Tag: TechCrunch

Atlantic Labs spins-out FoodLabs, a €100m FoodTech fund addressing climate and health (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

In the latest sign that that the tech industry is pivoting towards climate and sustainability, Atlantic Food Labs – an offshoot of the Berlin fund...

Ex-minister predicts ‘huge battleground’ over UK’s plan to set Internet content rules (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

The former UK minster of state for what is now the digital and culture department, DCMS, has warned of the looming battle in parliament over...

Tiger Global backs African fintech Mono in $15M Series A round (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

Mono, an African startup that helps connect consumers’ bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $15 million Series A round, the company confirmed...

Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum, another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led...

Gogoro launches battery swapping stations in China (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

Five months after announcing a deal with two of China’s biggest two-wheel vehicle makers, Gogoro officially launched there today, opening 45 battery swapping stations in Hangzhou....

Amazon bets on Hindi voice shopping to reach wider India (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Speaking of Amazon — which is reportedly conducting an investigation to find whether its lawyers bribed government officials in India — the company announced today it...

Amazon starts probe over bribe to gov’t officials by its lawyers in India, report says (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Amazon has launched an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India following a complaint from a whistleblower who alleged that one...

FloBiz raises $31 million to scale its neobank for small businesses in India (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has...

Xata is a database service for serverless apps (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Meet Xata, a startup with a new take on managed databases. The company runs your database for you and turns it into an API so...

India’s Cars24, a used-vehicle sales platform, raises $450M at a $1.84B valuation (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking...

Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible (Kate Park, TechCrunch)

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform...

Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform (Kate Park, TechCrunch)

CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online...

TikTok is hiding a viral challenge that has kids stealing their school’s soap dispensers (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

It’s back to school season and on TikTok, that means students are inexplicably stealing everything that isn’t bolted down. The latest TikTok trend to generally...

Inside Reach Capital’s edtech-powered returns (Natasha Mascarenhas, TechCrunch)

Reach Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm co-founded by Jennifer Carolan and Shauntel Garvey, focused exclusively on edtech for years before the sector ballooned with unicorns. The rare,...

Tiger Global-led $100M investment makes Apna India’s fastest unicorn (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to...

In growth marketing, signal determines success (Jonathan Martinez, TechCrunch)

Unlike a weak phone signal solely causing a grainy sound, in growth marketing, it can mean the difference between a successful program or a...