TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 early-bird price extended for one more day
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Credit Karma reinvents cash-back rewards with instant payback
Credit Karma Money, a new checking and savings account from the company best known for its credit monitoring service, recently launched a significant new feature. Called Instant Karma, the program rewards users by randomly refunding purchases. So far, since launching the feature, Credit Karma says
To buy time for a failing startup, recreate the engineering process
In non-aerobatic fixed-wing aviation, spins are an emergency. If you don't have spin recovery training, you can easily make things worse, dramatically increasing your chances of crashing. Despite the life-and-death consequences, licensed amateur pilots in the United States are not required to t
$99 passes to TC Disrupt 2021 disappear next week
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Tiger Global is betting that more schools are going to share future student earnings
Income-share agreements, or ISAs, are a way to bring flexibility to the often steep financial costs of higher education. The financial model allows a student to learn at zero upfront cost, and then pay any costs through a percentage of future income over time.
While the model has caught fire from a
Twitch UX teardown: The Anchor Effect and de-risking decisions
Twitch evidently has no issues getting people to spend time on its platform — even politicians can draw huge crowds by streaming themselves playing games. But monetizing video content is hard, and Twitch has missed revenue targets for the last few years.
So how does Twitch make money? And more im
Startup employees should pay attention to Biden’s capital gains tax plans
The Biden Administration has reportedly proposed significant changes to the capital gains tax, aiming to target the wealthiest Americans to help fund his historic aid programs.
If the current proposal goes into effect, it will have an impact on startup employees who aren’t (yet) wealthy. And
SpaceX might try to fly the first Starship prototype to successfully land a second time
SpaceX is fresh off a high for its Starship spacecraft development program, but according to CEO Elon Musk, it’s already looking ahead to potentially repeating its latest success with an unplanned early reusability experiment. Earlier this week, SpaceX flew the SN15 (i.e. 15th prototype) of i
5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO
Robotic process automation (RPA) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in the last year, with startups, acquisitions and IPOs all coming together in a flurry of market activity. It all seemed to culminate with UiPath’s IPO last month. The company that appeared to come out of nowhere i
GajiGesa, a fintech focused on Indonesian workers, adds strategic investors and launches new app for micro-SMEs
GajiGesa, a fintech startup that provides earned wage access (EWA) and other services for workers in Indonesia, has added strategic investors to help it launch new services and expand its user base. Its new backers include OCBC NISP Ventura, the venture capital arm of one of Indonesia's largest
Juul inventor’s Myst lands funding as institutional investors turn to China’s e-cigs
Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude is changing as China sets in motion its strictest ever regulation on e
A conversation with Bison Trails, the AWS-like service inside of Coinbase
Coinbase shares tumbled today to their lowest point since the company began trading publicly on April 14. The market often moves in mysterious ways, but several drivers could be at play, including Coinbase’s high opening price at the time of its direct listing, its reliance on margins that ar
SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot
SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia
Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B for Divvy?
As expected, Bill.com is buying Divvy, the Utah-based corporate spend management startup that competes with Brex, Ramp and Airbase. The total purchase price of around $2.5 billion is substantially above the company’s roughly $1.6 billion post-money valuation that Divvy set during its $165 mi