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    Volition’s Larry Cheng on trying to raise a fund right now: “All of the LPs felt more constrained”

    Last month, Volition Capital, a 13-year-old, 30-person Boston-based growth equity firm, announced it has closed its fifth fund with $675 million in capital commitments,...

    Twitter will send a notification when a tweet you replied to or retweeted gets a Community Note

    Blindingly amplifying views or posts on social media is one of the key reasons for the rapid spread of misinformation. Over the years, prominent...

    Strive gets backing from Y Combinator to show kids that coding is fun • TechCrunch

    Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Developed with an active...

    Carbon Maps helps the food industry reduce their climate impact • TechCrunch

    Meet Carbon Maps, a new French startup that raised $4.3 million (€4 million) just a few weeks after its inception. The company is building...

    iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels • TechCrunch

    Hey, TechCrunch besties. After a week in Korea and the Philippines, it’s great to be back in the States — and slightly more tan...

    Roblox wants to let people build virtual worlds just by typing • TechCrunch

    AI chatbots can spit out convincing — if at times overconfident — natural language responses, but what if an AI could build custom virtual...

    Here are the features coming to iOS 16.4 • TechCrunch

    Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 16.4 on Thursday and while this update is designed for a small base of users, the...

    Brigad raises $30 million for its freelancer marketplace for hospitality and care workers • TechCrunch

    French startup Brigad just raised a new $30 million funding round (€28 million) as well as more than $5 million in debt. The company...

    Korea’s Portlogics makes international shipping easier for merchants with its software tool • TechCrunch

    Most merchants in South Korea keep track of their international shipping logistics via email until their cargo safely gets to its destination. This includes...

    Singapore-based neobank Aspire raises $100M from Lightspeed and Sequoia SEA • TechCrunch

    Aspire, the Singapore-based neobank that wants to become the financial operating system for SMEs, has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series C round. Investors...

    Is Xiaomi’s shine dimming in India? • TechCrunch

    Xiaomi — the company that originally made its name as “the Apple of China” — broke out of its home market and became a...

    AI apps, Bing hits the Top Charts, Google and Mozilla test non-WebKit browsers • TechCrunch

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall...

    Indian social media app Slick exposed childrens’ user data • TechCrunch

    Emerging Indian social media app Slick left an internal database containing users’ personal information, including data of school-going children, publicly exposed to the internet...

    Low-code database APITable is another Airtable challenger • TechCrunch

    Airtable’s whopping $11 billion valuation attained in late 2021 has lured a raft of ambitious entrepreneurs into the low-code database space. They covet even...

    Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding • TechCrunch

    Uber alums’ engineering analytics startup Hatica has raised $3.7 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said...

    Palm.hr raises $5M, embarks on MENA growth • TechCrunch

    A few years ago, Richard Schrems was working as a human resources consultant in Riyadh, and at one point sought to implement a tech-solution...