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    How Shopify aims to level the playing field with its machine learning-driven model of lending – TechCrunch

    Shopify is widely known for giving independent merchants a platform to start, run, market and manage their businesses. But over the past 5 years, the...

    Gamified connecting rowing machine maker Ergatta raises $30M – TechCrunch

    As the world takes its first steps back to relative normalcy, there remains a major question mark around how profoundly our day-to-day is going...

    Kaia Health grabs $75M on surging interest in its virtual therapies for chronic pain and COPD – TechCrunch

    New York headquartered Kaia Health, which offers AI-assisted digital therapies via a mobile app for chronic pain related to musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders and for...

    Botpress nabs $15M Series A to help developers build conversational apps – TechCrunch

    Botpress, a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by...

    Revel launches an all-electric, rideshare service with a fleet of 50 Teslas – TechCrunch

    Revel started out in 2018 with shared, dockless e-mopeds in Brooklyn, which later expanded to  Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and a handful of other...

    What’s the latest on DACA? – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Danny and Chris...

    Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’ – TechCrunch

    Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s...

    Netflix launches its shuffle feature, now called ‘Play Something,’ to users worldwide – TechCrunch

    Netflix today is officially launching a feature that will make it easier to find something to watch when you’re stuck browsing and unable to...

    Here’s Samsung’s new flagship laptop series, the Galaxy Book Pro – TechCrunch

    Following the customary weeks of leaks, Samsung just announced a couple of new additions to its laptop line. The Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy...

    Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator launches 12 new startups at demo day – TechCrunch

    The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day today. ERA has thus far...

    Yousician raises $28M to make music education more accessible – TechCrunch

    By his own admission, Chris Thür wasn’t the most obvious person to start a music education startup. Thür (previously a laser researcher) recalled an early...

    Opsera raises $15M for its continuous DevOps orchestration platform – TechCrunch

    Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round...

    OpenClassrooms raises $80 million for its online education platform – TechCrunch

    French startup OpenClassrooms has raised an $80 million Series C funding round led by Lumos Capital Group. The company operates an online education platform...

    Near acquires the location data company formerly known as UberMedia – TechCrunch

    Data intelligence company Near is announcing the acquisition of another company in the data business — UM. In some ways, this echoes Near’s acquisition of Teemo last...

    CES will return to Las Vegas in 2022 – TechCrunch

    It was, I admit, slightly strange not feeling the extreme anxiety over the holidays at having to return to Las Vegas this past year....