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    Ansa Biotechnologies wants to usher in a new era of DNA manufacturing – TechCrunch

    Daniel Arlow has spent the last eighteen years studying genomics and synthetic biology. The arc of his career has taken the first-time founder of...

    Connected fitness startup Tonal raises another $110 million – TechCrunch

    Connected home fitness startup Tonal announced today that it has raised an additional $110 million. The latest round of funding includes existing investor...

    Supercell’s CEO talks about its majority owner Tencent, finding its next hit, and more – TechCrunch

    Mobile games maker Supercell has been one of the great, understated, breakthroughs of the European startup world. The Helsinki-based mobile games maker built an...

    a conversation with Tunde Kehinde of Lidya – TechCrunch

    Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the Covid-19 pandemic. And all that has been as true in emerging markets...

    A New Ship’s Mission: Let the Deep Sea Be Seen

    In 2013, Mr. Dalio was exploring the deep Pacific with scientists from Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History when, in pitch...

    SmartNews’ Kaisei Hamamoto on how the app deals with media polarization – TechCrunch

    Six years ago, SmartNews took on a major challenge. After launching in Japan in 2012, the news discovery app decided that its first international...

    Blume Ventures’ Karthik Reddy on Indian startup ecosystem, geo-political tension with China and coronavirus – TechCrunch

    Despite the coronavirus outbreak, which has slowed down deal-making across the world, dozens of startups in India have raised considerable amounts in recent months....

    Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema – TechCrunch

    Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built...

    SmartNews’ U.S. app unveils new features for the elections, COVID-19 and local weather – TechCrunch

    News discovery app SmartNews’ new election features for U.S. users At TechCrunch Disrupt today, SmartNews announced the release of major new features for the...

    Southeast Asia’s East Ventures on female VCs, foreign investment, consolidation – TechCrunch

    Melisa Irene‘s path to becoming a partner at one of Southeast Asia’s most esteemed venture capital firms is an unconventional one. “I always consider myself...

    Interswitch to revive its Africa venture fund, CEO confirms – TechCrunch

    Pan-African fintech company Interswitch plans to fire up its corporate venture arm again—according to CEO Mitchell Elegbe—who spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday. The...

    Infarm raises $170M in equity and debt to continue building its ‘vertical farming’ network – TechCrunch

    Infarm, the vertical farming company that has built a network of urban farms to grow fresh food closer to consumers, has raised $170 million...

    TechCrunch statement on sweep at our venue – TechCrunch

    There have been a couple of articles published in the last two days reporting on an impromptu sweep that took place outside of a...

    Justice Department says WeChat users won’t be penalized under Trump’s executive order – TechCrunch

    In a Wednesday filing in federal court, the United States government said that users who use or download WeChat “to convey personal or...

    Gillmor Gang: In The Bag

    This may be counterintuitive. I hope so. I remember the day I first started using Twitter. My friend Gabe Rivera suggested it would be...

    The art of pivoting with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica Matthews – TechCrunch

    Building and growing a startup is hard, but pivoting said startup into something new and then achieving that same growth is even harder. But...