Brian Heater Boston Dynamics’ transition from a decades-long research robotics firm to a company that productizes and sells hardware has been a fascinating one to watch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/29/this-is-boston-dynamics-next-commercial-robot/

Romain Dillet Meet Singular, a new VC firm based in Paris that just finished raising its initial fund. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/29/singular-is-a-new-paris-based-vc-firm-with-265-million/

Ingrid Lunden Cazoo, the UK used-car sales portal that has been on a major fundraising tear in the last year, will be next company to...

Jonathan Shieber Last week the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the national government’s plan to tax carbon emissions was legal in a decision that could have significant...

Catherine Shu Ajaib, the Indonesian investment app, has added $65 million to its Series A, bringing the round’s new total to $90 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/28/ajaib-raises-65m-series-a-extension-led-by-ribbit-capital-increasing-the-rounds-total-to-90m/

Jonathan Shieber Who knew building a vertical software as a service toolkit focused on home heating and cooling could be worth $8.3 billion? https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/27/with-an-arr-topping-250-million-las-vertical-saas-superstar-servicetitan-is-now-worth-8-3-billion/

Mary Ann Azevedo One of the biggest pain points for startups and small businesses is keeping up with back office tasks such as bookkeeping and...

Connie Loizos John Ruffolo isn’t as famous as some investors but he’s very well-known in Canadian business circles. The longtime head of Arthur Andersen’s tech,...

Ron Miller Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate on the platform. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/slack-wants-to-be-more-than-a-text-based-messaging-platform/

Anthony Ha “Headless commerce” is a phrase that gets thrown around lot (I’ve typed it several times today already), but Vue Storefront CEO Patrick Friday has an especially vivid...

Harris Lummis In October 2019, The New York Times reported that 1.5 million packages were delivered in New York City every single day. Though convenient for customers...

Rebecca Bellan Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota’s innovation-focused subsidiary Woven Planet, has announced an investment into Silicon Valley-based autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/woven-capital-kicks-off-portfolio-with-investment-in-autonomous-delivery-company-nuro/

Mary Ann Azevedo Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/hub-a-productivity-platform-for-technical-sales-professionals-launches-with-1m-in-funding/

Ron Miller When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017, it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise...

Anthony Ha While new headless commerce platforms are emerging all the time, Swell CEO Eric Ingram told me that it remains “really hard to do something new...

Anthony Ha Benitago Group, a startup looking to build a big portfolio of Amazon brands, is announcing that it has raised $55 million in new...