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Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B
SiCepat, an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round.
Addverb Technologies pushes robotic manufacturing with new Rs 75 cr
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Inside Atal Innovation Missions push to spur innovation across
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InsurGrid raises pre-seed financing to help modernize legacy
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Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark
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Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal
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A new asynchronous video startup, Weet, is helping employees
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Asynchronous video startup Weet just launched to cement bonds, and
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Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain
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Inside Workvivos plans to take on Microsoft in the employee
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Will moving, spacial video start to eat into square-box Zoom calls
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Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow
Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file
Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power
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German insurtech platform Hepster raises $10M Series A led by
Hepster, an insurtech platform from Germany, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding led by Element Ventures. Also
Google speeds up its release cycle for Chrome
Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four
How to successfully dance the creator-brand tango
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TikTok launches TikTok Q&A, a new feature for creators to engage
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Microsoft Edge now starts up faster and gets vertical tabs
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With $19M A round, Halo Dx combines data streams to better diagnose
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Apple clarifies you cant actually set a default music service in
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Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics closes $3.6M for pension funds
Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics has closed a 2.6 million ($3.6M) funding round for its platform, which aims to create
Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for
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Porsche unveils two new electric bikes alongside the Taycan Gran
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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup
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Bitfinex launches cryptocurrency payment gateway for merchants
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GM, LG Chem studying the feasibility of a second battery cell plant
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SITA says its airline passenger system was hit by a data breach
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Unraveling ThredUps IPO filing: Slow growth, but a shifting
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Snapcommerce raises $85M to make over your mobile shopping
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Papaya Global raises $100M more at a $1B+ valuation for tools to
Remote working hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office is looking like it
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Income verification is white-hot right now, and Plaid wants in
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Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay Z to its board in bid to
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SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites, while Starship moves
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Hopin confirms $400M raise at $5.65B valuation
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Wipro to buy Londons tech consultancy firm Capco for $1.45 billion
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Apples App Store is now also under antitrust scrutiny in the UK
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Boss of Chinese gaming titan NetEase calls for shared parental
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Deliveroo confirms anticipated 8bn floatation in London, will be
Food delivery start-up Deliveroo has today confirmed its 8bn ($11bn) stock market floatation in London, something which was
IFC backs Bolt with $24M to expand its transportation network in
Bolt, an Uber competitor that is building an international on-demand network of services to transport people, food and other
Countingup closes 9.1M for its business current account with built-
Countingup, the U.K. fintech offering a business current account with built-in accounting features, has closed 9.1 million in
WhatsApp adds voice and video calling to desktop app
WhatsApp is rolling out support for voice and video calling to its desktop app, the Facebook-owned messaging service said
Payfazz invests $30M in Xfers as the two Southeast Asian fintechs
Payfazz and Xfers, two startups that want to increase financial inclusion in Southeast Asia, announced today they have joined
Shipping groups tap algorithms to cut carbon emissions
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Indian state government website exposed COVID-19 lab test results
A security flaw in a website run by the government of West Bengal in India exposed the lab results of at least hundreds of
Loan restructuring: Should MSMEs opt for RBIs one-time
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Of all the gin joints etc. etc. Clubhouse continues to confound those who dont believe in the restorative powers of the Next
Mary Meekers Bond is closing on $2 billion for its second fund, per
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Revolut lets customers switch to Revolut Bank in 10 additional
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SpaceXs Starship prototype flies to 32,000 feet and sticks the
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Cashify raises $15 million for its second-hand smartphone business
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Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its 4,000 banks
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Twitter tests new e-commerce features for tweets
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Okta acquires cloud identity startup Auth0 for $6.5B
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Toro acquires robotic tractor/snow blower maker, Left Hand Robotics
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Amazon Fire TV expands live TV features, adds Alexa support for
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Dear Sophie: Can you demystify the H-1B process and E-3 premium
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11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck
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Version 2 of Googles Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and
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Postscript raises $35M to give Shopify stores SMS superpowers
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GSV Ventures doubles assets managed with new fund focused on global
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From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better
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Cables could help soft robots transform into harder structures
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EV rivals Tesla, Rivian unite to target direct sales legislation
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Netflix launches Fast Laughs, a TikTok-like feed of funny videos
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Microsoft launches Group Transcribe, a transcription and
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Clari revenue forecasting platform snags $150M investment and
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International VC firm Presight Capital raises $350M second fund
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As demand for cloud native applications is growing, Yugabyte, makers of the cloud native, open source YugabyteDB database are
Yugabyte announces $48M Series C as cloud native database makes
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$1.3M in grants go towards making the webs open source
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Deliverr scores $170M to bring fast delivery to every e-commerce
At a time when e-commerce is exploding due in large part to the pandemic, a business that helps any online merchant ship
Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz
Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search
Scarf helps open-source developers track how their projects are
Almost by default, open-source developers get very little insight into who uses their projects. In part, thats the beauty of
Minu, a Mexico City-based, pay-on-demand startup, lands a $14M
Many of the startups raising capital in Mexico are focused on financial inclusion, aiming to level the playing field in a
Oscar Health prices IPO at $39 and secures a $9.5B valuation
Late last night Oscar Health, a tech-enabled medical insurance provider, priced its IPO at $39 per share. The final price
Identiq, a privacy-friendly fraud prevention startup, secures $47M
Israeli fraud prevention startup Identiq has raised $47 million at Series A as the company eyes international growth, driven
Zynga acquires Echtra, maker of Torchlight 3, to double down on RPG
Games company Zynga has been on an acquisition tear the last several years to beef up its activity in particular in mobile
Netflix to release 41 original Indian shows and movies this year
Netflix said on Wednesday it will roll out 41 Indian films and shows this year, its biggest annual roster of Indian content
Zingbus forays into the west India region
In the coming days, the intercity bus service provider aims to broaden its services in Nashik, Aurangabad, Shirdi, Belgaum in