Swallowtail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea but may not have a technical background. Dovetail helps them build businesses from the ground up and prepare them for growth and more funding. The success … Read more
Twitter has appointed a resident complaints officer in India days after the American social media company reportedly lost liability cover for user-generated content in the South Asian nation for failing to comply with local IT rules. On Sunday, Twitter identified Vinay Prakash as his new resident complaints officer and shared an opportunity to contact him … Read more
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 9th, 2021. We made it to Friday, be proud. But we can’t relax yet – there is a lot to do today. From fraudulent … Read more
As environmental issues really grew up in the 1990s, some German automakers met in secret groups to make sure their cars continued to diligently contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Union, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and the Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler have made illegal agreements to restrict competition in the emission control … Read more
H venture partner brought together more than 75 consumer and retail industry experts to invest in their first fund raising $ 10 million for science-backed consumer brand startups. Founder and managing partner Elizabeth Edwards (pictured above) founded the Cincinnati-based venture capital company in 2017 after 15 years as a VC with other companies, primarily in … Read more
WellSaid Labs, whose tools produce synthetic speech that could be mistaken for reality, raised $ 10 million for the Series A to help grow the business. The company’s homemade text-to-speech engine works faster than real-time, producing natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hour-long readings. WellSaid emerged from the Allen Institute … Read more
The numbers don’t lie. According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is only checked for three minutes. And if you think a Senior VC is studying your team’s presentation for months like it’s a Faberge egg – well, you might be disappointed. Even if you’re lucky enough to get a meeting, the more likely that … Read more
Whether you’re part of the accounting department or just an employee of an organization, managing expenses can be a time-consuming and error-prone, but also a fairly mundane part of your job. Today, a startup called Pleo – which has built a platform that can help some of this work more smoothly, via a vertically integrated … Read more
Min Wanli had a career path that was highly sought after by those pursuing a career in computer science. As a child prodigy, Min was accepted into a top research university in China at the age of 14. Degrees in physics and statistics from the University of Chicago before spending nearly a decade at IBM … Read more