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    SoftBank-backed Indian insurance platform Policybazaar raises $75 million – TechCrunch

    Policybazaar has raised $75 million as the Indian online insurance platform looks to expand its presence in UAE and Middle East. Sarbvir Singh, chief executive...

    Writing helper Copy.ai raises $2.9M in a round led by Craft Ventures – TechCrunch

    Copy.ai, a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by Craft Ventures....

    The Voter Formation Project puts an experimental spin on reaching Black and brown first-time voters – TechCrunch

    Victories notwithstanding, the 2020 election blew up many of the assumptions Democrats have long held about the American electorate. In Florida, Arizona and elsewhere, Latino...

    Stack Overflow adds a free tier to its fast-growing Teams service – TechCrunch

    Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP...

    New Relic expands its AIOps services – TechCrunch

    In recent years, the publicly traded observability service New Relic started adding more machine learning-based tools to its platform for AI-assisted incident response when...

    Pinduoduo steals Alibaba’s crown with 788M annual active users – TechCrunch

    For the first time, Pinduoduo has surpassed Alibaba in annual active users, marking the Chinese e-commerce upstart’s meteoric rise over the course of five...

    Swell Energy’s new deal in New York shows how the company plans to spend the $450 million it’s raising – TechCrunch

    Back in December, Swell Energy said it would be raising $450 million to support the development of distributed power projects in three states. Now,...

    OctoML raises $28M Series B for its machine learning acceleration platform – TechCrunch

    OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project, today announced...

    Unagi expands e-scooter subscriptions with $10.5M in new funding – TechCrunch

    Unagi, the startup behind the portable, design-centric electric scooters, is launching its subscription service to six more U.S. cities in an expansion fueled by...

    Digitail, an app vets and their customers, raises $2.5M Seed round led by byFounders – TechCrunch

    Digitail, a cloud service for veterinary surgeries and customers, has raised $2.5M in a Seed round led by byFounders and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI...

    Cohere raises $3.1 million for its remote control solution for web apps – TechCrunch

    Existing remote desktop solutions like LogMeIn and TeamViewer can be complicated to set up and use, and can feel dated. A new startup called...

    Vulcan Cyber raises $21M Series B for its vulnerability remediation platform – TechCrunch

    Tel Aviv-based Vulcan Cyber, a cybersecurity startup that helps businesses prioritize and fix security vulnerabilities, today announced that it has raised a $21 million...

    PayFit raises $107 million for its payroll and HR platform – TechCrunch

    French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s...

    Incredibuild gets $140M to speed up games and other software development with distributed processing tech – TechCrunch

    Many of us are working in distributed environments these days, and in the best scenarios, it might actually have improved rather than impeded our...

    2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science

    Russell Impagliazzo, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, said the LLL algorithm has also led to what is...

    Capdesk raises £5m Series A extension led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures – TechCrunch

    Capdesk, an equity management platform, has raised a £5m Series A extension led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and MiddleGame Ventures. This followed a...