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Startups
Soda monitors data and helps you fix issues before it’s too late
8:57 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Meet Soda, a data monitoring platform that is going to help you discover issues with your data processing setup. This way, you can react as quickly as possible and make…
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8:16 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Are you ready to do whatever it takes to move the needle and drive your startup forward? Then you’re ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. The leading tech conference focused on…
Biotech & Health
Starship Technologies CEO/CTO Ahti Heinla joins TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
8:00 am PDT • April 1, 2021
For obvious reasons, food delivery was among the categories that soared during a year of COVID-19 related lockdowns. The question remains how these changes will impact both grocery and restaurant…
Featured Article
Kaltura puts debut on hold. Is the tech IPO window closing?
The Exchange doubts many folks expected the IPO climate to get so chilly without warning. But we could be in for a quarter’s pause.
7:58 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Startups
Holler raises $36M to power ‘conversational media’ in your favorite apps
7:28 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Holler, described by founder and CEO Travis Montaque as “a conversational media company,” just announced that it’s raised $36 million in Series B funding. You may not know what conversational…
Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.’s competition watchdog. Facebook’s $400 million purchase of Giphy, announced last year, is now facing an in-depth probe…
Who’s ready for bootcamp? Today’s the day new founders get down to the business of, well, building a better business. TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook launches profile frames that help you encourage friends to get the COVID-19 vaccine
7:06 am PDT • April 1, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming more readily available to larger groups of the U.S. population, Facebook has teamed up with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and…
Startups
Kintent nabs $4M seed to automate compliance questionnaire process
7:03 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Every tech vendor has to pass security muster with customers, typically a tedious activity involving answering long questionnaires. Kintent, a new startup that wants to automate this process, announced a…
Enterprise
mmhmm introduces usage-based enterprise accounts and a beta for Windows
7:00 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Mmhmm, the software that allows folks to personalize their appearance on video chat, has today announced that it’s introducing usage-based enterprise accounts. In a conversation with TechCrunch, founder and CEO…
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Featured Article
Big box robots
So, let me preempt this by saying that there are plenty of robotics verticals worth getting excited about. But at the moment, everyone sure seems focused on warehouse fulfillment. It’s understandable, of course. Right now, it’s Amazon versus the world, and the retail giant certainly has a leg up on much of the world on…
6:30 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Media & Entertainment
Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps
6:08 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Thrasio, an early mover and leading player in the wave of startups emerging to consolidate and scale companies that sell their goods mainly via Amazon’s Marketplace, has raised some more…
Startups
Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year
5:44 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Next Insurance recently announced that it has raised a $250 million round, valuing the SMB-focused insurance provider at $4 billion. The company last raised another $250 million in September 2020,…
Meet Collabio Spaces: An office suite app with a cloudless co-authoring twist that looks helpful if you need to collaborate on documents without having to worry about losing control of…
Startups
Pair Eyewear raises $12M to bring more personality to your glasses
4:50 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Pair Eyewear has raised a $12 million Series A to help glasses-wearing kids and adults turn those glasses into what co-CEO Sophia Edelstein called “a form of self-expression.” After all,…
Startups
Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’
4:04 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app — which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents — has secured an $8…
Airtel Africa receives $100M for its mobile money business from Mastercard
1:58 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of telecom Airtel Africa. After closing the deal, the…
Media & Entertainment
Bilibili ups the ante in games with $123 million investment in TapTap
1:46 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Competition in China’s gaming industry is getting stiffer in recent times as tech giants sniff out potential buyouts and investments to beef up their gaming alliance, whether it pertains to…
LINE completed its merger with Yahoo! Japan-owner Z Holdings last month, and now the two firm’s venture capital arms have also combined. Z Holdings announced today that its subsidiary, YJ…
Startups
How SOSV-backed Achiko pivoted from financial services to health tech during the COVID-19 pandemic
12:34 am PDT • April 1, 2021
Many companies had to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. For SOSV-backed Achiko, this meant shifting its focus from mobile payment services to affordable COVID-19 screening. Achiko’s platform combines an app…
