TikTok’s new Creator Marketplace API lets influencer marketing companies tap into first-party data
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TikTok is making it easier for brands and agencies to work with the influencers using its service. The company is rolling out a new “TikTok Creator Marketplace API,” which allows marketing companies to integrate more directly with TikTok’s C
Compounds Foods brews up $4.5M to make coffee without beans
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Compound Foods uses synthetic biology to create coffee without coffee beans by extracting molecules.Osana Salud raises $20M to build API-connected infrastructure for the LatAm healthcare industry
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Osana Salud, which aims to transform the healthcare infrastructure in Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding led by General Catalyst. The Argentina-based, yet fully remote, startup was founded in 2019 — just a few months beInside Freshworks’ IPO filing
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Let's dig into the company's historical growth, track Freshworks' changing profitability profile and check to see if its revenue quality is improving over time.Pandemic-driven liquid oxygen shortage threatens ULA, SpaceX launches
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The ongoing reverberations from the COVID-19 pandemic are continuing to make themselves felt in the most unlikely of places: spaceflight. On Friday, NASA took the unexpected step to ground a September satellite launch due to pandemic-related shortages of liquDatabricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR
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The company views its market as a new technology category. Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and data warehouse.Borzo, a delivery startup which focuses on emerging economies, raises $35M
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If you’re in India, the Philippines, Russia, or Vietnam, Amazon Prime and Gorillas are probably not that much use to you. Comparable to DoorDash Drive or Lalamove (Malaysia), Dostavista is a “crowdsourced” same-day delivery service. Founded in Russia, tFlipboard rolls out newsfeed personalization tools to save you from doomscrolling
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Facebook is preparing to adjust its News Feed to de-emphasize political posts and current events, but news reader Flipboard is instead rolling out an update that puts users in control of their own feeds. The company announced this morning the launch of a newEV charging solutions will become an asset, not a liability, to the grid
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Although wireless charging is still relatively new to the market, the benefits are beginning to become glaringly self-evident.Fundraising for your startup? We’ve got you covered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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Fundraising is a huge part of building a successful startup, and whether you’re looking for information about the latest trends, alternative funding or how to fine-tune your pitch to attract investors, you’ll find that and a whole lot more at TechCrunch DBose’s QuietComfort 45 arrive September 23 for $330
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Following a spate of leaks, Bose this morning announced the latest addition to its well-loved over ear headphones. The QuietComfort 45 (which replace the 35 II) sport improved nose cancellation and 24 hours of battery on a charge, per Bose’s metrics. The aiRattle raises $2.8M from Lightspeed and Sequoia to modernize enterprise sales stack
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Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that don’t play well with one another. This is a problem since most employees at a mid-sized or large-sized firm spendSales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations
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Walnut's a no-code platform enables customers to create customized product demonstrations, integrate them into their sales and marketing processes and then generate insights from the demos.Quip’s new $100M round will usher in more than just clean teeth
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Quip is focused on growth, innovation and community building among its over 7.5 million customers in 100 countries.Windows 11 launches October 5
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Microsoft offered a broad “Holiday 2021” release date when it announced Windows 11, back in June. Of course, it didn’t specify precisely which holiday. Perhaps the company was aiming for World Teachers’ Day, a belated Sukkot or an extremely early HallOctane banks $2M for flexible billing software
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Octane, a metered SaaS billing system, helps vendors create a plan, monitor usage and charge in a similar way to Snowflake and AWS.NVIDIA’s latest tech makes AI voices more expressive and realistic
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The voices on Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and others still lack the rhythms and intonation that make speech human. NVIDIA has unveiled new tools that can capture those natural speech qualities.Hum Capital thinks the future of funding is a return to old school Wall Street
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Hum Capital CEO Blair Silverberg thinks that the future of fundraising requires a return to old school Wall Street – sans the fraud. Back in the day, he explained, people would go to Wall Street and request funding for different projects, such as a raiMinnesota twins raise $3M to increase accessibility to disability care
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Having a loved one with specialized care needs is incredibly challenging, but not something that people who have never had to deal with the issue would necessarily quite understand. For anyone who has had to help care for someone with special needs, the lackKevala raises $21M to improve tools for managing energy grid infrastructure
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Kevala, the startup that collects and analyzes energy grid infrastructure data for utility companies, renewable energy providers, EV charging companies, regulators and other energy industry stakeholders, has raised $21 million in a Series A round. The companPeak raises $75M for a platform that helps non-tech companies build AI applications
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As artificial intelligence continues to weave its way into more enterprise applications, a startup that has built a platform to help businesses, especially non-tech organizations, build more customized AI decision making tools for themselves has picked up somOffchain Labs raises $120 million to hide Ethereum’s shortcomings with its Arbitrum product
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As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping into the blaring scaling issues faced by decentralized apps on the Ethereum blockchain. The popular network has seeUS giants top tech industry’s $100M+ a year lobbying blitz in EU
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The scale of the tech industry’s spending to influence the European Union’s tech policy agenda has been laid out in a report published today by Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobbycontrol — which found hundreds of companies, groups and busSouth Korea passes ‘Anti-Google law’ bill to curb Google, Apple in-app payment commission
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After a number of delays, South Korea’s National Assembly today voted to approve the passage of its “Anti-Google law.” Nicknamed after the search giant but more wide-ranging, the law will prevent Google and Apple from forcing developers to use their in-Motional reveals its Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric robotaxi
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Motional revealed Tuesday the first images of its planned robotaxi, a Hyundai all-electric Ioniq 5 SUV that will be the centerpiece of a driverless ride-hailing service the company wants customers to be able to access starting in 2023 through the Lyft app. ThLoftyInc Capital launches third fund at $10M for a more diverse portfolio of African startups
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LoftyInc Capital, a pan-African VC firm, announced today that it is launching its third fund — LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund 3 — at $10 million for tech startups in Africa. The firm has reached the first close of $5.5 million. Some of the limited parProsus acquires Indian payments giant BillDesk for $4.7B, will merge with its PayU fintech group
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More major consolidation underway in the world of payments: Prosus — the Dutch tech giant that bundles together Naspers’ fintech, e-commerce and other international investments and businesses outside of South Africa — today announced that iDance launches its e-bike subscription service in Berlin
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German startup Dance is launching its subscription service in its hometown Berlin. For a flat monthly fee of €79 (around $93 at today’s exchange rate), users will get a custom-designed electric bike as well as access to an on-demand repair and maintenancThis Sequoia- and Henry Kravis-backed prediction market wants to turn opinions into money
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More than 15 years ago, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, which was acquired by Nasdaq in 2008, and another since-sold exchange called HedgeStreet, both announced they intended to offer something called event contracts to investors. The idea was to allow peoplSoutheast Asia “omnichannel” health startup Doctor Anywhere gets $88M SGD
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Doctor Anywhere, a startup that takes an “omnichannel” approach to healthcare, announced today it has raised $88 million SGD (about $65.7 million USD) in Series C funding. The round was led by Asia Partners, with participation from Novo Holdings, PhilipsCoral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan
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Coral Capital, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. Limited partners in theDaily Crunch: China sets three-hour weekly time limit for under-18 gamers
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Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.Rugged showcases its layout-printing construction robots
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Few robotics categories are poised to benefit more from the events of the past year than construction. It’s a booming field that could benefit massively from automaton, a fact that’s only been amplified as the pandemic brought many nonessential businesseNew Zealand-based student well-being platform Komodo raises $1.8M NZD
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Adolescence is a turbulent period and its challenges are being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in the best of times, teens dealing with personal and school problems might have trouble talking about them. New Zealand-based startup Komodo is a studenSquare to launch a new paid subscription, Invoices Plus
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Square’s popular free invoicing software is becoming the company’s next big subscription service. The company is poised to announced a paid subscription offering called Invoices Plus, which will offer sellers a set of advanced features, includingNew Zealand-based student wellbeing platform Komodo raises $1.8M NZD
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Adolescence is a turbulent period and its challenges are being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in the best of times, teens dealing with personal and school problems might have trouble talking about them. New Zealand-based startup Komodo is a studenForeign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem
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There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 billion in just the first half of 2021, almost double the amount in all of 2020.
