Indian edtech Teachmint valued at $500 million in $78 million funding: Manish Singh
As scores of Indian online startups broaden their catalogs with live and recorded courses for students, a handful of new-age startups are beginning to explore different approaches to serve the market. Teachmint, one such startup that is helping teachers creat…
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation: Ingrid Lunden
Buy now, pay later services like Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and many others have seen their businesses grow in huge leaps, as consumers buying goods increasingly turned to alternatives to credit to delay paying for them in full. Now a Berlin-based startup calle…
Wefight answers questions about chronic illness with its virtual assistant: Romain Dillet
Meet Wefight, a French startup that has developed more than a dozen apps to help people suffering from chronic illness. Using a basic chatbot interface, people can ask questions and get answers about their illness. The startup recently raised a $11.6 million …
Brazilian insurtech Justos raises $35.8M in Ribbit Capital-led Series A: Mary Ann Azevedo
Justos, a startup that says it will be the first insurance company in Brazil to use data when determining rates, has raised a $35.8 million Series A round of funding led by Ribbit Capital. SoftBank’s Latin American Fund and GGV participated as new investors, …
Elon Musk rolls back newest 'Full Self-Driving' beta due to software issues: Rebecca Bellan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company would have to temporarily pull back the latest version of the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software less than a day after its release. “Seeing some issues with 10.3, so rolling back to 10.2 temporarily,” …
India's Groww valued at $3 billion in $251 million funding: Manish Singh
Groww has tripled its valuation to $3 billion in just six months as the Indian fintech startup looks to broaden its offerings and help more millennials start their investment journey in the world’s second largest internet market. Iconic Growth led the Bangalo…
Stripe backs India's Clear in $75 million funding: Manish Singh
Stripe has made its second investment in India, just days after disclosing the first. One of the world’s most valuable startups has backed Bangalore-based SaaS fintech firm Clear, the two said Sunday evening. The 10-year-old Indian startup, formerly known as …
5 changes social-audio apps should consider making now: Adonica Shaw
Social-audio apps need to leverage the same strategies used by major news organizations.
How intensive modding ushered in China’s computer revolution: Tom Mullaney
In my previous essay on TechCrunch, I examined the profound challenges which confronted the computer engineers trying to fit tens of thousands of Chinese characters in a memory system designed to handle a much smaller alphanumeric symbolic system. The enginee…
Top highlights from Xpeng's 2021 Tech Day: Rebecca Bellan
Chinese smart electric vehicle startup Xpeng has announced a series of innovations that direct the company towards crafting the mobility ecosystem of the future. “Our exploration of more efficient, safer, carbon-neutral mobility solutions goes far beyond jus…
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