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    Firefly Aerospace raises $75M Series A at a $1B+ valuation, plus $100M in secondary sale – TechCrunch

    Firefly Aerospace has raised a total of $175 million, across a $75 million Series A round that valued the company north of $1 billion,...

    Tesla taps tiny startup’s tech to build cheaper, cleaner batteries – TechCrunch

    When Elon Musk stood on stage at Tesla’s Battery Day in September and promised to cut lithium-ion battery prices in half, he claimed some...

    Twitter acquires distraction-free reading service Scroll to beef up its subscription product – TechCrunch

    Twitter this morning announced it’s acquiring Scroll, a subscription service that offers readers a better way to read through long-form content on the web,...

    Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million – TechCrunch

    An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round...

    Persona lands $50M for identity verification after seeing 10x YoY revenue growth – TechCrunch

    The identity verification space has been heating up for a while and the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated demand with more people transacting online. Persona,...

    WorkBoard raises $75M as the OKR-focused startup bets on a growing economy, changes to business culture – TechCrunch

    This morning WorkBoard, a software startup that sells software designed to help other companies plan, announced that it has raised a $75 million Series...

    Starboard Value puts Box on notice that it’s looking to take over board – TechCrunch

    Activist investor Starboard Value is clearly. fed up with Box and it let the cloud content management know it in no uncertain terms in...

    Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A – TechCrunch

    Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion...

    India grants approval for 5G trials, avoids Chinese firms – TechCrunch

    Indian telecom ministry on Tuesday said it has granted several telecom service providers permission to conduct a six-month trial for the use and application...

    Acronis raises $250M at a $2.5B+ valuation to double down on cyber protection services – TechCrunch

    As cybersecurity continues to grow in profile amid an increasingly complex and dangerous landscape of malicious activity, a cyber security vendor that specializes in...

    alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the unbanked, raises $5.5M – TechCrunch

    It looks like everyone and their mother is trying to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. Earlier this year we wrote about Nubank’s $400 million...

    Berlin’s Razor Group raises $400M to buy and scale Amazon Marketplace merchants – TechCrunch

    The market remains very hot for startups building e-commerce empires by consolidating independent third-party merchants that have gained traction on Amazon’s Marketplace, and in...

    Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World

    Mr. Donaldson declined to be interviewed. A representative for him declined to address the working conditions at his companies but said of the videos...

    Apollo to focus on commerce, content and betting with new Yahoo business – TechCrunch

    With Verizon’s long-anticipated sale of its media business now finally in progress — by way of a deal, announced earlier today, with private equity...

    Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try – TechCrunch

    Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190...

    How Duolingo became fluent in monetization – TechCrunch

    As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers...