Tag: TechCrunch

FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden “Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services —...

‘Pure’ nutritional supplements startup Feel closes $6.2M investment, led by Fuel Ventures (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Earlier this year we covered the launch of Heights, a new supplements startup in an increasingly hot category. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/pure-nutritional-supplements-startup-feel-closes-6-2m-investment-led-by-fuel-ventures/

Cusp Capital launches with a $361M fund for early stage startups in Germany and Europe (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher In the past ten years, an investment team led by Christian Winter, Jan Sessenhausen, Helmut Klawitter and Wilken Engelbracht worked principally with German family offices, investing...

Qapita, a developer of equity management software for startups, raises $5M led by MassMutual Ventures (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Qapita, a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A...

Huawei is not a carmaker. It wants to be the Bosch of China (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao One after another, Chinese tech giants have announced their plans for the auto space over the last few months. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/huawei-auto-strategy/

European e-scooter and micromobility startup Dott raises $85 million (TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet Dott has raised a new $85 million Series B funding round — this round is a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/european-e-scooter-and-micromobility-startup-dott-raises-85-million/

Singapore-based fintech STACS raises $3.6M to develop blockchain platforms for financial institutions (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Singapore-based fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (STACS) announced today it has raised $3.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/singapore-based-fintech-stacs-raises-3-6m-to-develop-blockchain-platforms-for-financial-institutions/

Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Indonesian startup CoLearn started as a chain of physical tutoring centers and was in the process of shifting to a hybrid offline-online model when the...

Payhawk raises $20M to unify corporate cards, payments and expenses (TechCrunxh)

Romain Dillet Fintech startup Payhawk has raised a $20 million funding round. QED Investors is leading the round with existing investor Earlybird Digital East also participating. Payhawk...

1Doc3, a Colombian telemedicine startup, raises $3 million (TechCrunch)

Marcella McCarthy The pandemic has made telemedicine video visits in the U.S. almost commonplace, but in Latin America, where broadband isn’t widely available, 1Doc3 is...

Medtronic partners with cybersecurity startup Sternum to protect its pacemakers from hackers (TechCrunch)

Marcella McCarthy If you think cyberattacks are scary, what if those attacks were directed at your cardiac pacemaker? https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/16/medtronic-partners-with-sternum-iot-cybersecurity-startup-to-protect-its-pacemakers-from-hackers/

Facebook faces ‘mass action’ lawsuit in Europe over 2019 breach (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas Facebook is to be sued in Europe over the major leak of user data that dates back to 2019 but which only came to...

Oxbotica raises $13.8M from Ocado to build autonomous vehicle tech for the online grocer’s logistics network (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden Ocado, the UK online grocer that has been making strides reselling its technology to other grocery companies to help them build and run...

Sen. Wyden proposes limits on exportation of American’s personal data (TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has proposed a draft bill that would limit the types of information that could be bought and sold by tech companies...

Twitter bans James O’Keefe of Project Veritas over fake account policy (TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey Twitter has banned right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe, creator of political gotcha video producer Project Veritas, for violating its “platform manipulation and spam policy,”...

(Innovation/Technology/Spotify) Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019 (TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez Spotify is opening up its personalized playlist, “On Repeat,” to advertising sponsorship. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/spotify-opens-a-second-personalized-playlist-to-sponsors-after-discover-weekly-in-2019/