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Media & Entertainment
Apple spotted developing a ‘multiview’ feature for watching sports on Apple TV
7:19 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Earlier this month, YouTube TV launched a new “multiview” feature that allows viewers to watch up to four streams of sports content at once. Now it looks like Apple TV…
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is…
Featured Article
SVB collapse spared an already muted venture deal market
The past year has been tough for startups and investors, but at least Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall isn’t likely to make it materially tougher.
7:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Enterprise
Twilio Segment introduces new portable customer records with reverse ETL
6:51 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Gathering customer information in a CDP is about understanding your customers better and delivering more tailored experiences, but getting that information where it needs to be to make that happen…
Venture
Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund
6:30 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Gutter Capital closed on a $25 million fund, about $10 million over its initial fundraising goal, but the process took over a year to secure the commitments.
AI
UK to avoid fixed rules for AI – in favor of ‘context-specific guidance’
6:24 am PDT • March 29, 2023
The U.K. isn’t going to be setting hard rules for AI any time soon. Today, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published a white paper setting out the…
Apps
Kevin Costner’s location-based audio storytelling app Autio raises $5.9M
6:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Autio, a location-based audio entertainment app co-founded by actor Kevin Costner and formerly known as HearHere, has raised $5.9 million in a second seed round with new terms. The funding…
Enterprise
Google Cloud’s AlloyDB Omni lets you run its PostgreSQL-compatible database anywhere
6:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is Google Cloud’s fully managed cloud-based database service. And typically, that’s where the story ends with these born-in-the-cloud services. But Google Cloud is taking a somewhat unusual…
Apps
Meditation app Simple Habit sells to wellness marketplace Ingenio, pivots the company to Sleep Reset
6:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Y Combinator and Foundation Capital-backed meditation app Simple Habit has been acquired by Alpine Investors-backed wellness marketplace company Ingenio. Because of this deal, Simple Habit will rebrand itself to Sleep…
Startups
Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech
6:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Deep Render, a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group…
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Featured Article
Silence gets you nowhere in a data breach
An important lesson in how not to respond to a breach, courtesy of LastPass and Fortra.
6:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Startups
Jigso is building an AI assistant to surface the data employees need automatically
5:52 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Workers are being bombarded with data from a variety of sources. If the point is to make people more productive, as the volume increases, the more difficult it is to…
Security
Hackers used spyware made in Spain to target users in the UAE, Google says
5:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
In November 2022, Google revealed the existence of a then-unknown spyware vendor called Variston. Now, Google researchers say they have seen hackers use Variston’s tools in the United Arab Emirates.…
Media & Entertainment
Google’s new ad transparency center will keep track of a brand’s previous ads
5:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across all of the company’s platforms, including Search, Display and YouTube.…
Biotech & Health
Hear Oma Fertility and Root Ventures talk male IVF challenges on TechCrunch Live
5:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Building a company during the pandemic is hard; raising $71.5 million in the fertility sector is an impressive feat at any time. Today, Oma Fertility co-founder Kiran Joshi and Root…
The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices — driving businesses to try and rein in their use. It’s…
Featured Article
After chargeback fraud debacle, Union54 CEO says fintech in Africa ‘isn’t child’s play’
Nine months after Union54 encountered overwhelming chargeback fraud that made it shut down temporarily, its CEO shares some lessons.
4:52 am PDT • March 29, 2023
Payments remains one of the most fragmented of online services. Now a UK startup says it’s building a solution to finally fix it.
Enterprise
Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform
4:00 am PDT • March 29, 2023
With Spera, businesses get a single end-to-end tool that allows them to manage all aspects of identity security
Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves.
