Tag: TechCrunch

(Innovation/Technology) India’s CRED in talks to raise $200 million at $2 billion valuation (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Bangalore’s fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/india-cred-in-talks-to-raise-200-million-at-2-billion-valuation/

(Innovation/Technology) With 1v1Me, anyone can gamble on their ability to crush an opponent in player vs. player games (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Anthony Geranio has played video games for the past thirteen years. The 26 year-old first time founder of 1v1Me, a new company that lets...

(Innovation/Technology) Zeller, a fintech founded by Square alumni, raises $25M AUD Series A led by Lee Fixel’s Addition (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Zeller, a payment and financial services startup founded by former Square executives, quietly raised a $25 million AUD (about $19.4 million USD) Series...

(Innovation/Technology) Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt receives a $14 billion order from VW (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer which raised $1 billion in financing from investors led by Goldman Sachs and Volkswagen back in 2019, has signed...

(Innovation/Technology) Curran Biotech’s new nanocoating could prevent indoor transmission of COVID-19 (TechCrunch)

Sophie Burkholder A new nanocoating from Curran Biotech could dramatically improve air filtration to prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/curran-biotechs-new-nanocoating-could-prevent-indoor-transmission-of-covid-19/

(Innovation/Technology) DeepSee.ai raises $22.6M Series A for its AI-centric process automation platform (TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois DeepSee.ai, a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 million Series A...

(Innovation/Technology) ElevateBio raises $525M to advance its cell and gene therapy technologies (TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington ElevateBio, one of the leading biotech companies focused on gene-based therapies has raised a massive $525 million Series C round of financing, more...

(Innovation/Technology) WeWork unbundles its products in an attempt to make itself over, but will the strategy work? (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo For years, there was a debate as to whether WeWork was a tech company or more of a real estate play. At...

(Innovation/Technology) Facebook to label all COVID-19 vaccine posts with pointer to official info (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas Facebook will soon label all posts discussing the coronavirus vaccination with a pointer to official information about COVID-19, it said today. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/facebook-to-label-all-covid-19-vaccine-posts-with-pointer-to-official-info/

(Innovation/Technology) Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden On the heels of reports that Stripe was raising yet more money, the payments giant has now confirmed the details. The company has closed in...

(Innovation/Technology) SpaceX flies Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record 9th time, delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks (TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington SpaceX has delivered another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit — meaning it has sent 180 in total to join its 1,000+ strong constellation...

(Innovation/Technology) Assembled, an operating system for support teams, raises $16.6M (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden From the point of view of a consumer, customer service sometimes feels like a monolith, but behind the scenes it can be a...

(Innovation/Technology) How ByteDance plans to crack the gaming industry (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao For the last few years, ByteDance, the parent company of short video app TikTok, has been working to diversify its revenue streams beyond...

(Innovation/Technology) Luminar, Volvo subsidiary partner to sell automated driving systems to automakers (TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec Luminar Technologies has deepened ties with Volvo Cars to develop and eventually sell an automated driving system for highways to other automakers. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/luminar-volvo-subsidiary-partner-to-sell-automated-driving-systems-to-automakers/

(Innovation/Technology) Legl gets $7M to help law firms upgrade to digital workflows (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas B2B SaaS startup Legl has bagged $7M in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures for its platform for law firms which offers tools to...

(Innovation/Technology) GM partners with startup SolidEnergy Systems to pack more energy in its batteries (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan GM’s venture arm invested in battery startup SolidEnergy Systems five years ago. Now, GM is tapping the MIT spinout to help it pack...