May 21, 2021
Mental health app Wysa raises $5.5M for ’emotionally intelligent’ AI
It’s hard enough to talk about your feelings to a person; Jo Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Wysa, is hoping you’ll find it easier to confide in…
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May 21, 2021
As Zynga impresses, rival mobile-gaming shop Jam City looks to list via SPAC
While it would be nice to write about something other than yet another tech company looking to list via a SPAC, the deals keep dropping, so our more…
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Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap
Melbourne O’Banion Contributor Share on Twitter Melbourne O’Banion is co-founder and CEO of digital life insurance company Bestow. An estimated 41 million Americans say they need life insurance…
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LinkedIn is the reason Apple made the M1 chip
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was good fun not only because we had the…
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Decentralized Komorebi Collective launches to back female and nonbinary crypto founders
As decentralized currencies have taken off in recent months, there’s been renewed attention around DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, as a means of bringing together groups of investors…
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Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Series B round
TaniHub Group, an Indonesian startup that helps farmers get better prices and more customers for their crops, has raised a $65.5 million Series B. The funding was led…
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Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M seed funding in farm-to-table startup Secai Marche
Farmers and food businesses, like restaurants, deal with the same issue: a fragmented supply chain. Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling…
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Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed
Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. This means people in smaller cities or rural…
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Telemedicine startups are positioning themselves for a post-pandemic world
Telemedicine, in its original form of the phone call, has been around for decades. For people in remote or rural areas without easy access to in-person care, consulting…
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factory14 raises $200M to jump into the Amazon marketplace roll-up race
It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of…
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