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    How SOSV-backed Achiko pivoted from financial services to health tech during the COVID-19 pandemic – TechCrunch

    Many companies had to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. For SOSV-backed Achiko, this meant shifting its focus from mobile payment services to affordable COVID-19...

    Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less – TechCrunch

    Cendana Capital, a San Francisco-based fund of funds manager, has amassed stakes in more than 100 venture firms since launching in 2010. For the...

    Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as the food deliver market continues to heat up – TechCrunch

    On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in...

    Celonis announces significant partnership with IBM to sell its process mining software – TechCrunch

    Before you can improve a workflow, you have to understand how work advances through a business, which is more complex than you might imagine...

    For Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’ – TechCrunch

    Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving. A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the U.S., and to...

    PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones – TechCrunch

    From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space. Over the past...

    How Big Is Amazon, Really?

    Market size matters, but even small changes have an outsize ripple effect. Source link

    Facebook makes it easier to view a non-algorithmic News Feed – TechCrunch

    Facebook has some thoughts and updates about its News Feed, Siri gets some new voices and Tonal becomes a unicorn. This is your Daily...

    Sarah Kunst will outline how to get ready to fundraise at Early Stage – TechCrunch

    Sarah Kunst, founding partner at Cleo Capital, has worn many hats. She’s been an entrepreneur, served on plenty of boards, is a contributing author...

    Lowkey raises $7 million from a16z to help game streamers capitalize on short-form video – TechCrunch

    While the growth of game-streaming audiences have continued on desktop platforms, the streaming space has felt surprisingly stagnant at times, particularly due to the...

    As Compass downsizes its IPO, signs of weakness appear for high-growth companies – TechCrunch

    On the same day that Deliveroo’s IPO fizzled at the start of trading, Compass announced via a fresh S-1 filing that it will reduce...

    Microsoft wins contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit U.S. Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

    The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it’s won a contract to outfit the United States Army with...

    Facebook says Trump can’t skirt its ban through daughter-in-law’s account – TechCrunch

    Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoted a new interview with the former president on Facebook and Instagram Tuesday, but a workaround to Trump’s ban on...

    Report finds going remote made workplaces more hostile for already marginalized groups – TechCrunch

    The last year wasn’t an easy one for just about anybody, but a new report from Project Include shows that the shift to remote...

    Datapeople announces $8M in raised capital as it works to make recruiting more equitable – TechCrunch

    This morning Datapeople, a startup that sells software designed to make recruiting more equitable, announced that it has raised $8 million across two funding...

    Embedded procurement will make every company its own marketplace – TechCrunch

    Merritt Hummer Contributor Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. In 2019, my colleague Matt...