Tag: TechCrunch

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....

TechInnovation – Nodes & Links raises $11M to — maybe — save billions on the big projects the world needs now (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

Nodes & Links is a scheduling platform for large-scale infrastructure projects which works out when the nuts and bolts for the bridge (for example) should...

TechInnovation – VividQ, which has raised $15M, says it can turn normal screens into holographic displays (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

VividQ, a UK-based deeptech startup with technology for rendering holograms on legacy screens, has raised $15 million to develop its technology for next-generation digital...

TechInnovation – Indian tech startup exposed Byju’s student data (Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch)

India-based technology startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that was spilling private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education...

TechInnovation – Sequoia Capital India unveils fifth group of startups for Surge (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Sequoia Capital India has selected 23 early-stage startups for its fifth cohort of Surge, its accelerator program for India and Southeast Asia, at a...

TechInnovation – Tiger Global leads $31.5M investment in interactive edtech Quizizz (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Quizizz, an Indian startup that is making learning more interactive so that students find it compelling to spend more hours studying, said on Wednesday...

TechInnovation – Lollipop AI launches online grocery marketplace where you can build your own recipes (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

As I’ve taken to online grocery shopping over the pandemic, I’ve always wondered why supermarkets didn’t offer simple ‘recipe’ features that would have automatically...

TechInnovation – Facebook’s newsletter platform Bulletin is now live (Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch)

The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to...

TechInnovation – Zomato’s $100 million investment to turn Grofers into a unicorn (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Indian food delivery giant Zomato, which is working to explore the public markets later this year, has reached an agreement to invest $100 million in...

TechInnovation – Family app Life360 announces $2.1M investment round from celebs and influencers (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Family communication and tracking app Life360 has announced a new investment round that will see the company bringing on board a number of “celeb” investors and...

TechInnovation – Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it’s also lowering its cut of developer revenue across...

TechInnovation – Nansen raises $12M from a16z to help investors make sense of crypto markets (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

While the ambitions of crypto investors have swelled even faster than the market has in recent months, institutional players have had a mountain of...

USA – 5 policies Washington should enact to end the climate crisis and joblessness (Bobby Franklin, Michael Brown, TechCrunch)

The importance of the U.S. startup ecosystem was made crystal clear during the pandemic: Many of us came to rely on new technologies that...

TechInnovation – Visier raises $125M at a $1B valuation for its big-data approach to HR analytics and planning (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

The world of work has changed massively in the last year, and with it a rush of startups have emerged with new technology and...

TechInnovation – Gympass, the corporate wellness unicorn, raises a $220M series E (Marcella McCarthy, TechCrunch)

Gympass, the exercise and corporate wellness unicorn that originated in Brazil, today announced a $220 million Series E. The company has seen tremendous growth...

TechInnovation – 4G Clinical’s clinical trial management software attracts over $200M in new funding (Emma Betuel, TechCrunch)

The pandemic significantly changed how we do medical research, and now companies are trying to figure out what trends will stay and which ones...