Equity Monday: More venture money for Europe, and public companies blast off
And welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that...
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Africa Hotel Performance Update - STR
Africa's destinations have been some of the hardest hit in terms of hotel occupancy. The region closed 2020 with weekly occupancy trending between 20%-25%, and more recently...
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Calling Zagreb Investors: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC
TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of investors in Zagreb will capture how Croatia is...
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'Buy now, pay later' giant Klarna has tripled its valuation to $31 billion, making it Europe's most valuable private startup
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski David M. Benett/Getty Images for Klarna Payments firm Klarna has raised $1 billion in new funding, tripling its valuation to $31...
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Clue gets FDA clearance to launch a digital contraceptive
Clue , an early pioneer in the femtech category with a well-regarded period-tracking app that's used by around 13 million people, is getting ready to launch a digital...
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Klarna confirms new $31B valuation
Klarna , the Swedish buy now, pay later behemoth and upstart bank, has raised $1 billion in new funding at a post-money valuation of $31 billion. That sees the company retain...
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Istanbul's Dream Games snaps up $50M and launches its first game, the puzzle-based Royal Match
On the back of Zynga acquiring Turkey's Peak Games for $1.8 billion last year and then following it up with another gaming acquisition in the country, Turkey has been making a...
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Lime unveils new ebike as part of $50 million investment to expand to more 25 cities
Lime said Monday it has allocated $50 million towards its bike-share operation, an investment that has been used to develop a new ebike and will fund its expansion this year to...
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Russia's national payment system Mir to launch Apple Pay support
Mir cards, developed by Russia in response to Western sanctions, will finally become available in Apple Pay. The mobile payment platform promoted by the US tech giant Apple...
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6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021
While Denmark and Copenhagen don't often come up as a destination for European startups, it has a thriving local tech scene that's home to some of the better startup...
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Apple alum's jobs app for India's workers raises $12.5 million
A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 million, just five months after...
A Black manager at Amazon Web Services is suing her own employer, alleging...
Summary List Placement A Black senior manager at Amazon's cloud unit filed a lawsuit against the company and three current or former executives on Monday, alleging racial and...
Daily Crunch: Klarna valued at $31B
A challenger bank raises funding at a massive valuation, Instagram adds Live Rooms and Google updates Workspace. This is your Daily Crunch for March 1, 2021. The big story...
Dow soars 603 points amid risk-on rally as reopening stocks surge
Summary List Placement The Dow soared 603 points on Monday as a risk-on rally was fueled by a surge in reopening stocks. Johnson and Johnson began the distribution of its...
Cybersecurity execs from Visa, Netflix, Uber, and more share their...
Summary List Placement While chief information security officers closely guard their companies' biggest secrets from hackers, they're happy to share their actual defense...
Goldman Sachs restarts cryptocurrency trading and will begin trading bitcoin...
Summary List Placement Goldman Sachs has restarted its cryptocurrency trading desk amid a boom in bitcoin, which saw its price rise 65% year-to-date and 470% in the past year...
A Clubhouse feature that power-users have been begging for is finally coming...
Summary List Placement Clubhouse says it's rolling out a new feature that will let users start their own "clubs," or interest-based groups that other users can join, from...
Murmur, still in private beta, wants to help startups make private work...
As building in public continues to gain popularity with early-stage startup founders, Murmur, coming out of stealth today, wants to leverage that natural transparency to a...
CEO Orlando Zayas was rejected for a Gap credit card in 2008. Now, his...
Summary List Placement One out of five credit card applications were rejected in October, double the rate from before the pandemic, according to the Federal Reserve. Orlando...
How companies like Walmart and Best Buy have curtailed their ambitions to...
Summary List Placement The pandemic is redefining what what health and wellness means for Americans. After nearly a year of extended isolation and more than 500,000 deaths from...