Tech
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Pivoting from offline into virtual events for enterprises nets Tame a $5.5M Seed round
In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard...
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Berlin’s Razor Group raises $400M to buy and scale Amazon Marketplace merchants
The market remains very hot for startups building e-commerce empires by consolidating independent third-party merchants that have gained traction on Amazon’s Marketplace,...
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Uber and Arrival partner to create an EV for ride-hail drivers
Arrival, the electric vehicle manufacturer that’s attempting to do away with the assembly line in favor of highly automated microfactories, is partnering...
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445The Daily Crunch: TechCrunch’s parent company sold for $5B, Duolingo’s origin story
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473Ford, BMW lead Solid Power’s $130M Series B round
A Solid Power manufacturing engineer holds two 20 ampere hour (Ah) all solid-state battery cells for the BMW Group and Ford Motor...
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Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation
Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in social tools....
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As companies prioritize diversity, startups are trying to productize diverse hiring
When the iconic American power tools company Stanley Black & Decker began looking for ways to improve the pipeline of diverse candidates...
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Will fintech unicorn Flywire’s proposed IPO reach escape velocity?
It’s a big morning for fintech startups today: Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, has filed to go public. Flywire is...
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Facebook rolls out vaccine finder tool in India, donates $10 million
Facebook has announced a $10 million grant to support emergency response efforts in India and has rolled out its Vaccine Finder tool...
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Wealthsimple raises $610M at a $4B valuation
Canadian fintech giant Wealthsimple has raised a new round of $750 million CAD (~$610 million) at a post-money valuation of $5 billion...