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India’s Refyne raises $82 million to help workers get faster access to wages

India’s Refyne raises $82 million to help workers get f...

Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its pr...

Technology
Smart streets: AI, robotics for smart traffic management

Smart streets: AI, robotics for smart traffic management

Indian-born engineer architects the first autonomous traffic management platform...

Startups
Despite blockchain gaming’s play-to-earn angle, I prefer to pay

Despite blockchain gaming’s play-to-earn angle, I prefe...

I can't get that hyped about blockchain gaming — I want to have fun, not monetiz...

Blockchain
Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulation, opportunities and NFT hype

Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulatio...

There’s still a haze of uncertainty surrounding blockchain games, so we reached ...

Startups
Harry’s files paperwork for fresh $139.9M financing

Harry’s files paperwork for fresh $139.9M financing

Harry’s goal since birth was to target incumbents in the global shave market, wh...

Startups
Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hi...

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important start...

Startups
TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative fi...

You don't need to be a scientist to understand the impacts of factory farming: i...

Startups
A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants

A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants

Leaders need to get better at understanding and articulating not just why equity...

Startups
Back Market reaches $5.7B valuation for its refurbished device marketplace

Back Market reaches $5.7B valuation for its refurbished...

French startup Back Market has raised another mega round of funding. In May, the...

Startups
Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo culturing

Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo ...

Adelaide-based startup Fertilis is the latest to join a wave of companies worldw...

Startups
Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store

Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescree...

A new social app, Locket, popped to the top of the App Store charts in recent da...

Startups
Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

Twig, a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers wi...

Startups
Fast-charge EV battery maker StoreDot pulls in $80M led led by Vietnam’s VinFast

Fast-charge EV battery maker StoreDot pulls in $80M led...

StoreDot, the Israeli next-generation battery technology startup touting an “ext...

Startups
Healthcare tech platform Doctolib acquires encryption startup Tanker

Healthcare tech platform Doctolib acquires encryption s...

French startup Doctolib is expected to close the acquisition of Tanker today bas...

Startups
The SPAC boom was a failure, yeah?

The SPAC boom was a failure, yeah?

The results are proving to be pure trash so frequently once the hype has died do...

Startups
Turo’s S-1 filing shows that unicorns can slingshot out of the pandemic

Turo’s S-1 filing shows that unicorns can slingshot out...

The Turo income statement, once we beat back some non-cash costs muddying its bo...