Thursday, May 27, 2021

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  • Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round a day ago  –  Drug discovery is a large and growing field, encompassing both ambitious startups and billion-dollar Big Pharma incumbents. Engine Biosciences is one of the former, a Singaporean outfit with an expert founding crew and a different approach to the business of finding new therapeutics, and it just ...
  • Tesla has installed 200,000 Powerwalls around the world so far a day ago  –  Tesla has installed its 200,000th Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage product, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. Tesla’s CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors during a first-quarter earnings call in April that Tesla is continuing to work through a “multi-quarter backlog on Powerwa...
  • Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch a day ago  –  "The deck has to show that you're solving an important problem, that you've got the path to an important solution, that there is a big market opportunity, and that your team is positioned to execute."
  • Poparazzi hypes itself to the top of the App Store
  • 7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida
  • OpenAI’s $100M startup fund will make ‘big early bets’ with Microsoft as partner
  • Dear Sophie: Any unique immigration strategies for quick hiring?
  • Host live, interactive product demos at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
  • Europe to press the adtech industry to help fight online disinformation
  • African fintech OPay is reportedly raising $400M at over
  • Ada Health closes $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer 9 hours ago  –  The digital health space continues cooking on gas: Berlin-based Ada Health has closed a $90M Series B round of funding led by Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of the German multinational pharma giant, Bayer AG. Other investors in the round include Samsung Catalyst Fund, Vitruvian Partner...
  • Wayflyer raises $76M to provide ‘revenue-based’ financing to e-commerce merchants 10 hours ago  –  Wayflyer, a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. “Partners” of DST Global, QED Investors, Speedinvest and Zinal Growth — the family office of Guillaume Pousaz (founder of Checkout.com) — also put mo...
  • Twitter says concerned with India intimidation, requests 3 more months to comply with new IT rules 12 hours ago  –  Twitter called the recent visit by police to its Indian offices a form of intimidation and said it was concerned by some of the requirements in New Delhi’s new IT rules. Speaking for the first time since a special squad of Delhi police made a surprise visit to two of its offices on Monday, Twitte...
  • Meme-based dating is here: Meet Schmooze
  • Paired pulls in $3.6M to encourage more couples to get cosy with app-based relationship care
  • Agicap raises $100 million for its cashflow management service
  • Ford’s $30B investment in electric revs up in-house battery R&D
  • Lucid Motors reveals all the tech inside its all-electric Air sedan
  • Daily Crunch: In $8.45B deal, Amazon to buy MGM Studios
  • Twitter teases its upcoming ‘premium’ service, which it pl
  • Breinify announces $11M seed to bring data science to the marketing team 4 hours ago  –  Breinify is a startup working to apply data science to personalization, and do it in a way that makes it accessible to nontechnical marketing employees to build more meaningful customer experiences. Today the company announced a funding round totaling $11 million. The investment was led by Gutbra...
  • Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra and Madrona’s S. Somasegar to talk taking on Google on Extra Crunch Live 4 hours ago  –  Collaborative software is so hot right now, but the space is also incredibly crowded. It can be hard to rise above the noise, but Coda has managed to do so with $140 million in funding and a valuation topping $600 million. So it should go without saying that we’re excited to hear from Coda CEO […]
  • Dapper Labs backs art hardware startup Infinite Objects in $6 million seed raise 4 hours ago  –  The NFT world is all about reshaping the idea of digital ownership, but art hardware startup Infinite Objects sees a big opportunity in making physical copies of those assets as it looks to reshape digital art and collectibles. The startup makes screens that show a single video from a single arti...
  • Twitter Spaces will be available for the web, including accessibility features
  • Between a rock and a farm raise
  • Instacart speeds up grocery orders with ‘Priority Delivery’ option
  • Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring
  • RevenueCat raises $40M Series B for its in-app subscription platform
  • Calling all Yinzers, TechCrunch is (virtually) headed to Pittsburgh!
  • Filtered.ai closes $7M in funding to accelerate its techni
  • SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook 32 minutes ago  –  The idea of directly incentivizing users is a common rallying cry in the crypto community: Imagine an internet free from monopoly tech giants where users control and monetize their own data.
  • Orbiit raises Seed funding to automate the interactions within an online community 40 minutes ago  –   has raised a $2.7 million round led by Bread and Butter Ventures with participation from new investors High Alpha Capital, LAUNCHub Ventures and Company Ventures. Existing investors Founders Fund, which led Orbiit’s $1M...
  • CorrActions raises $2.7M to help avoid errors in human-machine interactions an hour ago  –  CorrActions, a noninvasive neuroscience startup that uses sensor data to evaluate a user’s cognitive state due to drowsiness, alcohol, fatigue and other issues, today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round. Early-stage fund VentureIsrael, seed fund Operator Partners and the Israel...
  • Augmented reality NFT platform Anima gets backing from Coinbase
  • Japanese space company ispace aims to send landers to the moon
  • What the ‘nonpolitical’ startup leader teaches us about company culture
  • This $250 million growth fund will divert half its profits to historically Black colleges and universities
  • Just 12 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021
  • The open-source Contributor Covenant is now managed by the Organization for Ethical Source
  • Utah DOT pilots Blyncsy’s AI-powered road maintenance
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  • San Jose approves Google’s gigantic and controversial new downtown campus a day ago  –  Image: Google After first proposing it in 2017, Google has received unanimous approval from the San Jose City Council to move forward with its Downtown West development plan, CNBC reports. The company and city have reached an agreement to develop around 80 acres of land in downtown San Jo...
  • Microsoft is holding an Xbox and Bethesda showcase on June 13th
  • Boost Mobile is offering customers an Android 11 phone for $35
  • Facebook plans to bury users who regularly share misinformation
  • ( Part of Facebook's plan to become totally irrelevant )
  • Apple TV 4K (2021) review: much better remote, slightly faster box
  • Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th
  • BlizzCon 2021 has been canceled
  • 1Password’s web extension now supports Touch ID, Windows Hello, and dark mode
  • Google isn’t ready to turn search into a conversation
  • Nvidia teases GeForce RTX 3080 Ti announcement for 
  • You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday 20 hours ago  –  Twitter Spaces on the web. | Image: Twitter You’ll be able to join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday, the company announced, making the company’s social audio rooms much more widely accessible. Previously, you could only join Spaces fr...
  • The PS5 will be profitable next month — and Uncharted 4 is coming to PC
  • Uber finally recognizes UK driver union in historic agreement
  • SanDisk’s new card reader dock is all I could ever want and more
  • Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer
  • Big Oil and Gas had a no good, very bad day
  • The Boring Company tests its ‘Teslas in Tunnels’ system in Las Vegas
  • Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months to stave off blackouts
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar calls on Justice Department to probe Amazon-MGM deal
  • Of course repairing the new Apple TV remote is harder tha
    • Microsoft’s ‘biggest change’ to Outlook for Windows improves shared calendars 8 hours ago  –  If you’ve ever had to share an Outlook calendar with colleagues, you’ll know how painful it can be when things go wrong. I spent a decade of my professional career in IT support, and shared calendar problems with Outlook for Windows were a daily problem. Microsoft is now promising that it is “dra...
  • OnePlus’ Digital WellPaper visualizes your app usage as a funky live wallpaper
  • What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts 
  • Lime Prime is the scooter company’s new monthly subscription service
  • Clearview AI hit with sweeping legal complaints over controversial face scraping in Europe
  • Google makes it easier to transfer Gmail photos to Google Photos
  • Nintendo’s OLED Switch could come in September
  • Square Enix announces Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate
  • Facebook will no longer stop the spread of a theory that COVID-19 was manufactured
  • LeBron James may have just proved the unannounced Be

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  • Save up to $150 on Beats noise-canceling wireless headphones 6 hours ago  –  Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day for 2021 may happen on June 21st and 22nd, according to Bloomberg. Last year’s Prime member-exclusive shopping holiday was delayed until October due to the pandemic. In years prior, Amazon had hosted Prime Day in the summer. But with Jun...
  • Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial
  • Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (2021) review: victory lap
  • Acer’s Predator Triton 500 SE has a new 16:10 Mini LED display
  • Inside Acer’s ambitious and wonderfully messy plans for 2021
  • Acer’s new SpatialLabs tech brings 3D content to laptop screens
  • Borderlands 3 is getting crossplay support, but not on PlayStation
  • Nintendo is bringing Smash and Splatoon esports to high schools
  • Bird announces its third-generation electric scooter with automatic emergency braking
  • This year’s Pokémon Go Fest is also a music festival
  • Instacart adds faster ‘Priority Delivery’ which is sure to cause headaches for delivery workers 22 minutes ago  –  Instacart In the crowded food- and grocery-delivery space, Instacart is hoping that shaving off a few minutes makes all the difference. To that end, it’s creating a new “priority delivery” option that debuts today in select markets and promises to have orders fulfilled in “as fast as 30 m...
  • Charlie bit us all, if you really think about it
  • Sony’s WF-1000XM4s wireless earbuds leak again with all-new water resistance and ‘V1’ chip
  • Kellogg’s is introducing a cereal robot to make the easiest food to prepare even easier
  • Go read this investigation into the real death toll from the Texas freeze
  • Among Us is free on the Epic Games Store
  • Sonic Colors is getting remastered as Sega announces a handful of new Sonic games
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A7 Lite is coming to the US in June for $159
  • Airbnb tries to cancel Hot Vax Summer by extending party ban until the fall
  • Save up to $150 on Beats noise-canceling wireless head
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