TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. These albums, or “studios” as they’re called, are available to everyone in the group as a way to record and share everyday memories or vlogs in a more creative format than seen in your standa

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Traveloka , Southeast Asia’s leading travel and lifestyle platform, has announced raising $300 million in a funding round led by a private credit fund managed by BlackRock. A consortium of global institutional investors also participated in the funding round that will finance the expansion of Traveloka’s platform and strengthen the company’s capabilities as the world opens up.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town. This lack of access to transportation is in stark contrast to other upward metrics on the African continent, like its growing access to equitable education and healthcare.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Insurance on-blockchain pioneer YAS MicroInsurance seeks to further expand and insure the Web3 economy after raising $4.5 million pre-Series A funding round co-anchored by Noria Capital, ZEMU VC, and JKL Capital. 500 Startups also participated in the funding round, according to the announcement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. But fake and fraudulent ad traffic remains a major problem in the space. Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. And beyond the wasted spend, invalid traffic can inflate metrics, leading brands to misidentify — and misunderstand — customer segments.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today Whatnot ( W20 ) is a lively platform where collectors can buy, sell, go live, and geek out with other like-minded people across a wide variety of product categories. But, like every startup, the founders of Whatnot began with only an idea. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Whatnot Grant LaFontaine to discuss their first five launches.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Recruitment and onboarding for deskless and hourly workers has always been a challenge, and one that startups have taken on in recent years. These employees are often always in demand due to traditionally high turnover rates, and yet, many still rely on paperwork and videos. Desmond Lim, Workstream co-founder and CEO. Image Credits: Workstream. Workstream is one of the startups working on a solution for this problem, in its case, mobile-first hiring and onboarding tools.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. All this M&A activity and repricing in the public insurtech cohort left us wondering about their private peers: Are the same trends at play, and to what extent?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Leading by example. How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them? By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If the CEO can do this, he gives permission for anyone to confess as well,” he states.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When insurtech company Metromile went public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in February last year, it was valued at over $1 billion. A year and five months later, Lemonade acquired the company for less than $145 million. As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Healthcare startup Lissun has announced raising about $1 million in pre-Seed funding led by IvyCapt Ventures and backed by We Founder Circle and Supermorpheus. The funding round, which will help finance the company’s plans to expand its operations in 25 cities in India and 5 new therapeutic areas, was also supported by marquee angel investors, including Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Harsh

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When it comes to the decentralized world of crypto, few single entities loom larger or carry more weight in the industry than exchange behemoth Binance. The blockchain giant processed $34 trillion in trading volume in 2021, it says, and the exchange shows few signs of resting on its laurels as it pursues bold new bets to diversify its business. At the forefront of these changes is Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Southeast Asia’s used car marketplace giant Carro is expanding into the Japanese market through a joint venture with SoftBank Corporation, according to an announcement. The JV will be named Carro Japan Co Ltd and will introduce a full suite of services, such as subscription-based services and car leasing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, home goods and more — is in the balance after the startup failed to close a round of financing, according to a memo the startup sent out to employees. An insider told TechCrunch that the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Martin Majlund , sent termination notices to employees earlier this month after a town hall meeting, during which he revealed that the company was running

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Elev8 Venture Partners , the venture investor backed by India’s leading early-stage platform Venture Catalysts, is launching a $200-million fund that will focus on growth-stage, tech-driven companies in India. The fund will be sector agnostics and intends to invest with a ticket size of $5-15 million in Series B and C rounds, according to the announcement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

There are times in the life of a startup when you don’t really want or need to raise money, but an opportunity comes along that’s so good that you create a brand new round just to be able to bring in a strategic investor. That was the situation Danish animation and motion capture company Rokoko found itself in over the summer. I wrote about its $3 million strategic round that valued the company at $80 million — a round pulled together specifically to let Zepeto buy its way onto Rokok

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Last year we launched the first * Women Engineers in Startups series, and our goal was to encourage more women to consider working at high-growth startups. Why? At YC, most of us have worked at or started startups, and they’ve changed our lives for the better. We’ve seen, firsthand, the impact they can have on one’s life and career.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The IPO market is still frozen like a Nordic lake dotted with fishing huts, but there are signs that a thaw is now in sight. News from Insider indicates that TripActions, a unicorn in the corporate travel and expense category, has filed confidential paperwork to go public. Per the publication, the company is targeting a Q2 2023 public debut at around a $12 billion price tag.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. These let people who are interested in the product see how a function inside an application works as a way to whet the appetite of the potential buyer. Arcade , a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with a simple Chrome extension to build demos quickly that product people can make use of in various settings.

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Founder Bounty

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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