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Cloud kitchen startup JustKitchen to go public on the TSX Venture Exchange
Today 3:22 EDT
JustKitchen, a cloud kitchen startup, will start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Venture Exchange on Thursday morning. It is doing a direct listing of its common shares, having already...
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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $67M
Today 3:17 EDT
A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding...
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lingoda
Challenger bank N26 to offer insurance products
Today 3:00 EDT
Fintech startup N26 is launching N26 Insurance as it plans to offer insurance products that you can access from the company’s mobile app and website. The first insurance product is a smartphone...
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Atrium, which help sales managers more easily see who is (or isn’t) crushing it, just raised $13.5 million
April 14, 2021
There’s no shortage of data-driven sales management tools in the market. Naturally, Atrium, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based company cofounded by serial entrepreneur Pete Kazanjy, says it does a...
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Daily Crunch: Coinbase goes public
April 14, 2021
Coinbase makes an impressive public debut, Dell spins out VMware and Ford announces a new hands-free driving system. This is your Daily Crunch for April 14, 2021. The big story: Coinbase goes public...
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Daily Crunch
Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M
April 14, 2021
Pico, a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money and manage their customer data, announced today that it has launched an upgraded platform and raised $6.5 million in...
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Hear how to raise big funding (and use it well) from FirstMark’s Rick Heitzmann and Orchard’s Court Cunningham
April 14, 2021
Orchard, founded in 2017, was relatively early to the proptech industry. The company, originally called Perch, focused on dual-trackers, which are folks who are both buying and selling a home...
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Building customer-first relationships in a privacy-first world is critical
April 14, 2021
With clarity of vision, privacy can improve business outcomes. Prioritizing consumer trust and transparency is the right thing to do, and it can help the bottom line too.
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identity management
consumer privacy
online advertising
Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company
April 14, 2021
Dell announced this afternoon that it’s spinning out VMware, a move that has been suspected for some time. Dell, which acquired VMware as part of the massive $67 billion EMC acquisition in 2015, owns...
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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers
April 14, 2021
A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned. A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the...
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How to pivot your startup, save cash and maintain trust with investors and customers
April 14, 2021
"We would go all in on a product and we'd build it and put blood, sweat and tears into it, and then I would kill it, and we'd move on to the next thing."
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Ford takes aim at Tesla, GM with its new hands-free driving system
April 14, 2021
Ford will debut its new hands-free driving feature on the 2021 F-150 pickup truck and certain 2021 Mustang Mach-E models through a software update later this year, technology that the automaker...
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TikTok funds first episodic public health series ‘VIRAL’ from NowThis
April 14, 2021
TikTok is taking another step towards directly funding publishers’ content with today’s announcement that it’s financially backing the production of media publisher NowThis’ new series, “VIRAL,” which...
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Beat the deadline: Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021
April 14, 2021
Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. Heck, it even played a role in the HBO show, “Silicon Valley,” and its influence touches early-stage...
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Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio
April 14, 2021
After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off the first major product of that deal. Kroger has...
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Deep fake video app Avatarify, which process on-phone, plans digital watermark for videos
April 14, 2021
Making deep fake videos used to be hard. Now all you need is a smartphone. Avatarify, a startup that allows people to make deep-fake videos directly on their phone rather than in the Cloud, is soaring...
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MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot
April 14, 2021
There’s no doubt this past year has been a major watershed moment for the robotics industry. Warehouse and logistics have been a particular target for an automation push, as companies have worked to...
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Alexa von Tobel outlines how founders should manage personal finances
April 14, 2021
Von Tobel outlines steps to stay out of debt, build credit and accumulate wealth to ensure financial peace of mind as you take on the most stressful venture of your life: Starting a company.
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Google’s FeedBurner moves to a new infrastructure but loses its email subscription service
April 14, 2021
Google today announced that it is moving FeedBurner to a new infrastructure but also deprecating its email subscription service. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, chances are you used...
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Coinbase opens at $381 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at nearly $100B
April 14, 2021
Today shares of Coinbase began to trade after the company executed a direct listing. From a reference price of $250, Coinbase shares opened at $381 today, a change of around 52% percent. At its open...
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TC
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Indian fintech Zeta turns unicorn with SoftBank-led funding
April 14, 2021
Bangalore-based fintech startup Zeta has clinched the much sought-after unicorn status after finalizing a new financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, sources familiar with the matter told...
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Triller owner gets a new CEO with acquisition of Amplify.AI; also acquires live streaming service FITE TV
April 14, 2021
Would be TikTok competitor Triller, operated by parent company TrillerNet, is gaining a new CEO, the company announced today. The short-form video app said it’s acquiring an A.I.-based customer...
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Blue Origin launches and lands New Shepard rocket in key prep flight for human passengers
April 14, 2021
Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket for the second time this year, and the 15th time overall. The mission profile saw the reusable spacecraft fly to suborbital space, and then return for a...
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Uber hit with default ‘robo-firing’ ruling after another EU labor rights GDPR challenge
April 14, 2021
Labor activists challenging Uber over what they allege are ‘robo-firings’ of drivers in Europe have trumpeted winning a default judgement in the Netherlands — where the Court of Amsterdam ordered the...
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How Pilot charted a course of not raising too much money
April 14, 2021
A few weeks ago, we wrote about fintech Pilot raising a $100 million Series C that doubled the company’s valuation to $1.2 billion. Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment...
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Amira Learning raises $11M to put its AI-powered literacy tutor in post-COVID classrooms
April 14, 2021
School closures due to the pandemic have interrupted the learning processes of millions of kids, and without individual attention from teachers, reading skills in particular are taking a hit. Amira...
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Bird, Lime and VeoRide selected for NYC e-scooter pilot
April 14, 2021
Lime, Bird and VeoRide have scored coveted permits to New York City’s first e-scooter pilot. The New York City Department of Transportation, which originally released a request for proposals in October...
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Check out the tech leaders joining us on Extra Crunch Live in May
April 14, 2021
Extra Crunch Live, our weekly event series that connects founders with tech leaders, is really picking up speed. Recently, we had a conversation with Accel’s Dan Levine and Scale’s Alexandr Wang about...
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Dear Sophie: How can I get an H-1B without the lottery?
April 14, 2021
For the past few years, our company has put very promising candidates into the annual H-1B lottery. None of them have been selected. Are there any other ways we can obtain H-1Bs for our team members?
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Toyota taps Apex.AI for its autonomous vehicle operating system
April 14, 2021
Automakers shifting to all-electric and tech-laden vehicles have discovered that software — and more aptly software that is free of bugs and can be updated wirelessly — has become a consistent speed...
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