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Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a self-proclaimed “merchant of record,” Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Startups Weekly in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week we are talking about Wiz’s bold decision, VC’s public feud, legal tech’s new capital and a16z’s close call. Let’s go! Most interesting startup stories […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has launched a new mid-range device, the Ledger Flex. Available now, priced at $249, the dinky hardware wallet features an E-Ink display to navigate the interface and approve transactions with a tap. Like all of Ledger’s wallets, the Ledger Flex is built around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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With the CrowdStrike update continuing to cause havoc across the planet, a startup has raised $13.5 million to at least improve some level of security for the kinds of devices that have been affected. California-based ZeroTier raised the Series A in a funding round led by Battery Ventures. While legacy companies like Cisco or Palo […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

MNT-Halan, a microfinance and payments startup out of Egypt, is on a consolidation march. The company has raised $157.5 million in funding and is using the money in part to fund the acquisition of another fintech, Tam Finans, to expand into Turkey. Tam Finans provides financing to micro-enterprises and SMEs. It currently operates 39 branches […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Greenely* has just spotted one. It’s closing an €8 million Series A funding round to expand its energy management platform into neighbouring Nordic countries (so around $8.7M at current exchange rates). The energy tech startup is serving around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has raised $300 million just four months after closing a $250 million Series E round, yet another sign of how white-hot the investment scene is for artificial intelligence companies. The secondary round adds Fidelity Management & Research Company to an already-stacked lineup of investors in the automotive AI startup, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database company. But the serial entrepreneur was getting antsy. He had already founded and sold two startups, including Insent, which ZoomInfo bought in 2021. “Once you start a startup, you always have that bug,” he […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Don Burnette, CEO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics, had an “a-ha” moment when the company started working with the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak’s mission has always been to pursue long-haul autonomous trucking, but two years ago, the startup won a $50 million contract from the DoD to help the Army automate […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The startup has developed a way to create copper and aluminum foils that are laced with tiny holes and riddled with undulating peaks and valleys. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

CRED, an Indian fintech startup, has rolled out a new feature that will help its customers manage and gain deeper insights into their cash flow, as startup seeks to drive engagement by providing much-needed personal finance tools.  Known primarily for its credit card bill payment and consumer lending service, the Bengaluru-based startup is venturing into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Our growth as a civilization is tightly coupled to our ability to sufficiently generate ever-increasing amounts of electricity. Could the same be true in space? Star Catcher Industries, a startup just emerging from stealth today, is betting that might be the case. The company is developing a space-based energy grid that could enable more power-intensive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Lakera, a Swiss startup that’s building technology to protect generative AI applications from malicious prompts and other threats, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by European venture capital firm, Atomico. Generative AI has emerged as the poster child of the burgeoning AI movement, driven by popular apps such as ChatGPT. But […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Farmers have got to do something about pests. But nobody really likes the idea of using more chemical pesticides. Thomas Laurent’s company, Micropep, thinks the answer might already be in the plants themselves. Micropep is exploring how naturally occurring compounds, known as micropeptides, might work as an entirely new class of pesticides. If the startup […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Cybersecurity has become a white-hot topic in the world of technology. Not only are data breaches continuing unabated; but security companies themselves are very much in the spotlight as a result – with one of the fastest-growing, Wiz, the object of a (now abandoned) $23 billion acquisition bid from Google. Now, another cyber startup – […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Со вчерашнего дня в украинских чатах сдержанная буря — американский финансовый стартап Mercury, которым многие пользовались как заменой банковскому счету, направил всем украинским клиентам, что перестает их обслуживать в связи с изменениями в политике банка. Изменения заключаются в том, что компания включила Украину в список подсанкционных стран наравне с РФ, Венесуэлой, Ираном, Северной Кореей и так далее. Общение с саппортом приводит к детализации — мол, часть территории Украины находится под санкциями (и... →

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Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture fund. The tranche, which also had participation from heavy-hitting angels and VCs OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil and SV Angel, brings Harvey’s total raised to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →