Wunder Mobility built its business sales software on shooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now they are relying on a new – and once secret – credit department to generate more revenue, which will give micromobility operators another way to access capital without pitching venture capitalists and other investors. The company announced the … Read more
Over a week ago, NASA placed a $ 2.9 billion contract with Elon Musks SpaceX to build a lunar lander for the upcoming Artemis Moon project. When choosing SpaceX, NASA handed over the defense company Dynetics and Blue Origin. The latter is now challenging the decision. In a protest filed with the Federal Government Accountability … Read more
MacKenzie Scott. (Elena Seibert photo) MacKenzie Scott caused a stir in 2020 by donating more than $ 5 billion of her massive fortune to a variety of organizations. In a new report this weekend, the New York Times describes how scammers have followed in Scott’s footsteps and approached the vulnerable with promises of more financial … Read more
Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high-end meat in a lab have investors lining up for a spot on the company’s cap table. Just weeks after launching Y Combinator’s famous accelerator program, the Silicon Valley-based prospect of premium lamb fillets, elk steaks, bison burgers and more raised $ 5 million in funding. The company is led … Read more
California wasn’t shy about getting rid of oil, and that includes oil production now. Earther reports that Governor Newsom has announced plans to end oil production in California by 2045. Officials are yet to pinpoint the exact route, but the exit will come through the climate protection plan, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions … Read more
Primarily responsible for PATH’s COVID-19 diagnostic platform from left to right: Lorraine Lillis, Scientific Program Director for Diagnostics; Neha Agarwal, Assistant Director of Diagnostics, and Olivia Halas, Program Coordinator for Diagnostics. (PATH Photos) While all eyes are on the COVID-19 vaccine, the more dangerous variants of the virus are increasingly dominating. In Washington State, the … Read more
Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible engineering pedigrees, but their latest endeavor is digging as much dirt as digging through lines of code. The two women founded Neverland, a home gardening startup that aims to be a marketplace that connects mom and pop stores to the explosion of amateur horticulturists that have sprung up … Read more
Dutch politicians have just received a first hand lesson on the dangers of fake videos. According to NL Times and De Volkskrant, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Parliament was tricked into making a video call with someone using deepfake technology to impersonate Leonid Volkov (above), the chief of staff of Russian opposition leader … Read more
Assistant Professor Melody Campbell prepares a sample in the Cryo-EM Laboratory for Shared Resources at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. (Fred Hutch photo) Dr. Melody Campbell was an undergraduate student when she first noticed the beauty and power of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that uses extreme temperatures and an electron … Read more
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s based largely on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but it’s free and suitable for your weekend reading. A week ago, TechCrunch raised Pico’s $ 6.5 million funding round, describing it as “a New York startup helping online developers … Read more