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Negotiating cross-border investments: Insights from a seasoned investor
For LatAm startups, investments from foreign VCs can bring in experienced advisers and contributors who can help the company expand to new markets.
Bitcoin is on the move, Spotify cuts staff, and more money floods AI
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Up Catalyst draws €4M seed round to make battery graphite from carbon dioxide
Up Catalyst can tweak the basic process to also manufacture carbon nanotubes for paint or reinforced concrete, as well as graphite tailored to hydrogen fuel cells.
Strava gets in-app messaging to help you bypass WhatsApp
Strava is taking one big step closer to becoming a true social network, as the fitness-tracking platform introduces in-app messaging to let users send private one-to-one and group messages. The new m
ArmorCode raises $40M to consolidate security data in one place
ArmorCode, a cybersecurity platform that gathers vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure, consolidating the data into a single location and standardizing it for analysis, ha
The best kitchen gifts for techy chefs in 2023
The kitchen is a sacred place. Some chefs insist on keeping things low-tech — Christine’s favorite purchase of the year is a piece of plastic from QVC, and Haje thinks that the Internet of Thi
Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit
Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under Eur
TikTok expands its in-app Ticketmaster ticketing feature to users in 20 countries
TikTok and Ticketmaster are expanding their partnership into 20 new countries after initially launching it in the United States back in August 2022. The partnership allows users to discover events and
Doubtnut, once offered a $150M deal by Byju’s, sells for $10M
Allen Career Institute has acquired Doubtnut in a deal that values the young edtech at $10 million, according to a person familiar with the matter, a stunning reversal of fortune for the once fast-gro
Bending Spoons lays off entire staff of Filmic
Milan-based creative app studio Bending Spoons has laid off the entire staff of Filmic, which made popular video and photo editing apps such as Filmic Pro, per a report by PetaPixel. Bending Spoons ac
Spotify cuts 17% jobs amid rising capital costs
Spotify is eliminating about 1,500 jobs, or about 17% of its workforce, in its third round of layoffs this year as the music streaming giant looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
India’s MoveinSync eyes $50–60M in fresh funding
MoveinSync, an Indian startup offering mobility solutions to blue-chip companies for workplace commute, is engaging with investors to raise a growth round, according to people familiar with the delibe
More layoffs come for micromobility, Cruise cuts loom, and what the Cybertruck signals for Elon
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Gravel gets funding from NEA to support Indonesia’s booming construction industry
Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government. Sourcing skilled labor is still a t
VC Office Hours: Unlocking the Farmers’ Market with Black Farmer Fund
The fund is technically a nonprofit with a debt fund attached.
GM and Toyota are shaping up to be the biggest losers in the EV transition
Legacy automakers have scaled back or set overly modest electric vehicle production targets. They may come to regret that.
Fintechs go shopping
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The most important metrics for SaaS funding in 2024
Today we're focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers.
Tesla releases the Cybertruck, Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI, and Evernote cripples its free plan
Hi, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that highlights some of the more noteworthy moments in tech over the past few days. The holiday season is nigh upon us, but th
Shein a light
We won't be getting our hands on a Shein filing just yet, but we can’t wait to.