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Climate
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will speak at TC Sessions: Climate
8:00 am PDT • May 31, 2022
It’s hard to believe that, despite a scientific consensus and mountains of verified evidence, climate change has become a global political football. And yet here we are. All the innovative…
Hardware
Amazon is killing its Alexa-connected Cloud Cam, will replace customers’ dead devices with a Blink Mini
7:30 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Amazon is shutting down its smart home camera, the Cloud Cam, and its companion apps, the company informed customers via a recent email. Launched in 2017, the nearly five-year-old Cloud…
Faster ML models, crypto M&A and what’s ahead for on-demand pricing
7:06 AM PDT • May 31, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back…
Focusing on “Customer-centric founders redefining everyday experiences,” venture firm Hannah Grey told me it just closed its oversubscribed $51.6 million fund. The company’s thesis focuses on “studying macro-societal forcing functions…
Featured Article
TechCrunch Live is going to Columbus, OH — June 1st!
On June 1, 2022, the TechCrunch Live crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Register for the virtual event here for free! Why Columbus? Because it’s quickly becoming a major startup scene in the Midwest, especially in the areas of…
6:38 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Venture
Bonfire Ventures secures $230M for two new funds targeting B2B software startups
6:30 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Bonfire Ventures aims to help B2B software startups make it to Series A.
AI
Onramp Funds accelerates e-commerce financing platform with $42M in equity, credit
6:05 am PDT • May 31, 2022
The company provides working capital based on sales forecast data to resolve the shipping, fulfillment, advertising and inventory cost of goods for e-commerce sellers.
Enterprise
Railway snags $20M to streamline the process of deploying apps and services
6:00 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Railway, a startup building a software deployment platform tailored for engineers, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures and angel investors…
Vendia, a blockchain-based platform that makes it easier for businesses to share their code and data with partners across applications, platforms and clouds, today announced that it has raised a…
Enterprise
Seemplicity emerges from stealth with $32M to consolidate security notifications and speed up response times
4:59 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Cybersecurity continues to grow in complexity due to the ever-increasing threat landscape — more services in the cloud, more digital operations and more devices mean more attack surfaces and variations…
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Startups
New York-based Digital Asset to help Japan’s financial giant SBI develop ‘smart yen’
3:07 am PDT • May 31, 2022
SBI Holdings, a Japanese securities and banking giant that launched a crypto-asset fund for retail investors last year, has been actively investing in the infrastructure that will allow it to…
Google-backed DotPe, which helps businesses in India go online and sell digitally, is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, a source…
HitPay has almost everything SMEs need to run their businesses. In addition to being an online payment gateway, it also offers tools like point-of-sale software with card readers, plugins, payment…
Zinc heads toward new $41M tech-for-good fund to back pre-team talent solving big problems
4:01 pm PDT • May 30, 2022
So-called “tech for good” accelerators addressing such worthy sounding subjects as ESGs and SDGs have appeared in the last few years. Some observers have dismissed these efforts as scalable only…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. There is SO much news this week, so let’s dive in. In this issue: Astroforge’s asteroid mining ambitions, Boeing’s Starliner comes home, and…
Climate
Partner sessions at TC Sessions: Climate offer knowledge and insight
2:30 pm PDT • May 30, 2022
We’re just about two weeks away from our first foray into climate tech at TC Sessions: Climate & The Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals on June 14 in Berkeley,…
AI
Perceptron: Risky teleoperation, Rocket League simulation and zoologist multiplication
10:48 am PDT • May 30, 2022
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This…
Fintech
For remittances, crypto is still a problem looking for a solution
8:00 am PDT • May 30, 2022
Are remittance payments really ripe for crypto disruption? And can DeFi help what a16z’s state of crypto report calls the “huge part of the world [ … ] underserved by…
Startups
Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines
7:00 am PDT • May 30, 2022
Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. The…
Startups
SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
6:05 am PDT • May 30, 2022
Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330…
