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    Avant doubles down on digital banking with Zero Financial acquisition – TechCrunch

    Avant, an online lender that has raised over $600 million in equity, announced today that it has acquired Zero Financial and its neobank brand,...

    Investment app for millennials Groww raises $83 million at over $1 billion valuation – TechCrunch

    More than 200 million people in India transact money digitally, but fewer than 30 million invest in mutual funds and stocks. An Indian startup that...

    Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future – TechCrunch

    Plaid, a unicorn that helps connect consumers’ bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $425 million Series D, it announced this morning. TechCrunch...

    Blue dot raises $32M for AI that helps businesses manage their tax accounting – TechCrunch

    Artificial intelligence has become a fundamental cornerstone of how a lot of business software works, providing a useful boost in reading, understanding, and using...

    Putting Zagreb on the TechCrunch map — TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021 – TechCrunch

    TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few...

    Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?

    Clue allows women to do exactly that with a few taps on their smartphone. Today, the company has a lot of competition in the...

    Berlin’s Bryter raises $66M more to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the U.S. – TechCrunch

    No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction among enterprises, where employees — strictly speaking, non-technical, but still using software every day —...

    Former Amazon exec gives Chinese firms a tool to fight cyber threats – TechCrunch

    China is pushing forward an internet society where economic and public activities increasingly take place online. In the process, troves of citizen and government...

    Patreon triples valuation to $4 billion in new raise – TechCrunch

    Patreon has tripled its valuation to $4 billion in a $155 million funding round led by Tiger Global, the company confirmed to the Wall...

    Facebook faces questions over data breach – TechCrunch

    European regulators have questions about a Facebook data breach, Clubhouse adds payments and a robotics company has SPAC plans. This is your Daily Crunch...

    Signal tests payments in the UK using MobileCoin – TechCrunch

    Encrypted chat app Signal is adding payments to the services it provides, a long-expected move and one the company is taking its time on....

    Lawmakers press Instagram for details on its plans for kids – TechCrunch

    A group of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Mark Zuckerberg this week to press the CEO on his plans to curate a version of Instagram...

    Coinbase’s monster Q1 in context – TechCrunch

    The crypto company just crushed the first three months of 2021 In the first quarter of 2021, American consumer cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase grew sharply,...

    Rapid raises $12M for its manufacturing robotics – TechCrunch

    Bay Area-based Rapid Robotics today announced a $12 million Series A. The new round, led by NEA, brings the company’s total funding up to...

    Putting Belfast on the TechCrunch map — TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021 – TechCrunch

    TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few...

    New Jersey announces $10M seed fund aimed at Black and Latinx founders – TechCrunch

    Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create...