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What’s up with tiny checks at giant valuations?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Are you a regular...
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Indian food delivery startup Zomato cuts 13% of workforce
Zomato, an India-headquartered food delivery startup, is cutting 13% of its workforce as it looks to reduce cost and tide the coronavirus...
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Singapore-based Intellect wants to lower barriers to mental health support in Asia
Taking care of your emotional wellbeing is as important as physical health, but in Asia, the topic is often stigmatized. Intellect, a...
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437China’s embattled Luckin Coffee adds lifestyle products to its menu
The Luckin saga continues as the Chinese coffee challenger seeks solutions to the undesirable consequences of a $310 million fraud. On Tuesday,...
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Amazon Prime Video to globally premiere 7 Indian movies as theaters remain closed
Amazon has secured rights to premiere seven Indian movies that were initially scheduled for a theatrical release directly on its Prime Video...
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435Immunai wants to map the entire immune system and raised $20 million in seed funding to do it
For the past two years the founding team of Immunai had been working stealthily to develop a new technology to map the...
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405The new documentary ‘Spacedrop’ takes viewers inside a simulated space quarantine
“The first Asian Jew in fake space” — that’s how Josh Burstein introduced himself to me when we hopped on the phone...
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UK femtech startup Astinno, which is working on a wearable to combat hot flushes, picks up grant worth $450k
London-based femtech hardware startup Astinno has picked up an Innovate UK grant worth £360k ($450k) to fund further testing of a wearable...
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93% of Chinese minors are now online
Children and teenagers in China are hyper-connected and using the internet in ways that were unimaginable and inaccessible to earlier generations. As...
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Modulr raises £18.9M for its ‘Payments as a Service’
Modulr, the U.K. fintech that offers ‘Payments as a Service’ as an alternative to commercial and wholesale transaction banking, has secured £18.9...