read more âș
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The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellersâ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle. Who knew leaving [âŠ] Read more âș
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Hyundai Motor Group is back with a new âwalking carâ robot that can use its wheels to roll along a path or stand up and navigate tougher terrain on its legs. This time, the concept is designed to carry cargo and is small enough to be carried by a drone. The TIGER robot â short [âŠ] Read more âș
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Reddit raises more funding, Shopify expands payments to Facebook and a study suggests that the Apple Watch might be able to predict COVID diagnoses. This is your Daily Crunch for February 9, 2021. The big story: Reddit raises $250M This latest funding announcement comes after Reddit has returned to the headlines, with the WallStreetBets subreddit [âŠ] Read more âș
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What, you are no doubt asking, is a worm a blob? Well, itâs a blob of worms, obviously. More specifically, itâs a blob of California blackworms. Itâs not a flock, nor a swam nor a school. Itâs a big, undulating mass of a Lumbriculus variegatus tangled up, but somehow moving as one. Roboticists, of course, [âŠ] Read more âș
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