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Venture
Outsized seed rounds, neobanks and spicy M&A? Well hello, 2023
7:00 AM PST • February 17, 2023
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary…
Featured Article
Higher egg prices yield demand for alternatives
The avian flu, a shortage of cage-free eggs and a subsequent rise in prices in late 2022 seems to have provided an “in” for alternative egg companies to show they can compete.
6:02 am PST • February 17, 2023
Security
Atlassian and Envoy briefly blame each other for data breach
4:50 am PST • February 17, 2023
Australian software giant Atlassian and Envoy, a startup that provides workplace management services, were at loggerheads on Thursday over a data breach that exposed the data of thousands of Atlassian employees.…
Startups
5 product management tips that can help startups thrive in 2023
4:30 am PST • February 17, 2023
As companies cut costs to extend their runways, here’s how product managers can make the most of a tough situation.
Apps
Disney’s Hotstar suffers outage in an apparent domain renewal mess
1:40 am PST • February 17, 2023
Disney+ Hotstar is suffering an outage for some users in India in the middle of a popular cricket match, drawing flak from customers at a time when the Disney crown…
Transportation
Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A
1:16 am PST • February 17, 2023
Autonomous aircraft have long been thought of as having the most potential, though not in the realm of glitzy people-carrying drones so much as the more sedate world of cargo.…
Startups
Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups
12:58 am PST • February 17, 2023
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over…
Crypto
SEC charges Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon with defrauding investors
12:28 am PST • February 17, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the collapsed blockchain firm and stablecoin operator Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon with defrauding U.S. investors who purchased the digital…
Crypto
Binance-backed web3 gaming startup Unagi gets funding to expand fantasy sports platform
11:00 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 million ($5 million) seed round of funding, as the French startup prepares to expand its NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football (“soccer”)…
Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those…
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Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 16.4 on Thursday and while this update is designed for a small base of users, the iPhone-maker has given us a glimpse…
Feishu, ByteDance’s workplace collaboration app, surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue last year, Xie Xin, the chief executive of Feishu, told staff Thursday, according to a person familiar with…
Featured Article
The entire fintech industry is not in distress – here’s who is hiring
With so many fintechs laying off staff, it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. But that’s not the case. In fact, some companies are finding opportunity in the masses of layoffs. Rex Salisbury, founding partner of Cambrian Ventures and formerly on the fintech investment team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z),…
5:54 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Space
Singapore-based Transcelestial uses lasers to build affordable internet networks
4:00 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. Today,…
Featured Article
Toyota Research Institute’s robots leave home
“I think I’m probably just as guilty as everybody else,” Toyota Research Institute’s (TRI) senior vice president of robotics, Max Bajracharya, admits. “It’s like, now our GPUs are better. Oh, we got machine learning and now you know we can do this. Oh, okay, maybe that was harder than we thought.” Ambition is, of course,…
3:36 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Climate
Pass the grass: How Plantd aims to decarbonize new buildings
3:07 pm PST • February 16, 2023
No matter how you slice it, buildings are serious climate change drivers. Every component of the so-called built environment — from off-site materials production and construction to electricity and maintenance…
Startups
Daily Crunch: Dash board temporarily suspends CEO as company investigates financial impropriety
3:05 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Media & Entertainment
Apple TV+ unveils trailer and release date for ‘Tetris’ movie
1:46 pm PST • February 16, 2023
Apple TV+ released the first trailer for its — shall we say, block-busting — movie “Tetris,” based on the origin story of the popular puzzle video game. The movie will…
Climate
Tesla opening its Superchargers to all EVs might be a masterstroke — or a terrible mistake
1:30 pm PST • February 16, 2023
If Tesla follows through, it could usher in a sea change in EV charging infrastructure in the U.S.
Apps
TikTok adds dedicated video feeds for sports, fashion, gaming and food
1:28 pm PST • February 16, 2023
TikTok has quietly added new topic feeds to its homepage alongside its current “Following” and “For You” feeds. Some users are now seeing new video feeds dedicated to “Sports,” “Fashion,”…
