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    Apple launches the ‘Apple Teacher Portfolio recognition, updates Schoolwork and Classroom apps – TechCrunch

    Apple this morning announced a handful of education-related updates to its suite of classroom apps as well as a new recognition for teachers, called...

    After its near-death experience, AR pioneer Blippar is back with $5M in funding and a B2B model – TechCrunch

    Augmented Reality pioneer Blippar – which has had a tortuous history after early investors pulled out and the company had to scramble for new...

    Arcadia steps in to Texas’ startup energy market with the acquisition of Real Simple Energy – TechCrunch

    On the third greatest television show of all time (sorry Rolling Stone), one of Texas’ most famous fictional football players once said, “When all...

    User Interviews, the CRM for qualitative user research, raises $10 million Series A – TechCrunch

    User Interviews, the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed company that has built a CRM for product developers to get user feedback, has closed on a $10...

    Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers – TechCrunch

    After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return...

    Trace announces $8M seed to help companies coordinate budgets – TechCrunch

    Trace, an early startup that wants to bring a taste of SaaS to the budgeting side of the house, announced an $8 million seed...

    Customer data platform ActionIQ extends its latest funding round to $100M – TechCrunch

    ActionIQ, which helps companies use their customer data to deliver personalized experiences, is announcing that it has extended its Series C funding, bringing the...

    Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it – TechCrunch

    In a recent interview discussing Bill Gates’ recent book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster“, the Microsoft and Breakthrough Energy founder (and the world’s...

    Planting seed investments on tech’s frontiers nets KdT Ventures $50 million for its latest fund – TechCrunch

    Like other venture investors over the past year, Cain McClary, co-founder of the investment firm KdT Ventures, recently made the jump to Austin. But...

    Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus – TechCrunch

    Hopin, a unicorn best known for its online events-hosting service, announced this morning that it has acquired two more companies. The smaller concerns, Jamm...

    Telegram raises $150M from Mubadala and Abu Dhabi CP via pre-IPO convertible bonds – TechCrunch

    Messaging platform Telegram, which recently passed 500 million monthly active users but still isn’t monetizing all the digital chatter it hosts — has taken...

    Orca Security raises $210M Series C at a unicorn valuation – TechCrunch

    Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a $210...

    What’s Good for the Ocean May Also Be Good for Business

    Others, too, see the value of working with industry groups. Whale Safe is an initiative from the University of California Santa Barbara to help...

    ServiceNow takes RPA plunge by acquiring India-based startup Intellibot – TechCrunch

    ServiceNow became the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge when it announced it was acquiring Intellibot, an RPA startup based...

    Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data – TechCrunch

    Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social...

    Ghana’s Redbird raises $1.5M seed to expand access to rapid medical testing in sub-Saharan Africa – TechCrunch

    For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be...