Tag: TechCrunch

(Innovation/Technology/TechCrunch) Airtel Africa receives $100M for its mobile money business from Mastercard (TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of London-listed telecom Airtel Africa. After...

(Innovation/Technology) Bilibili ups the ante in games with $123 million investment in TapTap (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao Competition in China’s gaming industry is getting stiffer in recent times as tech giants sniff out potential buyouts and investments to beef up...

(Innovation/Technology) LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu LINE completed its merger with Yahoo! Japan owner Z Holdings last month, and now the two firm’s venture capital arms have also combined. Z Holdings...

(Innovation/Technology) How SOSV-backed Achiko pivoted from financial services to health tech during the COVID-19 pandemic (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Many companies had to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. For SOSV-backed Achiko, this meant shifting its focus from mobile payment services to affordable COVID-19...

(Innovation/Technology) Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less (TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos Cendana Capital, a San Francisco-based fund of funds manager, has amassed stakes in more than 100 venture firms since launching in 2010. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/cendana-has-raised-a-30-million-fund-of-funds-for-vcs-managing-15-million-or-less/

(Innovation/Technology) Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as the food deliver market continues to heat up (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in the...

(Innovation/Technology) Celonis announces significant partnership with IBM to sell its process mining software (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller Before you can improve a workflow, you have to understand how work advances through a business, which is more complex than you might...

(Innovation/Technology) PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/pingpong-is-a-video-chat-app-for-product-teams-working-across-multiple-time-zones/

(Innovation/Technology) For VC Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’ (TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/hatecrimes/

(Innovation/Technology) Daily Crunch: Facebook makes it easier to view a non-algorithmic News Feed (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Facebook has some thoughts and updates about its News Feed, Siri gets some new voices and Tonal becomes a unicorn. This is your...

(Space) Last two crewmembers named for SpaceX’s first all-civilian human spaceflight mission (TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington We now know the names of all four individuals who will fly on the historic Inspiration4 mission, the first all-civilian spaceflight in history. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/last-two-crewmembers-named-for-spacexs-first-all-civilian-human-spaceflight-mission/

(Innovation/Technology) LinkedIn adds Creator mode, video profiles, and in partnership with Microsoft, new career training tools (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden LinkedIn, the social network now with 740 million users around the world, has carved out an identity for itself as the place online...

(Innovation/Technology) Weather platform ClimaCell is now Tomorrow.io and raises $77M (TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois Weather intelligence platform ClimaCell today announced that it has raised a $77 million Series D funding round led by private equity firm Stonecourt Capital, with participation...

(Innovation/Technology) HYCU raises $87.5M to take on Rubrik and the rest in multi-cloud data backup and recovery (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden As more companies become ever more reliant on digital infrastructure for everyday work, the more they become major targets for malicious hackers —...

(Innovation/Technology) Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Eben Bayer has spent the better part of 14 years proving out the power of the humble mushroom as the world’s truly functional...

(Innovation/Technology) Byju’s in talks to acquire US-based reading platform Epic (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Byju’s is eying the acquisition of a startup that could help the biggest e-learning Indian firm deepen its footprint in the U.S. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/byjus-in-talks-to-acquire-us-based-reading-platform-epic/