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Yat founder Naveen Jain talks ’emoji identity’ and lasting web3 trends

As the crypto market continues to struggle, plenty of founders and investors are left wondering whether this latest bull run was all some grand fever dream or whether some of the trends of the past tw

Glorify, an ambitious app for Christians, just landed $40 million in Series A funding led by a16z

Religion-based apps, tools and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, h

Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech

Americans are rapidly becoming less religious, but now might be the perfect time for church tech to thrive.

Jesus, SaaS and digital tithing

There are more than 300,000 congregations in the U.S., and entrepreneurs are creating billion-dollar companies by building software to service them.

Next year in Jerusalem — but for now, Zoom

There will be plenty of jokes. “Why is tonight different from all other nights,” the first of The Four Questions, will almost certainly serve as a laugh line in all but the most serious Seders thi

YC-backed Giveaway is a peer-to-peer marketplace that uses virtual currency

YC-backed Giveaway lets folks give away their unused or unnecessary items in a marketplace. Unlike other buy and sell or donation platforms, Giveaway uses a virtual currency on the platform to reward

Justin Kan opens up (Part 2)

"I like to talk about things that I'm learning that I think are applicable to other people."

How ‘the Internet broke America’ with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz

When Elizabeth Warren took on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook earlier this week, it was a low moment for what New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz calls “techno-utopianism.” That the progressive, populis

Kenshō, ‘the antithesis of Goop,’ launches a research-based guide to natural medicine

Kenshō wants to become a holistic health "medical journal" with input from credible natural healthcare providers.

Silicon Valley’s inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Editor’s Note: Technology, startups, entrepreneurship, unicorns, S-1s. Silicon Valley has created an economic engine unlike any other in the world over the past few decades. That success has come wi

Sequoia India and Accel back on-demand scooter startup in $12.2M deal

Two of India’s most prominent VCs are backing a motorbike on-demand service after Sequoia India and Accel led a $12.2 million investment in Metro Bikes. Sequoia India and Accel were joined in th

Interfaith social network Pray.com raises $14M Series A to add new features to its mobile app

Pray.com, an interfaith social networking app for members of religious communities, has raised a $14 million Series A led by TPG Growth. Previous investors Science Inc. and Greylock Partners also retu

GoPro cuts 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its drone division

GoPro is in the process of laying off around 200-300 employees this week, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company. The hits to the company were largely concentrated in its aerial divi

Pray.com, a community-building app for faith organizations, raises $2M in seed funding

Pray.com, an interfaith mobile app that helps religious leaders keep in touch with their congregants, will grow its team after receiving $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Science Inc.,

Halal investment tool for Muslims lands a $5 million seed round

For religious Muslims looking to get started with investing, the options are limited. Average Muslim investors can’t afford the kind of nuanced advice that a high end financial advisor can provi

GoodLands partners with ESRI to launch the Catholic Geographic System

Religion and technology are not two phrases that often go hand in hand. Molly Burhans is looking to change that. Growing up Catholic in upstate New York, Burhans had the intention of becoming a nun.

When Robots Come To Pray

A developer colleague of mine recently went on and on about Google Photos. He knew my background in computational neuroscience and thought I would be interested in what Google was doing with deep lear

A first? Muslim woman refuses to submit to airport body scan, not allowed to board flight

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ukbodyscan.jpg" />It finally happened. A Muslim woman in Manchester refused to submit to a <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/body-sc

Is God too busy to read your Tweets? Apparently not.

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tgod.jpg" />Yup, you can now tweet God, as it were. There's a Twitter account,@thekotel, that takes your tweets, prints them out, then ta

Would you give up Facebook (or the iPhone) for Lent?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/facebooklent.jpg" />We're right in the middle of Lent, a time for certain followers of certain religious beliefs to give something up for
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