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Equity Monday: Kingsoft Cloud, Shiprocket, and who wants to make a contrarian investment?
Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Another weekend at home,...
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India’s logistics aggregator Shiprocket raises $13M to expand overseas
Shiprocket, a New Delhi-based logistics aggregator that works with direct-to-consumer sellers including several social media influencers, has raised $13 million in a...
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Balderton Capital backs Primer, a fintech helping merchants consolidate the payments stack
Primer, a U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future,...
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JobHopin, a startup that wants to make job hunting in Southeast Asia easier, raises $2.45 million Series A
JobHopin, a Vietnam-based startup building an automated job-recruitment platform for Southeast Asia, announced today that it has closed a $2.45 million Series...
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White House reportedly in talks with Intel, TSMC to build advanced chip foundries in the U.S.
White House officials are talking to Intel and TSMC about building semiconductor foundries in the United States, according to a Wall Street...
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Vista Partners founder calls for a fintech revolution to help pandemic-hit, minority-owned small businesses
The head of what is arguably private equity’s most successful technology investment firm — Vista Equity Partners — made a rare appearance...
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Seven viral futures
Jon EvansContributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and...
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Sequoia’s Roelof Botha is more optimistic about startups today than he was a year ago
“I just think change unfairly favors the startup, the nimble small company,” says Roelof Botha. The Sequoia partner, whose portfolio includes Unity,...
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Original Content podcast: ‘Upload’ is a cheerful show about a nightmarish future
“Upload” feels like a slight, funny show — until you realize that without the jokes, the story would be unwatchably bleak. The...
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Tesla sues Alameda County to force California factory reopening
Tesla filed a lawsuit Saturday against Alameda County in an effort to invalidate orders that have prevented the automaker from reopening its...