According to TechCrunch, DigitalOcean has warned customers via email about a data breach with the customer’s billing data. The cloud infrastructure giant told its customers on Wednesday in an email it received from TechCrunch that it “has confirmed unauthorized disclosure of details related to the billing profile in your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the … Read more
Founders Circle Capital, a nine-year-old San Francisco-based investment firm that has agreements with private venture capital companies to buy some of their founders and employees’ vested stock options – so they can buy a home or just breathe a little easier – has closed its newest fund with $ 355 million committed capital, bringing the … Read more
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
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
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
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
Bobby Goodlatte ist erst seit etwa einem Jahrzehnt ein Investor, aber er scheint bereits zig Millionen Dollar verdient zu haben, entgegen den Erwartungen einiger traditioneller VCs, die privat und öffentlich festgestellt haben, dass zu viele unerfahrene Investoren in die USA geflutet sind Industrie. „Ich erinnere mich an einen sehr prominenten Investor, der damals sagte:‚ All … Read more
Alphawave IP is a global semiconductor IP company focused on the way semiconductors communicate. This will be crucial as 5G data networks are rolled out, for example powering everything from homes, industry and autonomous vehicles. It is interesting, therefore, to note that the Toronto-born company has plans to go public in London valued at $ … Read more
When Xuezhao Lan founded Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to use the technology to enable venture capital investments. From the earliest days when Lan hired former TechCrunch reporter John Mannes and then built the team with data scientist Rachel Wong, former Upfront Ventures partner Chang Xu, and former Vice President of Growth Sheila Vashee, … Read more
Much has changed in the last decade of instant photography, but the box-like structure of instant cameras has remained more or less intact. Modern instant shooters have scaled down and applied a variety of calming pastels, but they’re not exactly sleek. Lo and behold, Polaroid – the new Polaroid, not the old Polaroid – has … Read more