Callin, David Sacks’ ‘social podcasting’ app, launches and announces a $12M Series A round
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As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. The resulting app Callin launches today on iOS with an announc
Corelight secures $75M Series D to bolster its network defense offering
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Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. The round — which also includes a strategWhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR
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It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has just announced a €225 million (~$267M) for WhatsApp. The Facebook-owIndia launches Account Aggregator system to extend financial services to millions
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India’s top banks five years ago built the interoperable UPI railroads and enabled over 150 million people in the South Asian market to pay digitally. Scores of firms — including local firms Paytm, PhonePe, CRED and international giants Google and FacAxleHire to scale Tortoise and URB-E zero-emissions delivery solutions nationally
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Last-mile logistics supplier AxleHire provides same-day and next-day delivery through a network that includes gig economy, couriers and traditional carriers. Over the past year, it has been quietly piloting automated repositioning startup Tortoise’s remSoftBank deepens commitment to LatAm with two new partners focused on early-stage investing
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In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. A lot has changed since then. SoftBank changed the name of tFAA opens probe into anomaly on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight
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The FAA is looking into an anomaly on the Virgin Galactic flight that carried Richard Branson to space. Virgin's spacecraft went off-course during descent, triggering an «entry glide-cone warning.»Report: India may be next in line to mandate changes to Apple’s in-app payment rules
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Summer is still technically in session, but a snowball is slowly developing in the world of apps, and specifically the world of in-app payments. A report in Reuters today says that the Competition Commission of India, the country’s monopoly regulator, wStockeld Dreamery loves cheese so much that it raised $20M to make it out of legumes
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Stockeld Chunk is made using fermented legumes, which gives the cheese a feta-like look and feel and contains 30% protein.Stravito raises $14.6M to create a ‘Netflix for enterprise market research’
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Market research and insights are often underutilized assets for enterprises but it’s usually too hard to find content and there’s a lot of duplication, or information isn’t used well. Swedish startup Stravito says it can centralize internal and externaRISE will return to Hong Kong in 2022
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RISE, one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, is returning to Hong Kong in March 2022 as an in-person event, and will be held there for at least five years, announced organizer Web Summit today. Last year, Web Summit said RISE would move to Kuala Lumpur, buiPhone inside 30 mins? Germany’s Arive brings consumer brands to your door, raises €6M
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In Europe and the US we are very much getting used to groceries being delivered within 15 minutes, with a huge battleground of startups in the space. Startups across Europe and the US have raised no less than $3.1 billion in the last quarter alone for grocerTop Indian payments app PhonePe opens its data firehose to everyone
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PhonePe, one of the largest digital payments services in India, on Thursday launched Pulse, a free product to offer insights into how people in the world’s second largest internet market are paying digitally. And PhonePe would know: the Flipkart-backed fiveCajoo raises $40 million for its instant grocery delivery service
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French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. Interestingly, the lead investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. Headline (Apple announces new settlement with Japan allowing developers to link to external websites
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Apple has made a settlement with Japanese regulator that it will allow developers of “reader” apps link to their own website for managing users account. The change goes to effect in early 2022. This settlement comes after the Japan Fair Trade Commission (Massachussetts AG greenlights Uber, Lyft-backed gig worker ballot initiative
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey gave a coalition of app-based service providers like Uber and Lyft the go-ahead to start collecting signatures needed to put a proposed ballot measure before voters that would define drivers as independent contractoDaily Crunch: Researchers claim Fortress S03 home security system can be remotely disabled
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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.Here are all the companies from Day Two of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day
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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s continuing coverage of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day! This is Day Two. If you haven’t caught up yet on what happened during the first day, you can read our recap of all the presenting companies here, our favorites froUK now expects compliance with children’s privacy design code
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In the UK, a 12-month grace period for compliance with a design code aimed at protecting children online expires today — meaning app makers offering digital services in the market which are “likely” to be accessed by children (defined in thiOur favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 2
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From beaming actors into the class room to plucking things out of space, the second day of Y Combinator’s S21 Demo Day was a fresh snapshot of what nearly 200 startup teams believe is the future of innovation. Yesterday, the TechCrunch team covered the fir3 tips to align your values with your startup’s culture
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Being a CEO is more than building on a vision, a product or an idea. It's about leading your people with values to accomplish mutual goals in a way that doesn't zap them of their morale or dignity.How a Vungle-owned mobile marketer sent Fontmaker to the top of the App Store
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Does this sound familiar? An app goes viral on social media, often including TikTok, then immediately climbs to the top of the App Store where it gains even more new installs thanks to the heightened exposure. That’s what happened with the recent No. 1Subscription-based Bright Cellars lands more funding to personalize its wines
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Bright Cellars, a six-year-old, Milwaukee, Wis.-based subscription-based wine seller has, like many upstarts, evolved over time. While it once sent its club members third-party wines that fit their particular profiles, Bright Cellars says it’s now amassRocket Lab boosts its space systems divison in quest to become an “end-to-end space company”
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Peter Beck hasn’t been shy about his intention to grow Rocket Lab into more than just a launch provider, but a fully vertically integrated space company that makes spacecraft in addition to sending them to orbit. The company, which he founded in 2006, has tVirtual events startups have high hopes for after the pandemic
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Virtual events have been a temporary measure during the pandemic. But what will their value be as more of the world attempts to return to life before the pandemic?Agility Robotics’ Digit gets a warehouse gig
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A new video from Agility Robotics showcases an increasing familiar sight: advanced, autonomous robots performing boring warehouse tasks. It’s not the sort of video that tends to be hugely viral for a company, rather, it’s the sort of meat and potatoes proTwitter rolls out paid subscription ‘Super Follows’ to let you cash in on your tweets
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After opening applications in June, Twitter is rolling out Super Follows, its premium subscription option, starting today. The feature, first revealed in February, will allow users to subscribe to accounts they like for a monthly subscription fee in exchangeSphere raises $2M to help employees lobby for Green 401(k) plans
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In the United States, a 401(k) plan is an employer-sponsored defined-contribution pension account. However, with legacy institutional investing, most of these have at least some level of fossil fuel involvement and let’s face it, very few of us really knowBerlin Brands Group, now valued at $1B+, raises $700M to buy and scale merchants that sell on marketplaces like Amazon
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Berlin Brands Group — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more efficiently — has pStreamers are boycotting Twitch today to protest the platform’s lack of action on ‘hate raids’
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Over the last month, Twitch users have become increasingly concerned and frustrated with bot-driven hate raids. To protest Twitch’s lack of immediate action to prevent targeted harassment of marginalized creators, some streamers are going dark to observUbco 2X2 Adventure Bike review: Utility that shreds
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The company provided me with the Ubco 2X2 Adventure Bike for nearly a month, which gave me plenty of time to put it to the test.Goodcall picks up $4M, Yelp partnership to answer merchant inbound calls
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Goodcall’s free cloud-based conversational platform leverages artificial intelligence to manage incoming business phone calls and boost customer service while assisting to other patrons.Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’
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Twitter’s newest test could provide some long-awaited relief for anyone facing harassment on the platform. The new product test introduces a feature called “Safety Mode” that puts up a temporary line of defense between an account and the wavChrome Beta to experiment with a more powerful New Tab page, web highlights, and search changes
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Google is launching a new version of its Chrome Beta browser today that’s introducing some fairly notable changes to its user interface and design. The browser will introduce an updated New Tab page, which will now include cards directing you back to paForum Brands secures $100M in debt financing to acquire more e-commerce brands
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Forum Brands, an e-commerce acquisition platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in debt funding from TriplePoint Capital. The financing comes just just over two months after the startup raised $27 million in an equity funding round led by NSEC fines brokerage firms over email hacks that exposed client data
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fined several brokerage firms a total of $750,000 for exposing the sensitive personally identifiable information of thousands of customers and clients after hackers took over employee email accounts. A total ofFire up CrunchMatch today and start networking with TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 attendees
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