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Daily Crunch: Google will use private subsea cable to launch its first full-scale cloud region in Africa
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7 investors discuss how agtech can solve agriculture’s biggest problems
Climate change and geopolitical instability are wreaking havoc on agriculture, so we surveyed seven investors to learn what they’re looking at.
Daily Crunch: Blocking VLC player downloads violates Indian law, claims VideoLAN in legal challenge
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Why a Memphis VC is betting $52M on startups selling to complex orgs
Ridgeline is a new VC firm that invests in B2B companies with a specific goal in mind: helping its portfolio companies sell to complex organizations that are hard to crack,…
In 2019 this VC decided to invest in diverse founders. Three years later it’s already starting a second fund
It feels like an eon has passed since the launch in 2019 of Ada Ventures, a European VC that decided to invest in normally under-represented groups and sectors, like women…
Daily Crunch: Vice Society hackers post 500GB of data stolen from LA school district to dark web
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If unicorns are not able to raise as much this year as they did in, say, 2019, how many of the billion-dollar-plus startups are going to survive?
It’s unclear what will happen in VC in Q4, but it definitely won’t be boring
After six months of a market slowdown, venture is seeing deals pick up and eye-popping acquisitions. What does it all mean for Q4?
Daily Crunch: It’s AI day for Tesla, but we’re here for the cringey texts
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After a series of misfires in Q3, here’s what we expect for startups in Q4
Join us for a jolly jaunt through our list of events that we failed to predict in Q3, and what we expect to happen in Q4 2022.
Daily Crunch: Google to sunset Stadia in January 2023, will refund hardware purchases
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Despite its many troubles, the insurtech market is ‘far from dead,’ investors say
The insurtech market has had a rough time this past year, so we reached out to eight investors to find out where insurtech is headed in Q4.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Rokoko’s $3M strategic extension deck
For this week’s pitch deck teardown, I’ve got something slightly unusual: Rokoko’s $3 million strategic extension deck that valued the company at $80 million.
Daily Crunch: Fast Company hacker sends 2 ‘obscene and racist’ notifications to Apple News users
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This year, we’re told, profit is in and growth is out. And yet there’s some indication that growth expectations may be higher than ever. Let’s attempt to square the circle.
Scale Venture Partners closes $900M for fund to back software startups
The firm says cognitive applications are “the next generation of software companies,” and many of the investments will go into startups focused on that.
Daily Crunch: NASA sings ‘I don’t want to miss a thing’ as DART spacecraft strikes asteroid
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Daily Crunch: Cloudflare rolls out new mobile services to secure employees’ smartphones
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The pandemic boost to productivity-themed startups is at least partially over. Venture investors may be hunting up something new.
Daily Crunch: London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A
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How a pivot helped HopSkipDrive emerge successful in a sector where many failed
Joanna McFarland got the idea for HopSkipDrive in 2014 because she needed a solution to a problem that many working parents like herself face: How do you consistently get your…
Despite all current and high-profile pressures, it is our view that the technology and innovation supercycle narrative remains unchanged.
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Declining VC investment into LatAm startups could throttle digital growth
The decline in venture capital into Latin American startups may not prove lethal. However, it may slow the pace at which LatAm economies digitize.
Daily Crunch: A closer look at Google’s remote-controlled $30 Chromecast
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Q1 performance data shows maturing VC fund vintages aren’t doomed
New data shows that venture performance was down in the first quarter but not nearly as much as the stock market.
Berlin’s Visionaries Club VC boosts its funds with €400M worth of fresh capital for B2B investments
It was back in 2019 that we reported on Visionaries Club, a new, Berlin-based, European VC focusing on B2B, founded by Sebastian Pollok and Robert Lacher. At the time, Visionaries…
Daily Crunch: Moonlighters eclipsed — Wipro lets go of 300 employees who were working for its rivals
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Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign
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We’re gearing up for a wave of venture capital data that will start to drop in less than two weeks’ time. Here’s what we want to determine when we get…
Sardine raises $51.5M led by a16z to sniff out fishy fintech transactions
As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which…
