Waymo Via is scaling up autonomous trucking operations in Texas, Arizona, California
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Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, is building a dedicated trucking hub in Dallas and partnering with Ryder for fleet management services in a two-pronged move to seriously scale up its autonomous trucking operations across Texas, Arizona and Californi
Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?
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I’m on an H-1B in the U.S. I’ve been looking at the EB-1A and EB-2 NIW. I’m not sure if I would qualify for an EB-1A, but since I was born in India, I face a longer wait for an EB-2 NIW. Any tips?One banks $40M to offer ‘all-in-one’ financial services to the middle class
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One, a startup that aims to bring “all-in-one banking” to the middle class, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. Progressive Investment Company (the insurance giant’s investment arm) led the round, which includeWebiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS
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Webiny, an early stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. Today, Webiny announRansomware recovery can be costly, and not just because of the ransom
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Ransomware is rarely out of the headlines. Just last week, IT consulting giant Accenture was hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, days after Taiwan-based laptop maker Gigabyte also fell victim to an apparent ransomware attack, leading the hackers to leak gigabCrypto world shows signs of being rather bullish
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Bitcoin maximalists aren't going to find much here that underscores their core thesis that every coin not mentioned in Satoshi's whitepaper is, in fact, a scam. Save your tweets, please.Spotify expands its radio DJ-like format, Music + Talk, to global creators
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Last fall, Spotify introduced a new format that combined spoken word commentary with music, allowing creators to reproduce the radio-like experience of listening to a DJ or music journalist who shared their perspective on the tracks they would then play. ToFloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home
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Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of people every year, and recovering them can take years — assuming recovery is possible at all. The U.S. government estimates that floods in recHoloride’s in-car VR gaming system leaves the track for the real world
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Holoride’s VR gaming system for passengers caught our attention a few years back at CES. The company is back, demoing two games and threw off the shackles of the track for the real world.Blumira raises $10.3M Series A to bring cloud-based SIEM to mid-market companies
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Blumira today announced it raised a $10.3 million Series A financing round. The Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity company says the capital will be used to expand its product offering, double its headcount to 80 employees, and grow its partnership program with manRapid Robotics raises another $36.7M
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Rapid Robotics announced a $12 million Series A all the way back in April 2021. Four months later, the Bay Area-based robotic manufacturing firm is back with a $36.7 million Series B, led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global. The round, which also features exiEnable bags $45M for B2B rebate management platform
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Its technology automates how distributors and manufacturers create, execute and track rebates.T-Mobile says at least 47M current and former customers affected by data breach
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T-Mobile has confirmed that millions of current and former customers had their information stolen in a data breach, following reports of a hack over the weekend. In a statement, T-Mobile, which has more than 100 million customers, said its preliminary analysiStacker raises $20M Series A to help business units build software without coding
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No code platforms have developed into a hot market, and Stacker, a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. Not only can you create a web application from a spreadsheet, you can pull data from a variety of sources to crApeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains
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Apeel developed a plant-based layer for the surface of fruits and vegetables, that is tasteless and odorless, and keeps moisture in, while letting oxygen out.Felicis Ventures grows along with its returns, gathering up $900 million across two new funds
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Fifteen years ago, Aydin Senkut, a former Google exec, was an outsider in venture circles that didn’t take seriously his ambitions to become a top VC. Now, his firm, Felicis Ventures, is announcing $900 million in capital commitments across two new fundMobileCoin closes on $66 million in equity in Series B round
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MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency business that counts founder Moxie Marlinspike of the encrypting messaging app Signal as its earliest technical advisor, has raised $66 million in Series B funding from a long list of investors, including Alameda Research, BerggruAPI platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise
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San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billiEvervault’s ‘encryption as a service’ is now open access
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Dublin-based Evervault, a developer-focused security startup which sells encryption vis API and is backed by a raft of big name investors including the likes of Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures, is coming out of closed beta today — announcinAmazon backs Indian wealth management service Smallcase in $40 million funding
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Amazon has entered the financial services and insurance markets of India in recent years. Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category. The American e-commerce giant has backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40 million SerieBrazil’s Kovi closes $104M Series B to make car ownership ‘more inclusive’ in LatAm
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We sometimes take for granted that most anyone who wishes to become say, an Uber driver, can do so. But that assumption is a narrow view considering there are many people who would love to earn income in that way but can’t because of lack of car ownershPakistan’s Airlift raises $85 million for its quick commerce startup, eyes international expansion
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A one-year-old startup that is attempting to build the railroads for e-commerce in Pakistan has just secured a mega round in a major boost to the South Asia nation’s nascent startup ecosystem. Airlift operates a quick commerce service in eight cities in PakRaRa Delivery gets $3.25M for its ambitious on-demand delivery plans in Indonesia
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RaRa Delivery’s ambitious goal is to offer same-day deliveries in Indonesia without burning cash like many on-demand logistics providers. The company announced today it has raised $3.25 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge programDaily Crunch: Salesforce rolls out initial post-acquisition Slack integrations
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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.Taking consumer subscription software to the great outdoors
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Fitness and the outdoor passion space is one of the most exciting CSS categories in a growing landscape that includes everything from family planning to entertainment and education.South Korean online secondhand marketplace Danggeun Market raises $162M at a $2.7B valuation
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Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced on 18 August it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 billion. (By the way, Danggeun means carrot in Korean.) This round funFortnite adds a new mode that’s basically Among Us
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Fortnite now boasts its own version of one of the pandemic’s hottest games. Fortnite-maker Epic just introduced into the game a new limited-time mode called Impostors; it follows the hit format that sent Among Us to Twitch’s front page — and ConYouTube upgrades search with chapter previews and better recommendations for translated videos
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YouTube announced two feature updates today to make it easier for people to find the content they’re looking for on the platform. This includes visual search features and easier discovery of foreign language videos that have captions in the user’Extra Crunch roundup: The Nuro EC-1, early-stage growth tactics, understanding Salesforce+
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«With these self driving cars, it's only a matter of time before a country song is written about a guy's truck leaving him.»Insider hacks to streamline your SOC 3 certification application
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If you’re a tech company offering anyone a service, somewhere in your future is a security assessment giving you the seal of approval to manage clients’ data and operate on your devices.Twitter asks users to flag COVID-19 and election misinformation
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Twitter introduced a new test feature Tuesday that allows users to report misinformation they run into on the platform, flagging it to the company as “misleading.” The test will roll out starting today to most users in the U.S., Australia and South KoreaApple’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies
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Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. The program now has its first 15 pFor British agency Ascendant, growth marketing is much more than a set of tactics
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British growth agency Ascendant says growth marketing is a process that startups need to put in place in their early days that will scale as their customer base and internal teams grow.What does Brazil’s new receivables regulation mean for fintechs?
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This the story of one regulator, the Brazilian Central Bank, and how it has taken center stage in creating a framework that will have far-reaching effects on merchants and fintechs in Brazil.IKEA will sell clean energy to Swedish homes
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IKEA won't just sell you smart lights — it'll soon sell you the electricity to power those lights, too. IKEA has revealed plans to sell clean energy to Swedish homes through a subscription service.Google’s Pixel 5a with 5G adds water resistance, a bigger battery and a headphone jack
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It’s no secret that Google is in the midst of a pretty massive overhaul of its Pixel division. The Pixel 6 offers the next major Hail Mary for the company’s hardware division, complete with its own custom chip, Tensor. This is not that. The new flagship w
