Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company's focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free.
The goal was to allow those users to keep users' actual credit card numbers safe while allowing the option to cut off compa
TikTok rolls out tools to bulk delete and report comments, block users
TikTok today is introducing a feature that will allow creators to deal with online abuse in an easier way. The company is launching new tools that will allow creators to bulk delete comments and block users, instead of having to moderate comments one-by-one. The update may be somewhat controversial
OneNav locates $21M from GV to map our transition to the next generation of GPS
GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. It's now at the heart of modern life: everything from Amazon package deliveries to our cars and trucks to our walks through national parks are cen
Polywork gets $3.5M to blend professional and social networking
Life is complicated and so — increasingly — is work-life. That’s the premise underpinning Polywork, a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson.
It’s announcing a $3.5 million seed round today, led by by Caffeinated Capital’s Ray T
Dooly raises $80M more for its AI tools to help salespeople manage their busywork
Salespeople have more tools than ever these days to help them with their work, whether they are tools to source new leads, keep those leads interested or informed about what’s being sold, track how the sales process is going, manage those relationships once they are secured, or accounting too
Berlin’s Trade Republic nabs $900M led by Sequoia at a $5B+ valuation to take its neobroker app across Europe
Consumers are moving into investing to complement — or in some cases, offset — less favorable returns from things like traditional savings accounts with low interest rates or pensions, and today one of the bigger “neobrokers” in Europe helping to open up that opportunity is
WalletsClub wants to be the ‘Visa for e-wallets’ across the world
Digital payments are going mainstream around the world. By the end of 2020, there were more than 300 mobile money providers with over 100,000 active users, according to a report published by GSMA, an industry association for mobile network operators. Altogether, over 300 million mobile money accoun
&Open raises $7.2M from First Round Capital and LocalGlobe to send gifts at scale
We live in a world where companies have to send out “gifts” to individuals. Chocolate bars. Bottles of wine. You name it. Companies are gifting it. But right now, that operation is buried in a marketing department on a spreadsheet and is mostly pretty disorganized.
A handful of startups
Climate risk platform Cervest raises $30M Series A led by Draper Esprit
Cervest — a startup with a platform that claims to quantify climate risk across multiple decades and threats down to the asset level — has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Previous investors Astanor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital (Chris Sacca) and Future Positive Capital
Uncapped, which provides upfront revenue to digital companies, raises $80M in funding
Buzzy U.S. startup Pipe — which claims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue” — has just raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation. The secret for the hype? It gives SaaS companies a way to get their revenue upfront, by “pairing them with investors on a marketplace that pays a discounted
White Star Capital launches new $50M crypto/blockchain fund backed by Bpifrance, Ubisoft
White Star Capital, better known as a VC firm which, in its time, has backed the likes of Digg, LaunchRock, Meero, Summly, and Tier, among others, is moving into the hot world of crypto and blockchain with a new $50 million Digital Asset Fund.
The special-vehicle fund will specialize in investing i
Virtuo raises $96M for its streamlined take on car rentals
Car ownership has become pricey and untenable in many towns and cities in Europe: Between congestion charges to reduce emissions, parking fees and traffic, many consumers opt instead to use public transportation, two wheels, cabs or their own legs to get around. To add to that mix for longer journe
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming to step down as CEO by end of 2021
Zhang Yiming, the storied co-founder of ByteDance, is stepping down from his role as the CEO and passing the torch to Liang Rubo, another co-founder of the TikTok parent and one of the world’s most valuable internet juggernauts.
In an internal letter to employees, 38-year-old Zhang said he is
Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck can power your home in an outage
The power of a pickup truck is not all about torque, horsepower, towing and hauling. Ford's newest electric F-150 Lightning, which was unveiled Wednesday, is trying to change the meaning of truck power with a system that can provide energy to a customer’s home in the event of an outage.
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