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    With a Warby Parker playbook, SISU raises funding from Greycroft to face-off against cosmetic clinics – TechCrunch

    With so many people getting ‘botox’ and ‘filler’ treatments to their faces these days (or are they, during the pandemic?), it’s probably no wonder...

    Final week to score $50 student passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    Class is about to be in session, students. If you’re passionate about mobility and transportation tech and hungry to learn from the visionaries, makers...

    Shipt shoppers are organizing a walkout in protest of new pay model – TechCrunch

    Shipt shoppers are organizing a handful of actions in protest of Shipt’s new pay structure that began rolling out this month.  The first...

    9 VCs in Madrid and Barcelona discuss the COVID-19 era and look to the future – TechCrunch

    Spain’s startup ecosystem has two main hubs: Madrid and Barcelona. Most observers place Barcelona first and Madrid second, but the gap appears to close...

    Collective, a back office platform that caters to ‘businesses of one,’ just landed a hefty seed round – TechCrunch

    Americans and other global citizens are increasingly self-employed, thanks to great software, the need for flexibility, and because skilled services especially can pay fairly...

    Greylock and MLT are trying to diversify tech’s wealth cycle – TechCrunch

    Greylock Partners has teamed up with Management Leadership for Tomorrow to address issues of diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. “Our view is...

    Healthcare entrepreneurs should prepare for an upcoming VC/PE bubble – TechCrunch

    Bird Blitch is the CEO of Patientco, a payment technology company founded specifically to rethink the healthcare payment experience. While many industries are taking a...

    Biden campaign calls out Facebook for spreading Team Trump’s dangerous voting lies – TechCrunch

    In a new letter to its chief executive on the eve of the first presidential debate, the Biden campaign slammed Facebook for its failure...

    Polaris and Zero Motorcycles reach deal to bring electric off roaders to market – TechCrunch

    Polaris is a name synonymous with powersports — just head to any of the hundreds of snowmobile trails in Wisconsin, Minnesota or other...

    Facebook introduces Accounts Center, a tool for managing a growing number of cross-app settings – TechCrunch

    Despite being under antitrust investigations in U.S. and E.U., Facebook today is rolling out a new feature that highlights the extent to which its...

    Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform – TechCrunch

    As machine learning has grown, one of the major bottlenecks remains labeling things so the machine learning application understands the data it’s working with....

    TikTok launches a U.S. elections guide in its app – TechCrunch

    Though TikTok is in the middle of fighting off the Trump administration’s attempt to ban its app in the U.S. over data privacy concerns,...

    Can Amazon Conquer the World?

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Amazon is the opposite of our romantic...

    Slack Slowdown Frustrates Remote Workers

    Slack, the widely used business communication tool, experienced slowdowns in service on Tuesday, frustrating workers who have become increasingly dependent on it as they...

    Join us today at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT to discuss the future of startup investing with Index Ventures VCs Nina Achadjian and Sarah...

    The venture capital world is rapidly changing, and thank heavens we have two of the smartest VCs on the future of investing, productivity tools,...

    Disney+ adds a co-watching feature called GroupWatch – TechCrunch

    Disney+ is the latest streaming service to introduce a way for friends and family to watch movies and TV together while in different locations. With the...