Liquid Death, a four-year LA-based canned mountain water startup that has steadily gained market share and press coverage by amusingly promising to “kill your thirst,” has just raised $ 15 million to Series-C -Means applied. The round brings the company’s previous support to $ 50 million. The new funding – after a Series B round … Read more
Tesla CEO and The self-proclaimed Technoking puts the company’s stance on Bitcoin in the background and has suspended the purchase of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency. The change in stance, transmitted via tweet, comes just a few weeks after Tesla’s CFO and the title of “Master of Coin”. Zach Kirkhorn said the company believes … Read more
The circular economy, in which consumers themselves are both providers and buyers of goods and services, has emerged as a popular and trusted way of buying and selling things over the last year of the lockdown life. Now one of the bigger players in this system – the clothing and homeware marketplace Vinted – is … Read more
Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping companies secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering, announced today that it has received a Series A funding round of Has launched $ 20 million. Seed investor YL Ventures also participated in this round, bringing the company’s total funding to $ 24.6 million. In its beginnings, … Read more
Years after opening a Pandora’s box of bad behavior, social media companies are trying to find subtle ways to reshape the way people use their platforms. Similar to Twitter, Facebook is trying out a new feature to encourage users to read a link before sharing it. The test will reach 6 percent of Facebook Android … Read more
Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store – assuming you live in the US The voice-based social network released its beta Android app on the Play Store for users in the US on Sunday, stating that the new app will gradually be available in other English-speaking countries and … Read more
At the heart of Duolingo is the mission to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that helped grow the company with over 500 million registered learners into a $ 2.4 billion company has created tensions that continue to rule the company. How do you survive as a … Read more
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Shares of Square are up more than 6% today after the American fintech company reported revenue of a staggering $ 5.06 billion in its earnings report for the first quarter of 2021, well ahead of an expected figure of $ 3.36 billion . Publishing the huge increase in sales, Square grew 266% compared to the … Read more
As expected, Bill.com buys Divvy, the Utah-based corporate spend management startup that competes with Brex, Ramp, and Airbase. The total purchase price of roughly $ 2.5 billion is well above the roughly $ 1.6 billion value after the cash that Divvy committed during its $ 165 million funding round in January 2021. Divvy’s growth rate … Read more