July 8, 2021
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful
In the wake of Coinbase’s direct listing earlier this year, other crypto companies may be looking to go public sooner than later. That appears to be the case…
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July 8, 2021
Rootly nabs $3.2M seed to build SRE incident management solution inside Slack
As companies look for ways to respond to incidents in their complex microservices-driven software stacks, SREs — site reliability engineers — are left to deal with the issues…
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Dropbox is reimagining the workplace with Dropbox Studios
The pandemic has been a time for a lot of reflection on both a personal and business level. Tech companies in particular are assessing whether they will ever…
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European challenger bank Bunq raises $228 million at $1.9 billion valuation
Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq has been self-funded by its founder and CEO Ali Niknam for several years. But the company has decided to raise some external capital, leading…
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The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract
When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed to have a…
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Opaque raises $9.5M seed to secure sensitive data in the cloud
Opaque, a new startup born out of Berkeley’s RISELab, announced a $9.5 million seed round today to build a solution to access and work with sensitive data in…
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Cloverly snags $2.1M seed to continue developing API to measure and offset carbon usage
Cloverly, an Atlanta-based, early-stage startup, has developed an API that helps companies measure and then offset their carbon emissions. Today the company announced a $2.1 million seed round.…
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AnyVision, the controversial facial recognition startup, has raised $235M led by SoftBank and Eldridge
Facial recognition has been one of the more conflicted applications of artificial intelligence in the wider world: using computer vision to detect faces and subsequent identities of people…
Read articleJuly 6, 2021
Extra Crunch roundup: Video pitch decks, Didi’s regulatory struggles, Nothing CEO interview
The numbers don’t lie. According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. And if you think a senior VC is studying the presentation…
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Sarah Guo, Kobie Fuller & Casey Aylward headline investor panel at TC Sessions: SaaS
While SaaS has become the default way to deliver software in 2021, it still takes a keen eye to find the companies that will grow into successful businesses,…
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