Tag: TechCrunch

(Innovation/Technology) Better Health raises $3.5M seed round to reinvent medical supply shopping through e-commerce (TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington The home medical supply market in the U.S. is significant and growing, but the way that Americans go about getting much-needed medical supplies,...

(Innovation/Technology) Argentina’s Digital House raises over $50M to help solve LatAm’s tech talent shortage (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Digital House, a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than...

(Innovation/Technology) Acquisition-happy space infrastructure company Redwire set to go public via SPAC (TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington The latest in a string of space tech SPACs announced this year is Redwire, an entity created by a PE firm in 2020,...

(Innovation/Technology) Indian edtech giant Byju’s in talks to raise over $600 million at $15 billion valuation (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which raised over a billion dollars last year as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of online learning services in...

(Innovation/Technology) Closing on $103M, MaC VC is changing the face of venture capital (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber The partners at MaC Venture Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent...

(Innovation/Technology) Ribbon wants to make it easier for product teams to interview users (TechCrunch)

Steve O'Hear Everybody says they want to build user-centric companies and products, but how exactly is that achieved? Talking and listening to users, of course — a...

(Innovation/Technology) Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment (TechCrunch)

Steve O'Hear Meniga, the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/25/digital-banking-solutions-provider-meniga-closes-additional-e10m-investment/

(Innovation/Technology) As more artists and musicians turn their attention to NFTs, so, likely, do money launderers (TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos Outlets that follow the crypto industry have been observing a trend, which is that according to Google search data, the rise in interest in non-fungible tokens,...

(Innovation/Technology) Hong Kong-based viAct raises $2M for its automated construction monitoring platform (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/24/hong-kong-based-viact-raises-2m-for-its-automated-construction-monitoring-platform/

(Innovation/Technology) TuSimple’s IPO filing reveals roadblocks for self-driving startups with Chinese ties (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao While the governments of the United States and China are pushing policies for technological decoupling, private tech firms continue to tap resources from...

(Innovation/Technology) UI-licious gets $1.5M led by Monk’s Hill Ventures to simplify automated UI testing for web apps (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu UI-licious, a Singapore-based startup that simplifies automated user interface testing for web applications, announced today it has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A...

(Innovation/Technology) H&M removed from Chinese apps over Xinjiang cotton boycott (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao H&M has been removed by major e-commerce and service apps in China after a Communist Party organization barraged it for a statement expressing...

(Innovation/Technology) Ketch raises $23M to automate privacy and data compliance (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Ketch, a startup aiming to help businesses navigate the increasingly complex world of online privacy regulation and data compliance, is announcing that it...

(Innovation/Technology) Crypto wallet and exchange company Blockchain.com raises $300 million at $5.2 billion valuation (TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/24/crypto-wallet-and-exchange-company-blockchain-com-raises-300-million-at-5-2-billion-valuation/

(Innovation/Technology) Bevy raises $40M Series C with 20% coming from Black investors (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller You might expect that a startup that makes community building software would be thriving during a pandemic when it’s so difficult for us...

(Innovation/Technology) Google isn’t testing FLoCs in Europe yet (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas Early this month Google quietly began trials of ‘Privacy Sandbox’: Its planned replacement adtech for tracking cookies, as it works toward phasing out support for...