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TechInnovation – Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service (Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch)

This morning Codat, a startup that provides APIs to link small-business fintech data to external services, announced that it has closed a $40 million round...

TechInnovation – Pinterest updates policy to prohibit ads promoting weight loss (Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch)

Starting today, Pinterest will prohibit all advertisers from sharing ads that promote weight loss. This includes any language and imagery that encourages weight loss,...

TechInnovation – Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service (Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch)

This morning Codat, a startup that provides APIs to link small-business fintech data to external services, announced that it has closed a $40 million round...

TechInnovation – Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s first crypto exchange, raises $200M from SoftBank (Mary Ann Azevedo, TechCrunch)

Mercado Bitcoin, a Latin American digital assets exchange, has raised $200 million in Series B funding from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s first...

TechInnovation – Tiger Global in talks to back Indian fintech Yap (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Tiger Global is in advanced stages of talks to back Indian embedded finance startup Yap, according to more than half a dozen people familiar...

TechInnovation – Instant grocery startup Getir makes its first acquisition to expand into Spain and Italy (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

Getir, the startup based out of Turkey that has built a $7.5 billion business out a mobile app that lets consumers buy groceries and get them...

TechInnovation – Germany’s icon group VC bets $30M to back startups enabling traditional companies to pivot (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

Icon group is a new $30M VC fund being launched out of Germany’s iconmobile group, a WPP network agency. This means a reorganization of...

TechInnovation – Rohlik raises $119M at a $1.2B valuation to grow its 2-hour grocery delivery service in Europe (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

“Instant” grocery delivery has been a big theme among food startups in Europe, where customers can order from a limited assortment of items and...

TechInnovation – Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups (Connie Loizos, TechCrunch)

Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science....

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