Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform
Expense management has long been a pain point for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and parsing how money is spent on behalf of a company is just too bogged down in legacy software ill-equipped to handle more modern demands. Today, a U.K. startup building solutions to bring t
UTEC launches a new initiative to help deep tech founders commercialize their work
The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) is launching a new program to address a problem the venture capital fund says many deep tech founders face. They may raise pre-seed capital from an incubator or accelerator program, but reach a funding gap before moving on to early-stage rounds.
Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11
Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there's Samsung. The note leads with the big, bold words “Get ready to unfold” and features a pair of flat-colored objects that can reasonably be
Elon Musk: Tesla to open up global charging network to other EVs later this year
Tesla will allow other electric vehicles to access its global network of chargers later this year, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday. The comment follows years of chatter by Musk that signaled the company was amenable to the idea.
Until now, there have never been any details about how or when the compa
Instagram adds new controls for limiting ‘sensitive’ content in the Explore tab
Instagram is giving its users a tiny bit more power to see what they want — and not see what they don’t want — in its content discovery hub. The company introduced a new toggle called “Sensitive Content Control” on Tuesday that allows anyone to screen posts that it thinks coul
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Consumer Reports concerned Tesla uses owners to test unsafe self-driving software
A Tesla in full self-driving mode makes a left turn out of the middle lane on a busy San Francisco street. It jumps in a bus lane where it's not meant to be. It turns a corner and nearly plows into parked vehicles, causing the driver to lurch for the wheel. These scenes have been captured by ca
Pivot Bio rakes in $430M round D as modified microbes prove their worth in agriculture
Pivot Bio makes fertilizer — but not directly. Its modified microorganisms are added to soil and they produce nitrogen that would otherwise have to be trucked in and dumped there. This biotech-powered approach can save farmers money and time and ultimately may be easier on the environment — a h
Brokrete wants to be the ‘Shopify of construction’, raises $3M seed led by Xploration Capital
With the pandemic affecting every aspect of life and industry, it’s no surprise that digitization is coming to construction fast. Construction suppliers are increasingly under the same pressure as other sectors to perform at a higher level. We've seen the rise of companies like Dozer, Ren
Biden taps Google critic to lead the DOJ’s antitrust division
The Biden administration tripled down on its commitment to reining in powerful tech companies Tuesday, proposing committed Big Tech critic Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
Kanter is a lawyer with a long track record of representing smaller companies like Ye
Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’
On Tuesday, R-Zero, a pandemic-era biosafety company, announced the acquisition of CoWorkr — a company that develops room occupancy sensors. The acquisition marks a shift in focus for R-Zero as people return to work, vaccines are rolled out and companies that sprung up in response to the COVI
Netflix says its gaming push will begin with mobile
A report last week hinted at some of Netflix’s gaming ambitions. In its Q2 2021 earnings report, the company confirmed some things. First, Netflix says it “will be primarily focused” on mobile at first, looking to expand on its interactivity projects like Black Mirror Bandersnatch
Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy
A famous poem advises us not to compare ourselves with others, “for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
The same holds true for startup fundraising; the size of your seed round will be determined solely by your company’s immediate needs and the investor
Twitter tests a TweetDeck revamp it hopes to make a subscription product
Twitter announced today it will begin testing a new set of features for TweetDeck, the company’s often-ignored social media dashboard aimed at Twitter’s power users, which Twitter may soon turn into a new subscription service. According to a post from Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpou