Tag: TechCrunch

Wunder Mobility’s new lending business helps micromobility startups finance fleets (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan Wunder Mobility built its business selling software to shared scooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now, it’s banking on a new...

Tesla sees bitcoin as important financial tool to access cash quickly (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec Tesla’s relationship with bitcoin is not a dalliance, according to the comments made by the company’s CFO and dubbed “master of coin”...

Tesla wants to make every home a distributed power plant (TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to turn every home into a distributed power plant that would generate, store and even deliver energy back...

Blockchain startup S!NG wants creators to lean on NFTs to protect their intellectual property (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney After a years-long crypto winter, it been the spring of NFTs, but as digital art prices sober up after an explosion in sales,...

The next tech hearing targets social media algorithms — and YouTube, for once (TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker Another week, another big tech hearing in Congress. With a flurry of antitrust reform bills on the way, Democratic lawmakers are again bringing in...

Tesla grows 74% in the first quarter, besting expectations as its shares ease after hours (TechCrunch)

Alex Wilhelm Today after the bell, American electric car company Tesla reported its Q1 2021 financial performance. The company lost modest ground on the stock market...

Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app (TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez Facebook announced last week an expanded partnership with streaming music service Spotify that would bring a new way to listen to music or podcasts directly...

Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden, Zack Whittaker Moree M&A activity underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint, the...

Detroit-based Signal Advisors raises $10m Series A led by General Catalyst (TechCrunch)

Matt Burns Signal Advisors is building a specialized financial platform for financial advisors, and the company is announcing it raised a $10 million Series A led...

Investors eat up Orbillion Bio’s plans for lab-grown wagyu beef, elk, and bison (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/investors-eat-up-orbillion-bios-plans-for-lab-grown-wagyu-beef-elk-and-bison/

Mighty Networks raises $50M to build a creator economy for the masses (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Mighty Networks, a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50...

Insurgent UK broadband startup Cuckoo Internet raises $6M round led by RTP Global, with JamJar Investments (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the UK, has closed a $6 million investment round...

AI startup Faculty wins contract to predict future requirements for the UK’s NHS (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Faculty, a VC-backed artificial intelligence start-up, has won a tender to work with the NHS to make better predictions about its future requirements...

China’s e-commerce giant JD.com starts paying some staff in digital yuan (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao China’s plan to introduce its digital currency is getting a lot of help from its tech conglomerates. JD.com, a major Chinese online retailer...

India’s LEAD School raises $30 million to reach more students (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh An Indian startup that is helping digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families said on...

Alleged records of 20 million BigBasket users published online (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh A database of about 20 million alleged BigBasket users has leaked on a well-known cybercrime forum, months after the Indian grocery delivery startup...