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Neobanks have made a name for themselves by successfully winning the business of newly-minted adults, opening their first checking, savings and investment accounts and uninterested in doing business with clunky, expensive legacy banks. Now a new wave of startups and services has been getting a jump on that model with an even earlier target: […] GoHenry, the banking service for under-18s, raises $55M after passing 2M users by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: Closed early-access product Relay raises $5M seed round to ‘tackle collaborative workflows’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

PitchBook analyst Kyle Stanford shared his insights on what venture capital investment will look like in the fourth quarter. Founders shouldn’t bet on a Q4 venture capital resurgence by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Investors are paying more attention to founder and startup behavior and many won't invest in startups that could compromise their ethics. 6 investors share where they draw the line when it comes to ethical issues by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

With less than a week to go, we’re absolutely stoked to see you all in San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt, live and in person! You’re no doubt planning your days and with more than 50 roundtable discussions on tap, we want to call your attention to the info-rich topics that our partners will present. But […] Check out our partner roundtable topics and speakers at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Fintech fundraising has fallen along with the rest of the venture activity. But the portion of VC activity that fintech can lay claim to is also in decline. Fintech fundraising has reverted to the mean by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

After years of being tight-lipped on viewership numbers, Netflix teamed up with British TV ratings agency Broadcasters Audience Research Board or BARB, an organization in the UK that reports broadcast and streaming numbers. Starting in November, the organization will measure Netflix’s daily streaming numbers as well as report on its monthly reach and share of […] Netflix signs up with UK TV ratings agency BARB to reveal streaming viewership numbers by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch... →

I didn’t know we needed a VTuber Gym Leader in the Pokémon universe. Then, we met Iono. Last week, Pokémon released a 14-minute trailer about the upcoming “Pokémon Scarlet & Violet” games, which will mark the ninth generation of the iconic franchise’s main series installments. So this morning, when Pokémon unveiled another teaser for the […] ‘Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’ has a VTuber gym leader by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

EV maker Polestar has unveiled the Polestar 3, its first SUV designed to help propel the startup to bona fide mass market automaker. Priced from $83,900, the 489-horsepower Polestar 3 will achieve an estimated 300-mile range, according to Polestar – a competitive set of figures designed to compete with a forthcoming crop of battery-electric luxury […] Polestar steers towards the mass market with its first electric SUV by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch... →

Following last week’s Google event, a colleague commented to me that the Pixel 7 wasn’t as big an upgrade as the Pixel 6. This is an objectively true statement. But also, it’s fine. Whatever you think about the yearly refresh cycle hardware makers are locked into, we’ve all come to accept that some upgrades are […] Google Pixel 7 Pro: Refinements are perfectly fine by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Samsung and Google announced a new partnership today that will allow easier setup for Matter-enabled devices on both Samsung SmartThings and Google Home systems. At the Samsung Developer Conference held in San Fransisco, the Korean tech giant said that it will update its SmartThings app in the coming months so that users can onboard Matter-enabled […] Samsung and Google partner to speed up Matter-enable smart home setups by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

It took some evasive maneuvering to get us here — the building out of a small-scale hardware ecosystem, coupled with a couple big-ticket acquisitions and a partnership with one of its largest potential competitors. But suddenly, Google emerging as competitive in the smartwatch space doesn’t seem an altogether outlandish proposition. One can make a compelling […] Google’s Pixel Watch delivers nice hardware, but fails to answer the ‘why’ by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

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TripActions, a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5 billion. The funding is a $154 million equity round from investors including returning investors Andreessen Horowitz and Premji Invest, and a $150 million structured financing deal […] Oh look, TripActions raised at a $9.2B valuation after reported $12B IPO filing by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced Defender Cloud Security Posture Management and Defender for DevOps, two new offerings within the company’s Defender for Cloud service (previously Cloud App Security) aimed at managing software development and runtime security across multicloud, multiple-pipeline environments. Currently available in public preview, they work with GitHub and Azure DevOps to […] Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud by Kyle Wiggers ori... →

It’s Microsoft Ignite this week and while a lot of the announcements this week target the kinds of IT professionals and admins who really need more deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service through Azure Arc, the company is also announcing a few user-facing updates to its Edge browser. The most important of these is likely […] Microsoft’s Edge browser gets shared Workspaces, new security features and more by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

When Azure OpenAI Service launched in 2021, the service — a part of Azure Cognitive Services — provided enterprise-tailored access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform for applications like language translation and text autocompletion. That’s not changing. But after expanding the service in May with fine-tuning features, Microsoft is today introducing invite-only access to […] Microsoft expands Azure OpenAI Service with DALL-E 2 in preview by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction. Syntex reads, tags and indexes document […] Microsoft announces Syntex, a set of automated document and data processing services by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunc... →

Power Automate, Microsoft’s Power Platform service that helps users create workflows between apps, is getting new AI smarts. During its Ignite conference, Microsoft rolled out capabilities powered by OpenAI’s Codex, the code-generating machine learning system underpinning GitHub Copilot. Starting today (in public preview), Power Automate users can write what they want to automate in natural […] Thanks to AI, you can now create automations in Power Automate by simply describing them by Kyle Wiggers originall... →