Tag: TechCrunch

YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa (TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor In public schools across Africa, classrooms are often overcrowded and this affects how teachers and students interact. The large classroom creates too much work...

Solving the security challenges of public cloud (TechCrunch)

Nick Lippis Experts believe the data-lake market will hit a massive $31.5 billion in the next six years, a prediction that has led to much concern among...

8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades,...

Filing: Snap paid $124M for Fit Analytics as it gears up for a bigger e-commerce push (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden Earlier this year we reported on how Snap had acquired Berlin-based Fit Analytics, an AI-based fitting technology startup, as part of a wider push into...

Hawke Ventures raises $5.6M to back digital marketing startups (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Hawke Ventures, the investment arm of marketing consultancy Hawke Media, is announcing that it has closed its first $5.6 million venture fund. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/23/hawke-ventures/

Crypto market takes a dive with Bitcoin leading the way (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney Cryptocurrency prices continued to tumble Friday with Bitcoin leading the charge, with prices for the internet currency dipping below $50,000 for the first...

Longevity startup Longevica plans to launch supplements based on long-term research (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher A biotech company that has spent 11 years researching supplements to increase human longevity plans to launch its supplements later this year. Longevica...

Introvoke raises $2.7M to power online events that can be embedded anywhere (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha While there’s been plenty of attention and money lavished on virtual event platforms over the past year, Introvoke co-founder and CEO Oana Manolache predicted that...

Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round (TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec After spending much of his career in mission-critical environments, including the Israeli Air Force, Israeli Intelligence and leading development of a cybersecurity product...

Since colleges are failing to prepare students for tech jobs, it’s time to bring back apprenticeships (TechCrunch)

Sophie Ruddock, Ryan Craig You can always tell a system is broken when you change the inputs and the outcomes don’t improve. Any software engineer will...

Europe – EU’s top data protection supervisor urges ban on facial recognition in public (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas The European Union’s lead data protection supervisor has called for remote biometric surveillance in public places to be banned outright under incoming AI...

Semiconductor specialist Alphawave IP plans $4.5Bn London IPO and move to UK HQ (Techcrunch)

Mike Butcher Alphawave IP is a global semiconductor IP company that focuses on the way semiconductors communicate — something which is going to be crucial as...

Citi Bike rival JOCO brings shared, docked e-bikes to NYC (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan Move over Citi Bike, there’s a new docked, shared bike service in town — only this one is all electric. Next week, JOCO...

Deepfake tech takes on satellite maps (TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey While the concept of “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is...

At Basis Set Ventures, merging venture capital and software development yields a $165 million new fund (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber When Xuezhao Lan first formed Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to leverage technology to give venture capital investing super powers. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/22/at-basis-set-ventures-merging-venture-capital-and-software-development-yields-a-165-million-new-fund/

Audi spinoff holoride collects $12m in Series A led by Terranet AB (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan Holoride, the company that’s building an immersive XR in-vehicle media platform, today announced it raised €10 million (approximately $12 million) in its Series...