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To hear more about the strategies that are boosting Indian startups, we interviewed Ayush Srivastava, co-founder of growth marketing group Growth Folks (and a growth marketer at Zynga by day).

Building a growth community in India with Ayush Srivastava of Growth Folks

Way back in January 2020, Sonos sued Google over patent infringement. Today, the streaming speaker company scored an early victory with the U.S. International Trade Commission. A preliminary ruling penned…

Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week. But while Twitter framed these updates as making the platform…

Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say

Carta, the nine-year-old, San Francisco-based cap table management and valuation software company, just raised $500 million in its eighth round of funding, at a $7.4 billion valuation. That’s more than…

Carta says it just used its own product to establish a new — and far higher — valuation for itself

After all the leaks and teases, Lamborghini has finally announced its new hybrid-engine Countach. Thankfully, almost everything you need to know about the car is in its model designation: LPI…

Lamborghini’s Countach LPI 800-4 is an 802-horsepower hybrid supercar

Brand-building is no longer a one-hit game, but an exercise in repetition: It may take four or five times for a user to see your startup’s name or logo to…

Growth tactics that will jump-start your customer base

Employers are at a crucial crossroads when it comes to deciding where and how to let employers do their jobs. There are those who will adopt the work-from-anywhere model and…

More companies should shift to a work-from-home model

When Salesforce announced its new business video streaming service called Salesforce+ this week, everyone had a reaction. While not all of it was positive, some company watchers also wondered if…

There could be more to the Salesforce+ video streaming service than meets the eye

Kiddom, a platform that offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by states, announced today that it has raised a $35 million Series C round led by…

Kiddom grabs early revenue amid $35M Series C funding

Facebook has extended the option of using end-to-end encryption for Messenger voice calls and video calls. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) — a security feature that prevents third-parties from eavesdropping on calls…

Facebook is bringing end-to-end encryption to Messenger calls and Instagram DMs

Where we’ll be next

Audio out-of-home (AOOH) technology does not request the use of personal data to work effectively. Instead, it focuses on the in-store customer experience.

Audio out-of-home advertising is reinventing personalization

From Instagram’s Reels to Snapchat’s Spotlight, most social media platforms are looking toward the TikTok boom for inspiration. Now, even Reddit, a discussion-based forum, is making short-form video more pronounced…

Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS

Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Although that sounds like good news, the hard reality…

Employee talent predictor retrain.ai raised another $7M, adds Splunk as strategic investor

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What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?

Either the neoinsurance companies’ long-term models will come to fruition thanks to large cash balances providing runway to prove their point, or Wall Street is correct — they were always overvalued.

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What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?

The dollars keep flowing into Latin America. Today, Argentine personal finance management app Ualá announced it has raised $350 million in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of…

Argentine fintech Ualá lands $350M at a $2.45B valuation in SoftBank, Tencent-led round

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Our beloved Danny was back, joining Natasha and Alex and…

Don’t give your weed dealer all your data

The personal is political, and companies are made up of people, not products.

Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic)

Orchata’s mobile app enables consumers in Mexico to get groceries delivered in 15 minutes with no substitutes and at supermarket prices.

Orchata raises $4M, aims to build a ‘Gopuff for Latin America’

ThirdAI is building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for hardware like graphics processing units.

ThirdAI raises $6M to democratize AI to any hardware

Manish Maheshwari, the head of Twitter India, has taken a new role at the company and is relocating to the U.S., the latest in a series of developments for the…

Twitter India head moves to a different role