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    LatAm corporate spend-management startup Clara raises $3.5M, comes out of stealth – TechCrunch

    This morning Clara, a corporate spend-management startup focused on the Latin American market, announced its product launch and a $3.5 million pre-seed round led...

    Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million – TechCrunch

    Tetrate, the company commercializing an open source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. The round, led...

    Join Sarah Kunst and Julia Collins for a live Q&A today at noon PT/3pm ET – TechCrunch

    Julia Collins is the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn in the form of Zume, a robotics company that cooked pizzas and delivered...

    Russia is trying to throttle Twitter – TechCrunch

    In its latest strike against online content it doesn’t control Russia is throttling Twitter. State agency Roskomnadzor said today it was taking the action...

    Optibus picks up $107M for a planning and operations platform aimed at mass transportation – TechCrunch

    Mass transportation is a critical part of how metropolitan areas keep moving, and today a startup that has built an AI-based platform to help...

    Cheese raises $3.6M for its digital bank aimed at the Asian-American community – TechCrunch

    Many things have accelerated in the world of fintech over the past year, not the least of which is the trend of digital banks...

    Web Summit will spin out its virtual conference software as a full-blown startup – TechCrunch

    Sources say Web Summit, the giant tech conference company which specialized in very large gatherings in cities like Lisbon, is poised to spin out...

    Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service – TechCrunch

    Aqua Security, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135...

    Cloud cybersecurity startup Lumu raises a $7.5 million Series A – TechCrunch

    Miami-based cybersecurity startup Lumu today announced the closing of its $7.5 million Series A. The round was co-led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s SB Opportunity...

    Savannah Fund launches $25M fund to invest in African startups at seed and Series A – TechCrunch

    Savannah Fund, a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Since...

    Facebook targets emerging markets with Instagram Lite, a new Android app that takes up just 2MB, in 170 countries – TechCrunch

    Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers...

    Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology

    China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging the sectors where the United States...

    Deepfake Videos of Eerie Tom Cruise Revive Debate

    To those fearful of a future in which videos of real people are indistinguishable from computer-generated forgeries, two recent developments that attracted an audience...

    Russia Says It Is Slowing Access to Twitter

    MOSCOW — The Russian government said on Wednesday that it was slowing access to Twitter, accusing the social network of failing to remove illegal...

    Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in...

    Via buys mapping startup Remix for $100 million – TechCrunch

    Remix, the startup that developed mapping software used by cities for transportation planning and street design, was born out of a hackathon during a...