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    Amazon announces $250 million venture fund for Indian startups – TechCrunch

    Amazon on Thursday announced a $250 million venture fund to invest in startups and entrepreneurs focusing on digitization of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The...

    IBM acquires Italy’s MyInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools – TechCrunch

    Automation has become a big theme in enterprise IT, with organizations using RPA, no-code and low-code tools, and other  technology to speed up work...

    Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routable’s $30M Series B – TechCrunch

    We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services,...

    Mark Zuckerberg is urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children.

    An international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups called on Instagram on Thursday to scrap its plans to develop a version of the...

    SoftBank in talks to invest up to $500 million in Swiggy – TechCrunch

    SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is in advanced stages of talks to invest up to half a billion dollars into food delivery startup Swiggy, two...

    Cado Security locks in $10M for its cloud-native digital forensics platform – TechCrunch

    As computing systems become increasingly bigger and more complex, forensics have become an increasingly important part of how organizations can better secure them. As...

    Flipkart to acquire online travel firm Cleartrip – TechCrunch

    Flipkart said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire online travel firm Cleartrip as the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm looks to expand its offerings in...

    Philippines ‘buy now, pay later’ startup Plentina raises $2.2M seed round – TechCrunch

    Plentina co-founders Kevin Gabayan and Earl Valencia E-wallets are rapidly gaining popularity in the Philippines, overtaking credit cards, which have a penetration rate of under...

    Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $67M – TechCrunch

    A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing...

    Cloud kitchen startup JustKitchen to go public on the TSX Venture Exchange – TechCrunch

    JustKitchen, a cloud kitchen startup, will start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Venture Exchange on Thursday morning. It is doing a direct...

    ‘It’s a Roller-Coaster Ride’: Global Chip Shortage Is Making Industries Sweat

    Dan Rozycki, the president of a small engineering firm, worries about what a global semiconductor shortage could mean for curing concrete.Mr. Rozycki’s company, Transtec...

    Challenger bank N26 to offer insurance products – TechCrunch

    Fintech startup N26 is launching N26 Insurance as it plans to offer insurance products that you can access from the company’s mobile app and...

    Atrium, which help sales managers more easily see who is (or isn’t) crushing it, just raised $13.5 million – TechCrunch

    There’s no shortage of data-driven sales management tools in the market. Naturally, Atrium, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based company cofounded by serial entrepreneur Pete Kazanjy,...

    Coinbase goes public – TechCrunch

    Coinbase makes an impressive public debut, Dell spins out VMware and Ford announces a new hands-free driving system. This is your Daily Crunch for...

    Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M – TechCrunch

    Pico, a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money and manage their customer data, announced today that it has...

    Hear how to raise big funding (and use it well) from FirstMark’s Rick Heitzmann and Orchard’s Court Cunningham – TechCrunch

    Orchard, founded in 2017, was relatively early to the proptech industry. The company, originally called Perch, focused on dual-trackers, which are folks who are...