Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today that it has raised $ 22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used to expand Glints in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan, as well as to recruit its product and development teams. Oswald Yeo, co-founder and … Read more
Why has Byju raised over $ 1 billion in the last year and is already nearing another half a billion dollars in hedge? We’re getting some answers today. Byju’s announced on Monday that it had acquired Aakash Educational Services, a 33-year-old chain of physical coaching centers, as the Indian online learning giant continues to consolidate … Read more
Amazon started the holiday weekend with a slight step backwards in a social media offensive that played out in the dwindling days of a historic union vote. The earlier comments reportedly came in as Jeff Bezos pushed for a more aggressive strategy. In addition to taking on Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Amazon News’ … Read more
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Apple adds classic titles to Apple Arcade, Microsoft has an outage, and Coinbase goes public. This is your daily crisis for April 2nd, 2021. The big story: Apple Arcade is expanding to include classic games Previously, Apple’s game subscription service was limited to exclusive new titles. Two new categories are launched today: App Store Greats … Read more
Kevin Xu is an early stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter about technology, business, and US-Asia relations. Mexico was Known as an emerging tech hub and gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focusing on developer-centric products, open source startups, and infrastructure technology companies with a particular interest in innovation … Read more
TechCrunch is starting a new major project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks we will be asking entrepreneurs in these cities to speak in their own words about their ecosystems. This is your chance to put your city on the Techcrunch map! This … Read more
Sarah Kunst, founding partner of Cleo Capital, has worn many hats. She has been an entrepreneur, board member, writer to Marie Clare, senior advisor to Bumble, and a consultant in marketing, business development, and more. With all this experience, she knows only too well that the fundraising process begins long before your first pitch meeting. … Read more
Amazon will soon be a big part of the space economy in the form of its Kuiper satellite internet constellation, but here on Earth its ambitions are more mundane: to get an accelerator going. They teamed up with space-focused VC outfit Seraphim Capital to create a four-week program with (among other things) an AWS credit … Read more
IBM has installed some of its own Quantum System One machines around the world in the past few years. Today, IBM announced its first US private sector deployment thanks to a new ten year partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Not only is this IBM’s first US installation of one of its quantum computers outside of … Read more