Lime adds shared electric mopeds to the mix
Lime is adding electric mopeds — painted in the company’s signature green — to its micromobility platform as the startup aims to own the spectrum of inner city travel from jaunts to the corner store to longer distance trips up to five miles.
Lime said Wednesday it plans to launch as many
Gardin raises $1.2M pre-seed to use ‘optical phenotyping’ tech to improve food production
Gardin, a 'deep tech' hardware and software startup developing optical phenotyping technology and analytics to optimise food production, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding.
Leading the round is LDV Capital, with participation from Seedcamp, and MMC Ventures. A number of angel inves
Corporate card startup Mooncard challenges American Express in France with miles
French startup Mooncard is partnering with Flying Blue to offer Air France miles to its customers. This is the first time you can earn miles with a payment card in France that isn't an American Express card.
Mooncard provides corporate payment cards to streamline your expenses. Most companies i
Joanne Chen just became the first woman GP at Foundation Capital since founder Kathryn Gould
Joanne Chen just became the second female general partner in the history of the now 26-year-old, Silicon Valley venture firm, Foundation Capital.
Were she still alive, Foundation’s founder, Kathryn Gould, would undoubtedly cheer the development.
Known for her big personality,
SaaS startup studio eFounders launches a fintech startup studio
eFounders is expanding its focus by creating a second startup studio called Logic Founders. This time, Logic Founders is going to focus on fintech startups exclusively. Camille Tyan (pictured above) is going to lead the new studio.
Over the past ten years, eFounders has launched dozens of software-
ByteDance is cutting jobs in India amid prolonged TikTok ban
Chinese internet giant ByteDance has told employees in India that it is reducing the size of its team in the country after New Delhi retained ban on TikTok and other Chinese apps last week, said a source familiar with the matter and an internal memo obtained by technewss. After the publication of
Will this time be any different for Twitter?
As Twitter seems to buy its way into competing with Clubhouse and Substack, one wonders whether the beleaguered social media company is finally ready to move past its truly awful track record of seizing opportunities.
Twitter’s pace of product ambition has certainly seemed to speed in the pas
Sila Nanotechnologies raises $590M to fund battery materials factory
Sila Nanotechnologies, a Silicon Valley battery materials company, has spent years developing technology designed to pack more energy into a cell at a lower cost — an end game that has helped it lock in partnerships with Amperex Technology Limited as well as automakers BMW and Daimler.
Now, Sila
Daily Crunch: Calendly valued at $3B
A popular scheduling startup raises a big funding round, Twitter makes a newsletter acquisition and Beyond Meat teams up with PepsiCo. This is your Daily Crunch for January 26, 2021.
The big story: Calendly valued at $3B
Calendly, which helps users schedule and confirm meeting times
Apple just had its best quarter in India
When Apple reports its earnings on Wednesday, you can expect mentions of India on the call.
Apple shipped more than 1.5 million iPhone units in India in the quarter that ended in December, up 100% year-on-year, making this its best quarter in the world's largest smartphone market to date, accor
ClassDojo’s second act comes with first profits
ClassDojo's first eight years as an edtech consumer startup could look like failure: zero revenue; no paid users; and a team that hasn't aggressively grown in years. But the company, which helps parents and teachers communicate about students, has raised tens of millions in venture capital
The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder
June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life.
At 11:30 a.m., a press release hit the wire announcing that the cybersecurity company I had spent more than eight years building was being acquired by a larger cybersecurity player.
What's not to love about a suc
‘Anti-superficial’ dating app S’More raises $2.1M
S’More, a dating app that’s focused on helping users find more meaningful relationships, announced today that it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding.
S’More (short for “something more”) ensures that users can’t focus on physical appearance, because photos are
Apple says iOS 14.4 fixes three security bugs ‘actively exploited’ by hackers
Apple has released iOS 14.4 with security fixes for three vulnerabilities, said to be under active attack by hackers.
The technology giant said in its security update pages for iOS and iPadOS 14.4 that the three bugs affecting iPhones and iPads “may have been actively exploited.” Detail