Battery Resourcers raises $70M to grow closed-loop battery supply chain
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Battery Resourcers, a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has closed $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. The company, which is based in Worcester, MassachuBusiness Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round
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Business Canvas, a South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment, with participation from Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. The seed round will be used
EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights
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Farming sustainably and efficiently has gone from a big tractor problem to a big data problem over the last few decades, and startup EarthOptics believes the next frontier of precision agriculture lies deep in the soil. Using high-tech imaging techniques, thPayPal launches its ‘super app’ combining payments, savings, bill pay, crypto, shopping and more
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PayPal has been talking about its “super app” plans for some time, having recently told investors its upcoming digital wallet and payments app had been given a go for launch. Today, the first version of that app is officially being introduced, offSlack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations
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Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure. SGoogle’s updated iOS 15 apps support Focus Mode and iPad widgets
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With iOS 15 now available to download, developers both big and small have started updating their apps to take advantage of the operating system’s marquee features. Google went big on iOS 15 features.Blue Bear Capital raises $150M to fund climate, energy and infrastructure tech
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Blue Bear Capital has raised a new $150 million fund that will be used to find and invest in startups developing technology aimed at speeding up the adoption and industrialization of renewable energy. This is the venture firm’s second fund, which it sayPost-pandemic shifts means Patch will take co-working to UK small towns and suburbs
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It would be fair to say the pandemic has had enormous effects on the world of work, but it has come at a time when other factors were already ongoing. The decline of main-street shopping due to e-commerce has only been hastened. The shift to remote working haAlan acquires Jour and launches mental health service Alan Mind
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French startup Alan is better known for its health insurance products — they now insure 200,000 people. But it has been slowly building a superapp for your health and expanding with new services. Today, the company announced its first acquisition ever withUK’s MarketFinance secures $383M to fuel its online loans platform for SMBs
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Small and medium businesses regularly face cashflow problems. But if that’s an already-inconvenient predicament, it has been exacerbated to the breaking point for too many during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, a UK startup called MarketFinance — whicAlternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
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Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue,” announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot’s ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to serve on its executive team. The Miami-based fintech also revealeBlackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation
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New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launched the next version of its disinformation intelligence platform this fall. The Series A is led by Dorilton Ventures, along with new investors including Generation Ventures,Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game
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French startup Sorare has announced that it has raised a significant funding round. SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 has led a $680 million Series B round, which values the company at $4.3 billion. Sorare has built a fantasty football (soccer) platform based on NParalympians bring home gold medals, but we’re failing them on web accessibility
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With the internet taking an increasingly central part in our lives, we're seeing the same exclusionary practices that we experienced — and fought — all those years ago reappearing in a new form.Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to connect retailers with suppliers in Egypt
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Year-old startup Capiter announced last week that it raised a $33 million Series A to digitize Egypt’s traditional offline retail market. It’s looking to take a large pie in the budding e-commerce and retail play, where multiple startups are pulliVC Mark Suster: “The bet we’re making now is on founder skills,” instead of customers or products
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We recently caught up with longtime VC Mark Suster of L.A.-based Upfront Ventures, which last raised both an early-stage fund and a growth stage fund several years ago and, according to regulatory filings, is in the market right now, though Suster couldn̵Netflix launches free plan in Kenya to boost growth
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Netflix said on Monday it is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the global streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users. The free plan, which will be rolled out to all users in Kenya in the coming wMIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
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By the end of this week, potentially thousands of Tesla owners will be testing out the automaker’s newest version of its “Full Self-Driving” beta software, version 10.0.1, on public roads, even as regulators and federal officials investigatVC Mark Suster: “The bet we’re making now is on founder skills,” not customers or products
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We recently caught up with longtime VC Mark Suster of L.A.-based Upfront Ventures, which last raised both an early-stage fund and a growth stage fund several years ago and, according to regulatory filings, is in the market right now, though Suster couldn̵TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks
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Open banking — a disruptive technology that seeks to bypass the dominance of card networks and other traditional financial rails by letting banks open their systems directly to developers (and new services) by way of APIs — continues to gain grounDaily Crunch: European regulators share more privacy concerns over Facebook “smart” glasses
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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.Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson is coming to Disrupt
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As the opportunities in the gaming world continue to expand aggressively as part of post-COVID shifts to the entertainment sector, esports has found its own opportunities in reaching new audiences. While competitive gaming is still in its early stages, the stAustralian growth marketing agency Ammo helps startups calibrate their efforts
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Australian growth marketing agency Ammo encourages startups to develop a minimum viable brand and provides services to make sure that their marketing efforts are correctly calibrated.Study finds half of Americans get news on social media, but percentage has dropped
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A new report from Pew Research finds that around a third of U.S. adults continue to get their news regularly from Facebook, though the exact percentage has slipped from 36% in 2020 to 31% in 2021. This drop reflects an overall slight decline in the number ofGM to replace battery modules in recalled Chevy Bolt EVs starting next month
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General Motors said Monday it will replace battery modules in recalled Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV vehicles as soon as next month now that supplier LG Chem has restarted production of cells at two Michigan factories. Replacement modules, which are made uThe next healthcare revolution will have AI at its center
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Human life expectancy increased from 31 years in 1900 to 72 years in 2017. Today, we are on the cusp of another healthcare revolution driven by artificial intelligence.iOS 15 adds all the little features that were missing
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The release of iOS 15 should be a major event for mobile operating systems. And yet, this year, there’s no breakthrough feature or overarching theme that makes this release stand out. Apple has focused on quality-of-life updates as well as new features forCarmichael Roberts, Sean O’Sullivan will share insights into climate tech and investing at Disrupt
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The effects of a warming planet, from frequent and extreme flooding to hurricanes and drought, has prompted activists and governments to take action. It’s also spurred a growing number of entrepreneurs to launch technology startups focused on the mitigatioNear Space Labs closes $13M Series A to send more Earth imaging robots to the stratosphere
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The decreasing cost of launch and a slew of other tech innovations have brought about a renaissance in geospatial intelligence, with multiple startups aiming to capture higher-quality and more frequent images of Earth than have ever before been available. MosToast raises IPO price range, providing a Monday bump to fintech valuations
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Toast will have to post pretty damn strong growth numbers for it to keep its multiple up. But the market appears willing to take that risk.Freshworks’ valuation could crest $10B in upcoming IPO
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Freshworks now expects to charge between $32 and $34 per share in its debut, up from the $28 to $32 per-share range that it initially disclosed.Disrupt 2021 kicks off tomorrow
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Time to carbo-load, startup fans. Tomorrow we kick off the opportunity marathon that is TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, and we can’t wait to see it all unfold! Considering the amount of programming available over the next three days, you might appreciate some expeFivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M
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Fivetran, the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration c
