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Revery gets $2M to improve mental health with mobile gaming techniques - In “Macbeth,” Shakespeare described sleep as the “chief nourisher in life’s feast.... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gVugRShe5iY/ #fundings&exits #mentalhealth #mobilegaming #reverylabs #mobile #revery #sleep #tc

The Zoom-Five9 deal is a big bet for the video conferencing company - Zoom, a well-known video conferencing company, will buy Five9, a company that sell... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ge86h7r1yjA/ #eccloudandenterpriseinfrastructure #videoconferencing #fundings&exits #five9 #zoom

Equity Monday: Zoom buys Five9 as Robinhood sets IPO price range - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast wh... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Bu-U1BCHFV8/ #fundings&exits #cryptocurrency #equitypodcast #publicmarket #robinhoodipo #globalbees #robinhood #startups #lenskart #carlyle #nigeria #crypto #equity #chaka #five9 #india #liveu #zoom

Zoom buys cloud call center firm Five9 for $14.7 billion - Zoom is taking advantage of the impressive rise in its stock price in the past yea... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dxAl4DMDXl0/ #fundings&exits #enterprise #five9 #zoom #tc

Orum raises $52M to help speed up intrabank transfers - Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/XHj1k8tQ87E/ #financialinfrastructure #artificialintelligence #baincapitalventures #financialservices #siliconvalleybank #inspiredcapital #machinelearning #fundings&exits #venturecapital #canapiventures #jeffreyreitman #recentfunding #alexavontobel #jpmorganchase #payments #startups #finance #funding

On a growth tear, DuckDuckGo reveals it picked up $100M in secondary investment last year - Privacy tech continues cooking on gas. To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuck... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1IsLRQgY3t4/ #impactamericafund #freadakaporklein #fundings&exits #tim-bernerslee #omersventures #onlineprivacy #searchengine #gpbullhound #brianacton #duckduckgo #mitchkapor #whatsapp #privacy #android #europe #google

Why sports tech is bigger than a game - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, w... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/aebOgmulCbM/ #sportstechnology #fundings&exits #equitypodcast #sportsmedia #blaseball #startups #dream11 #equity

Belvo, LatAm’s answer to Plaid, raises $43M to scale its API for financial services - Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, anno... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/APomhjSDVEU/ #onlinefoodordering #financialservices #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #foundersfund #kiboventures #latinamerica #alexwilhelm #openbanking #openfinance #ycombinator #davidvelez #mexicocity #technology #argentina #barcelona #startups #colombia #tc

Wayflyer raises $76M to provide ‘revenue-based’ financing to e-commerce merchants - Wayflyer, a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0X8tgEiyq1Y/ #guillaumepousaz #leftlanecapital #fundings&exits #kleinerperkins #recentfunding #unitedkingdom #checkout.com #distribution #qedinvestors #underwriting #unitedstates #netherlands #e-commerce #ecommerce #australia #dstglobal #startups #merchant #wayflyer #finance

More funding flows into Pipe, as buzzy fintech raises $250M at a $2B valuation - At the end of March, TechCrunch reported that buzzy startup Pipe — which aims to b... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/u7DOz_4cqYE/ #crediteasefintechinvestmentfund #greenspringassociates #chamathpalihapitiya #financialtechnology #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #alexisohanian #sbiinvestment #socialcapital #macventures #marcbenioff #raptorgroup #baltimore #startups #maryland

Amount raises $99M at a $1B+ valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs - Amount, a company that provides technology to banks and financial institutions, ha... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xuMTsdwTEDo/ #financialinfrastructure #financialtechnology #enterprisesoftware #financialservices #fundings&exits #venturecapital #hanacoventures #recentfunding #retailbanking #goldmansachs #laurencetosi #marketleader #unitedstates #blackstone #e-commerce #invusgroup #finance

Stripe acquires Bouncer, will integrate its card authentication into the Radar fraud detection tool - On the heels of a $600 million fundraise earlier this year, payments giant Stripe ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7yyZXqTh-Bk/ #self-drivingcars #fundings&exits #ecommerce #payments #security #bouncer #stripe #fraud #ma

With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises $250M at a $2.2B valuation - Bitso, a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5spQ2moSdRM/ #financialinfrastructure #financialtechnology #valorcapitalgroup #decentralization #cryptocurrency #fundings&exits #venturecapital #panteracapital #scott shleifer #recentfunding #cryptoeconomy #latinamerica #qedinvestors #unitedstates #tigerglobal #tc

StudySmarter books $15M for a global ‘personalized learning’ push - More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter, which makes digital too... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U1WTJCZbNuM/ #opticalcharacterrecognition #naturallanguageprocessing #artificialintelligence #larsfjeldsoe-nielsen #holtzbrinckventures #baldertoncapital #leftlanecapital #fundings&exits #unitedkingdom #studysmarter #owlventures #education #duolingo #learning #netflix #newyork #quizlet #apps

Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M - The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vMcUBqQouO4/ #artificialintelligence #blockchainnetwork #partnersforgrowth #siliconvalleybank #svbfinancialgroup #fundings&exits #venturecapital #onlinepayments #onlineproducts #paymentnetwork #recentfunding #latinamerica #qedinvestors #tribalcredit #becocapital #bank

Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation - Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9697MLZFR3w/ #greenspringassociates #chamathpalihapitiya #telecommunications #paymentprocessing #streamingservices #corporatefinance #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #alexisohanian #craftventures #socialcapital #joelonsdale #marcbenioff #tc

Celebrity video platform Memmo raises $10M - Memmo.me, a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4QSKrVtKPrY/ #leftlanecapital #fundings&exits #startups #memmo.me #funding #apps

Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial - This morning, investor and SPAC raconteur Chamath Palihapitiya announced two new blank-check deals i... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-3tOvpNf2CU/ #chamathpalihapitiya #fundings&exits #theexchange #startups #eccolumn #finance #latch #saas #spac #tc

Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020 - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), w... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/KwziR4RS1iY/ #fundings&exits #equitypodcast #sarahkunst #startups #garrytan #tc

Reface grabs $5.5M seed led by A16z to stoke its viral face-swap video app - Buzzy face-swap video app Reface, which lends users celebrity ‘superpowers’ by turning their selfies... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hn84pDrxAug/ #artificialintelligence #andreessenhorowitz #synthesizedmedia #machinelearning #fundings&exits #socialapps #deepfakes #social #reface #apps #tc

Salut raises $1.25M for its virtual fitness service - This morning Salut, an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, ann... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DtUTtxkBHNs/ #precursorventures #fundings&exits #charleshudson #startups #peloton #apps

The race to be China’s top fintech platform: Ant vs Tencent - As Ant Group seizes the world’s attention with its record initial public offering, which was abrupt... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ntjBzePDwZQ/ #initialpublicoffering #fundings&exits #antfinancial #antgroup #finance #alibaba #tencent #wechat #china #asia #tc

China postpones Ant’s colossal IPO after closed-door talk with Jack Ma - The Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges announced postponing Ant Group’s colossal initial public ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bIYWfUSReFw/ #fundings&exits #antfinancial #government #antgroup #alibaba #fintech #jackma #china #asia #ant #ipo #tc

Funding for female founders falls to 2017 levels as pandemic shakes up the VC market - So much for progress.
New data out this week from PitchBook indicates that the number of rounds rais... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-97mfaD4FYk/ #entrepreneurship #fundings&exits #charleshudson #theexchange #diversity #pitchbook #startups #tc

Lanturn, a Singaporean tech-enabled corporate services provider, raises $3 million seed round - Running a small- to medium-sized business means a small staff needs to juggle a plethora of tasks, l... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6A0CI8qAClM/ #corporateservices #fundings&exits #southeastasia #enterprise #singapore #startups #lanturn #asia #tc

A quick peek into Opendoor’s financial results - As investing whirlwind Chamath Palihapitiya continues to make headlines with his full-court press to... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/M_iObNxW0U4/ #chamathpalihapitiya #fundings&exits #startups #opendoor #spac #tc

Sequoia strikes gold with Unity’s IPO filing - A big payday is on the way for Sequoia and its partners, assuming they beat the final boss.
Today af... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Es0XJ-EZ8oA/ #silverlakepartners #unity-technologies #fundings&exits #finance #sequoia #gaming

Unicorn rodeo: 6 high-flying startups that are set to go public - This week Airbnb announced that it has privately filed to go public, putting the famous unicorn on ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3-2pXy1Faaw/ #snowflakecomputing #fundings&exits #antfinancial #theexchange #qualtrics #robinhood #startups #intercom #palantir #thredup #airbnb #egnyte #uipath #asana #on24 #ipo #tc

Direct-to-consumer cat food startup Smalls raises $9M - While dog owners have plenty of direct-to-consumer options if they want to order pet food online, we... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sk7dqROKIxY/ #leftlanecapital #fundings&exits #ecommerce #startups #funding

Effx raises $3.9M for its DevOps monitoring platform - Effx, a startup that aims to give developers better insights into their microservice architectures, ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZXQ_oKHRAiI/ #cloudinfrastructure #entrepreneurship #fundings&exits #cowboyventures #kleinerperkins #recentfunding #entrepreneur #worldwideweb #rubyonrails #flipboard #rackspace #startups #economy #kleiner #airbnb #effx #tc

RealityEngines.AI becomes Abacus.AI and raises $13M Series A - RealityEngines.AI, the machine learning startup co-founded by former AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jM4RGcwvPnk/ #artificialintelligence #realityengines.ai #machinelearning #fundings&exits #recentfunding #indexventures #deeplearning #mariamnaficy #ericschmidt #bindureddy #ramshriram #abacus.ai #jerryyang #mikevolpi #startups #funding #economy

A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech company in the world - Over the past few months, COVID-19 has brought much of the fundraising community to a standstill. Ho... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BcYNfoBqAYg/ #silverlakepartners #fundings&exits #venturecapital #privateequity #mukeshambani #extracrunch #reliancejio #facebook #finance #funding #telecom #india #asia #kkr

As COVID-19 pummels global economy, 8 new companies join the $100M ARR club - Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FSz6llzcPlM/ #artificialintelligence #professionalservices #vistaequitypartners #fundings&exits #venturecapital #digitalocean #worldwideweb #tripactions #lucidpress #techcrunch #computing #executive #qualtrics #startups #headspin #podium #uipath #wrike #utah

Where top VCs are investing in D2C - If you’re looking for toothbrushes, skin-care face masks, mattresses, glasses or even socks, there’s... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/UiB1X5_Oifg/ #lightspeedventurepartners #initializedcapital #betaworksventures #directtoconsumer #fundings&exits #venturecapital #accelpartners #alexisohanian #lererhippeau #extracrunch #fundraising #kickstarter #ecommerce #d2cbrands #northzone #startups #benlerer #facebook #glossier #d2c

Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app - You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take ov... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/a7mhABrSoEI/ #initializedcapital #facebookchatheads #fundings&exits #recentfunding #credoventures #navalravikant #videocalling #enterprise #ryanhoover #chatheads #floodgate #tommyleep #videochat #startups #garrytan #funding #social #around #video #apps #loom #zoom #tc

End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M - End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and h... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/h1Hzhleah-M/ #endgameinteractive #fundings&exits #recentfunding #makersfund #supercell #startups #funding #gaming #mobile

Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 2 of 2) - In part two of a survey that asks top VCs about exciting opportunities in open source and dev tools,... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AJJn39nn42k/ #lightspeedventurepartners #bessemerventurepartners #newenterpriseassociates #insightventurepartners #baincapitalventures #sapphireventures #fundings&exits #venturecapital #developertools #salildeshpande #ethankurzweil #enterprise #opensource #startups

Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money selling mattresses - E-commerce phenom and D2C bright light Casper has filed to go public.
The New York-based company tha... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/h4LJobnFJqw/ #newenterpriseassociates #fundings&exits #lererhippeau #caspersleep #startups #newyork #casper #sales #tc

Lucky coffee, unicorn stumbles, and Sam Altman’s YC wager - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1cXwmVxlUMo/ #artificialintelligence #corporatefinance #entrepreneurship #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #privateequity #softbankgroup #alexwilhelm #techcrunch #visionfund #samaltman #zumepizza #podcasts #robotics #startups #business #softbank #finance #exit

Union Square Ventures leads legal tech startup Juro’s $5M Series A - Juro, a UK startup that’s using machine learning tech and user-centric design to do for contracts wh... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bAZqUDZwndA/ #artificialintelligence #unionsquareventures #contractmanagement #pointninecapital #machinelearning #fundings&exits #startupcompany #taavethinrikus #recentfunding #unitedkingdom #legaltech #startups #contract #newyork #seriesa #europe #london #juro

Tribe leads $12M Series A into Teampay to make managing employee expenses painless - The modern office worker is heavily engaged with expenses. From buying SaaS products and purchasing ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5RLTYywcbk8/ #crosscutventures #fundings&exits #charleshudson #tribecapital #jonathanhsu #startups #finance #funding #teampay

Grab raises more money — again - Southeast Asia’s highest-capitalized startup is sitting on even more money from investors today afte... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U4dbake7_GQ/ #softbankvisionfund #fundings&exits #softbankgroup #southeastasia #warburgpincus #antfinancial #booking.com #philippines #carsharing #companies #indonesia #microsoft #singapore #transport #softbank #thailand #funding #invesco #seriesa #seriesh #tencent #vietnam #go-jek #google #paypal

Warburg Pincus announces new $4.25 billion fund for China and Southeast Asia - Warburg Pincus, the private equity fund with over $60 billion under management, is doubling down on... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nXiYW5xn7Rs/ #telecommunications #financialservices #fundings&exits #venturecapital #privateequity #southeastasia #warburgpincus #alibabagroup #antfinancial #unitedstates #healthcare #realestate #ztoexpress #indonesia #finance #funding #alibaba #economy #china

Splyt wants to connect the world’s ride-hailing apps for easy international roaming - The vision of a universal global ride-hailing service is over. Uber’s decision to exit markets like... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Gckqqzvlh5A/ #collaborativeconsumption #fundings&exits #southeastasia #antfinancial #automotive #carsharing #middleeast #singapore #transport #funding #alibaba #alipay #careem #russia #china #asia #didi #grab #uber #ceo #tc

Where top VCs are investing in media, entertainment & gaming - Most of the strategy discussions and news coverage in the media & entertainment industry is conc... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YMAVkWSAz-4/ #lightspeedventurepartners #lererhippeauventures #precursorventures #interactivemedia #fundings&exits #venturecapital #virtualreality #electronicarts #sequoiacapital #entertainment #charleshudson #luminarymedia #foundersfund #scooterbraun #sweetcapital #startups

Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord - Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-GZ2gT7N9ZI/ #initializedcapital #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #realestate #2ndaddress #ecommerce #personnel #startups #garrytan #finance #funding #airbnb #sonder #apps #zeus #tc