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    Nabis raises $5m Series A to grow its cannabis distribution platform – TechCrunch

    The cannabis industry is quickly growing up, and companies like Nabis play a critical role. Today, the company is announcing it raised $5...

    Stellar blockchain will soon support USDC stablecoin – TechCrunch

    USDC, the stablecoin co-founded by Circle and Coinbase, first started as an Ethereum-based token. After adding support for the Algorand blockchain, Centre, the consortium...

    Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform – TechCrunch

    Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 million Series A...

    Whisper announces $35M Series B to change hearing aids with AI and subscription model – TechCrunch

    A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands...

    YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory

    The company says that these changes have decreased by more than 70 percent the number of views borderline content gets from recommendations, although that...

    Bipedal robot developer Agility announces $20M raise – TechCrunch

    Agility, the Oregon State University spinoff behind Digit and Cassie, announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in funding. The latest round,...

    Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet – TechCrunch

    A new study from Pew Research Center, released today, digs into the different ways that U.S. Democrats and Republicans use Twitter. Based on data...

    River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, launches with $10.4 million in funding – TechCrunch

    River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, has today announced the close of a $10.4 million funding round from Founders Fund, .406,...

    Koyeb raises $1.6 million for its serverless data-processing engine – TechCrunch

    French startup Koyeb has raised a $1.6 million (€1.4 million) pre-seed round. The company focuses on data-processing workflows across multiple cloud providers. It hides...

    Alpaca raises $10M Series A for its API-powered equities trading service – TechCrunch

    This morning Alpaca, a startup that helps other companies add commission-free equities trading to their own products, announced a $10 million Series A. The...

    AirBuddy’s AirPod integration for the Mac gets updated with more iOS-style features – TechCrunch

    The AirBuddy app is celebrating another successful Apple week by opening up preorders on v2.0. The original, which arrived in early 2019, brought a...

    News that Calm seeks more funding at a higher valuation is not transcendental thinking – TechCrunch

    'Growth' is a mantra Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that meditation app Calm is looking into raising $150 million more at a valuation of around $2.2...

    Extend banks $40M to bring a new approach to the old game of extended warranties – TechCrunch

    Extended warranties — those offers to add an extra year or two to an existing product warranty to give you a little more peace...

    Snapchat launches its TikTok rival, Sounds on Snapchat – TechCrunch

    Snapchat this summer announced it would soon release a new music-powered feature that would allow users to set their Snaps to music. Today, the...

    France and the Netherlands signal support for EU body to clip the wings of big tech – TechCrunch

    “Pre-emptive action should intervene prior to the stage where damage becomes irreversible,” French digital minister, Cederic O, and Mona Keijzer, the secretary of state...

    Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights to the US – TechCrunch

    Savana, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its...