December 22, 2020
Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on…
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December 22, 2020
Google invests in Indian startups Glance and DailyHunt
Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes a further push into the world’s second-largest internet market. Two-year-old…
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Unicorn travel startup Hopper is facing a pandemic-fueled customer service nightmare
Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. But the complications around getting airline…
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Indian food delivery giant Zomato secures $660 million
Zomato has raised $660 million in a financing round that it kicked off last year as the Indian food delivery startup prepares to go public next year. The…
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From India’s richest man to Amazon and 100s of startups: The great rush to win neighborhood stores
After spending more than a decade disrupting the neighborhood stores in the U.S. and several other markets, Amazon and Walmart are employing an unusual strategy in India to…
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Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app
A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world…
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PhotoRoom launches background-removal app on Android
French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been working on a utility photography app that lets you remove the background from a…
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Klima publicly launches its consumer-focused carbon offset app
Andreas Pursian, Markus Gilles and Jonas Brandau, the three co-founders of Klima, an app focused on helping consumers understand and offset their carbon emissions, first found entrepreneurial success…
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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro
Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started…
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Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia
Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service operators, but the market is very…
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