Colombian startup Simetrik, which offers no-code payment infrastructure tools, raises a $20M Series A at a $100M+ valuation led by FinTech Collective (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Colombian startup Simetrik, which offers no-code payment infrastructure tools, raises a $20M Series A at a $100M+ valuation led by FinTech Collective — Infrastructure startups continue…
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Theta Lake, which provides compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Slack, raises a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures (Kyle Alspach/VentureBeat)
Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: Theta Lake, which provides compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Slack, raises a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Theta…
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Source: Sriram Krishnan, known for holding product leadership roles at Facebook, Twitter, and Snap, has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner (Alex Heath/The Information)
Alex Heath / The Information: Source: Sriram Krishnan, known for holding product leadership roles at Facebook, Twitter, and Snap, has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner — Sriram Krishnan, a…
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An overview of China’s robotaxi services offered by AutoX, Baidu, Deeproute.ai, Didi, Momenta, Pony.ai, and WeRide, and the progress they made in 2021 (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
Rita Liao / TechCrunch: An overview of China’s robotaxi services offered by AutoX, Baidu, Deeproute.ai, Didi, Momenta, Pony.ai, and WeRide, and the progress they made in 2021 — Autonomous driving startups…
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0x Labs, the startup behind the 0x exchange protocol and a provider of decentralized exchange infrastructure, raises $15M Series A led by Pantera Capital (Michael McSweeney/The Block)
Michael McSweeney / The Block: 0x Labs, the startup behind the 0x exchange protocol and a provider of decentralized exchange infrastructure, raises $15M Series A led by Pantera Capital — Quick…
Read more » Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his and later Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May (Theodore Schleifer/Vox)
Theodore Schleifer / Vox: Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his and later Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May — It’s the latest retrenchment from…
Read more » Profile of Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov, who is charged with treason in Russia, sources say for allegedly giving the US info about Fancy Bear’s 2016 operation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Profile of Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov, who is charged with treason in Russia, sources say for allegedly giving the US info about Fancy Bear’s 2016 operation — Ilya Sachkov,…
Read more » How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, with profits up 3.7x to $95B (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
Patrick McGee / Financial Times: How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, with profits up 3.7x…
Read more » An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate non-native and non-standard English speakers (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate non-native and non-standard English speakers — The…
Read more » Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center (Soraya Permatasari/Bloomberg)
Soraya Permatasari / Bloomberg: Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center — – Grab’s…
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