Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over
Tech companies in Silicon Valley, the geography, have had an incredible year. But one indicator points to longer-term changes. The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. A big new analysis by AngelList showed aggregate IRR of 19.4% per year on
Analytics as a service: Why more enterprises should consider outsourcing
With an increasing number of enterprise systems, growing teams, a rising proliferation of the web and multiple digital initiatives, companies of all sizes are creating loads of data every day. This data contains excellent business insights and immense opportunities, but it has become impossible for
Daily Crunch: Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach
Apple faces an antitrust complaint in Europe, TikTok has a new CEO and YouTube TV disappears from Roku. This is your Daily Crunch for April 30, 2021.
Also, this is my last day at technewss, and therefore my last day writing The Daily Crunch. It’s been a blast rounding up the news for all of
What3Words sent a legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative
A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which What3Words claims violate its copyright.
Aaron Toponce, a systems administrator at XMission, received a let
How UK-based Lendable is powering fintechs across emerging markets
What moves the needle for digital lenders is serving loans to their respective customers. But where does this money come from? The pool is usually equity or debt. While some lenders use the former, it can be seen as folly because, over time, the founders tend to lose ownership of their businesses a
Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
Following a controversial ban on political discussions earlier this week, Basecamp employees are heading for the exits. The company employs around 60 people, and roughly a third of the company appears to have accepted buyouts to leave, many citing new company policies.
On Monday, Basecamp CEO Jason
How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform
Many fintech startups have tried to become a market-maker between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: How do you get the investors to show up? It's hard enough to get retail investors, but family offices and other large check writers are
Facebook is buying the developer behind VR shooter ‘Onward’
After a steady stream of studio acquisitions in late 2019 and early 2020, Facebook has been a little quieter in recent months when its came to bulking up its VR content arm.
Today, the social media giant breaks that stream, announcing their acquisition of Downpour Interactive, the developer of the
Amid the IPO gold rush, how should we value fintech startups?
If there has ever been a golden age for fintech, it surely must be now. As of Q1 2021, the number of fintech startups in the U.S. crossed 10,000 for the first time ever — well more than double that if you include EMEA and APAC. There are now three fintech companies worth more than $100 billion (P
Roc Nation’s VC Neil Sirni lays out his investment strategy
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation announced in 2017 that it was forming a venture investment arm called Arrive. And the firm has been busy since then — co-founder and president Neil Sirni said Arrive has made 29 investments thus far.
At the same time, Sirni hasn’t really said much about those invest
Y Combinator-backed Uiflow wants to accelerate no-code enterprise app creation
technewss recently caught up with recent Y Combinator graduate Uiflow, a startup that is building a no-code enterprise app creation service.
If you are thinking wait, don’t a number of companies already do that?, the answer is yes. But what Quickbase, Smartsheet and others are working on is
ByteDance CFO assumes role as new TikTok CEO
Eight months after former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quit in the midst of a full-court press from the Trump administration against the Chinese-owned social media giant, TikTok finally has a new permanent leader.
ByteDance’s recently hired CFO Shouzi Chew will be assuming the role as TikTok CEO wh
Riot Games updates its privacy notice to start developing voice comms moderation
Anyone who has played a video game with voice chat in the past decade knows that there is some risk involved. You might be greeted by friendly teammates, but you may also hear some of the most toxic language you’ve ever heard in your life.
Riot Games, the game developer behind ultra popular t
Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder
Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba's fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cloud hosting company. He's acquiring Blade (and Shadow) through his investment fund Jezby Ve