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UK’s MarketFinance secures $383M to fuel its online loans platform for SMBs
Small and medium businesses regularly face cashflow problems. But if that’s an already-inconvenient predicament, it has been exacerbated to the breaking point for too many during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, a UK startup called MarketFinance — which has built a loans platform to help SMBs stay afloat through those leaner times — is announcing a […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 11:47 am
Blackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation
New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launched the next version of its disinformation intelligence platform this fall. The Series A is led by Dorilton Ventures, along with new investors including Generation Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, StartFast Ventures and Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism advisor for the National Security […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 11:28 am
Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue,” announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot’s ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to serve on its executive team. The Miami-based fintech also revealed today its first expansion outside of the United States with its entry into the U.K. […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 11:00 am
Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to connect retailers with suppliers in Egypt
Year-old startup Capiter announced last week that it raised a $33 million Series A to digitize Egypt’s traditional offline retail market. It’s looking to take a large pie in the budding e-commerce and retail play, where multiple startups are pulling their weight including Cartona, also a year-old startup out of Egypt. Today, Cartona is announcing that […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 9:49 am
Paralympians bring home gold medals, but we’re failing them on web accessibility
With the internet taking an increasingly central part in our lives, we're seeing the same exclusionary practices that we experienced — and fought — all those years ago reappearing in a new form. Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 6:06 am
Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game
French startup Sorare has announced that it has raised a significant funding round. SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 has led a $680 million Series B round, which values the company at $4.3 billion. Sorare has built a fantasty football (soccer) platform based on NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Each digital card is registered as a unique token […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 6:00 am
Netflix launches free plan in Kenya to boost growth
Netflix said on Monday it is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the global streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users. The free plan, which will be rolled out to all users in Kenya in the coming weeks, won’t require them to […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 5:42 am
VC Mark Suster: “The bet we’re making now is on founder skills,” instead of customers or products
We recently caught up with longtime VC Mark Suster of L.A.-based Upfront Ventures, which last raised both an early-stage fund and a growth stage fund several years ago and, according to regulatory filings, is in the market right now, though Suster couldn’t discuss either owing to SEC regulations. We did talk about a wide range […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 2:28 am
MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
By the end of this week, potentially thousands of Tesla owners will be testing out the automaker’s newest version of its “Full Self-Driving” beta software, version 10.0.1, on public roads, even as regulators and federal officials investigate the safety of the system after a few high-profile crashes. A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 2:10 am
TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks
Open banking — a disruptive technology that seeks to bypass the dominance of card networks and other traditional financial rails by letting banks open their systems directly to developers (and new services) by way of APIs — continues to gain ground in the world of financial services. As a mark of that traction, a startup […] Read more »
Source: TechCrunch | Published: 21 września, 2021 - 1:12 am