Startups

Okteto, a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with existing investor

Paying bills is never easy, but the last couple years of hardship have made it even tougher. Promise works with utilities and government agencies to provide flexibility in payments for people who can’t cover their whole water or electricity bill at once. The company has seen enormous growth o

While there are positives to being a renter — think no maintenance headaches — many renters still feel like they are essentially throwing money away every month when they make their rent payments. One startup, New Jersey-based Piñata, is out to make renters feel rewarded and help build

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro's recent fundraising in the space. There's now yet another example of this trend in the shape of HUBUC. Billing itself as “AWS for financial services” the startup — which emerged from Ba

Meet Specify, a startup that is creating a common language for Figma and GitHub. Specify acts as a central repository and API for your design tokens and assets. In other words, designers can update canonical Figma files, and changes will be reflected in GitHub repositories. The startup raised a $4.

French startup Finary has raised a $9 million Series A round (€8 million). The company has built a comprehensive aggregator so that wealthy individuals can get the full picture when it comes to tracking wealth. And that means that Finary isn't restricted to bank accounts. You can track a lot

Online advertising is generally terrible and our expectation that “information should be free” has tragically even ended up powering disinformation-filled social networks like Facebook. Many companies have tried and failed to turn advertising into a way to power good causes. What is to

India's Niyo has raised $100 million in a new financing round as the consumer-facing neobank platform looks to add lending and insurance to its offerings and make deeper inroads in the world's second largest internet market. Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered start

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 23, 2022! There is so much to get to today I won't slow us down apart from saying that our mobility-

Share sell-offs continued today in the wake of public companies' earnings reports, proving especially significant amongst firms that benefited from the pandemic. While new and established public companies in market categories like software, fintech, gaming and social media witnessed significan

COVID, supply chain issues, labor shortages, Amazon. Take your pick. The reasons for getting excited about logistics robotics are numerous and growing. RightHand Robotics had already amassed its share of buzz well before this whole pandemic thing really accelerated things, raising a fair amount fro

??Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,”

Before the pandemic, I traveled a lot for work. My suitcase packing list, honed over the years, was pretty much set in stone. Backbone’s iPhone gaming controller is one of a few new things in recent years to elbow its way onto that list. A damn solid gaming experience on the go, it’s wo

Going viral is the dream, but most projects need a little push. Mariusz G?siewski, Google's CEE Mobile Gaming Lead, compares going viral to sightings of the mythical Yeti, the legendary snow creature that allegedly roams the Himalayas. “Many more people are talking about it t