Sean O’Sullivan, founder of global venture company SOSV, has slowly but steadily built a sizeable operation over the years. SOSV began as a family office and invested O’Sullivan’s capital after co-founding two companies, including MapInfo, a company that went public in 1994 before Pitney Bowes took over three more funds years later in 2007 , … Read more
Tiger Global is in talks to lead a $ 30 million round at Indian edtech startup Classplus, sources familiar with the matter. The new round, which includes both primary investments and secondary transactions, values the five-year-old Indian startup at over $ 250 million, two sources told TechCrunch. The new round follows another ~ $ 30 … Read more
Robotics Roundup: Inventory Funding, University Accelerators, and How To Avoid Putting Your Eggs in One Basket Brian heater @beater / 8 hours While I’m typing I have just finished my second panel for our big TC Sessions: Mobility event. The write-ups will be ready in time for next week’s summary, but it’s worth thinking about … Read more
Abhinav Shashank Contributor Innovaccer founder and CEO Abhinav Shashank has written more than 300 articles for various international media and was also listed in Forbes’ “30 Under 30 Asia 2017: Enterprise Tech” and among the “Top 60 Rising Leaders in US Healthcare under 40” by Becker’s Hospital Review 2019. Mike Sutten, CTO at Innovaccer, has … Read more
Wagely founders (from left to right): Tobias Fischer, Sasanadi Ruka and Kevin Hausburg Earning Income (EWA) platforms, which allow workers to withdraw their earnings on demand, rather than waiting for payday, are on the rise around the world. Today, Indonesian EWA startup Lohnly announced that it has raised $ 5.6 million in strategic funding, led … Read more
On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Justice said it had confiscated much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid to a Russian hacker collective called DarkSide last month by tracking the payment as it passed through various Hacker group accounts hiked, and eventually broke into one of those accounts with … Read more
Pinterest has long positioned itself as a source of inspiration that could ultimately lead to online purchases. And over the years it has worked on features to better connect consumers with the products and services they want to buy, such as: B. Shopping Pins, Visual Search, AR Try On, Product Recommendations, and more. Today, the … Read more
The country is investing heavily in its own satellite constellations in near-earth orbit There was a wave of companies in recent years hoping to offer broadband internet from thousands of satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) that cover most of the earth’s surface. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen excitement in this category. Companies … Read more
Hello friends and welcome back to the week in retrospect! Last week I wrote about how tech is fighting Disney. This week, I’m talking about finding a new crypto messiah. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get it in your inbox from the Newsletter page, and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. The … Read more
TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec reported today that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is on the verge of signing a merger agreement with one of three blank check companies previously founded by renowned entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus and a third partner in these transactions, Michael Thompson, who managed special funds for a long time. The … Read more