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Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host Kirsten Korosec is off having a glorious vacation, so I will be doing the roundup this week. As the EV revolution takes hold, one problem keeps plaguing automakers: […] VanMoof skids off track, another mobility startup goes SPAC and e-bike batteries catch fire by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

Performance Livestock Analytics spun out from Zoetis because the startup thought it could achieve better scale on its own. Deal Dive: Backing a founder again after they’ve spun out from their acquirer by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

The creator monetization platform Fanhouse announced yesterday that it was acquired by Passes, a similar startup that only launched in beta in December. “We only hopped on a call maybe 36 hours ago, and then we closed the deal 24 hours ago,” Lucy Guo, the founder of Passes, told TechCrunch. Guo declined to disclose the […] Passes acquired Fanhouse, but some creators are apprehensive by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

Big moves ahead for Kahoot, the Oslo startup that’s built a popular platform for users to create, share and play education-focused “games”, played by billions of students and adults over the years. The company has announced that it is going fully private in an all-cash PE deal at 35 NOK per share, valuing Kahoot at […] Gamified e-learning platform Kahoot gets acquired in a $1.7 deal led by Goldman Sachs, Lego and more by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Flipkart commenced a $700 million “one-time discretionary” cash payout to employees on Friday, the single-largest such compensation in the Indian startup ecosystem. The Walmart-backed Bengaluru-headquartered startup is compensating employees for the separation of fintech PhonePe from the e-commerce group. The two firms completed a full ownership separation late last year in a deal that was […] Flipkart makes $700 million payout to employees following PhonePe split by Manish Singh originally published on Tec... →

African startups clashing with regulators due to non-compliance are often faced with far-reaching consequences, including some that render their businesses defunct or inoperable in some markets – as was experienced by some scale-ups last year. Non-compliance incidents are pervasive in Africa’s startup community, often due to the lack of proper guidance at the foundation stage. […] Kenya’s Lawyers Hub gains traction helping startups meet regulatory compliance by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunc... →

Telly, the hardware startup that is giving U.S. consumers free dual screen smart TVs that are supported by advertising, announced today that it has started shipping its TVs to its first round of customers. The company says the customers in this initial wave have been invited to participate in its beta program, but did not […] Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported TVs to its first round of customers by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Since struggling e-bike startup VanMoof confirmed it had gone into the Dutch version of administration, there has been a question hanging over the VanMoof bikes out there in the wild. These relied heavily for their operation on a connected smartphone app made by the company. The app controlled a number of important settings and functions, […] Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →

Inventory robots are having a moment. Two days back, Swiss firm Verity announced an $11 million raise. That followed a $20 million round from fellow drone inventory startup B Garage, which, in turn, arrived two days after Gather AI announced it had acquired competitor Ware. That same day, Dexory announced $19 million for its back-of-house […] Simbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

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There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pipe, Founderpath and Arc. But the options for South Asian companies are far more limited. A new startup, Efficient Capital Labs (ECL), has emerged to give B2B SaaS companies operating in the South Asia-US corridor more financing […] QED leads $7M round into startup that offers financing to SaaS businesses across US-South Asia corridor by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Artificial intelligence has been a big theme in the world of health and medical research, and specifically in the area of drug discovery. Today, another hopeful in the space is announcing a funding round to expand its own contribution to the field. Causaly, a London startup that has built an AI platform to help researchers […] Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Skill-Lync, an Indian startup offering upskilling programs, has laid off 20% of its workforce — around 225 employees — to reduce operational costs amid the ongoing, global funding crunch for startups. The five-year-old Chennai-based company, which has its headquarters in Palo Alto, started its most job cutting drive on June 27, TechCrunch learned, but they […] Indian upskilling platform Skill-Lync cuts 20% jobs to ‘streamline operations’ by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images. The sketch-to-image service, Stable Doodle, leverages the latest Stable Diffusion model to analyze the outline of a sketch and generate a “visually pleasing” artistic rendition of it. It’s available starting today through ClipDrop, a platform […] Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Swiggy has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LYNK, a retail logistics startup with a network of over 100,000 stores, the latest in a series of purchases by the Indian food delivery giant in the past two years. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which counts Prosus, Accel and Invesco among its backers, said the acquisition of […] Indian food delivery giant Swiggy acquires retail logistics startup LYNK by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Lucid’s future was already cloudy, but lately the EV startup’s name is practically a misnomer.  On Wednesday, Lucid told investors that it delivered 1,404 of its Air sedans during the second quarter, missing Wall Street analysts’ expectations by nearly 600 vehicle deliveries. The startup also said it built 2,173 vehicles during Q2, down from 2,314 […] Lucid stock falls as sales miss expectations by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Is VanMoof about to go poof? Earlier this week, we reported on how the Amsterdam-based e-bike startup, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding, was facing a major crisis: a prolonged pause in sales; a barrage of angry customers demanding refunds for their bikes, or complaining about the lack of service on […] Report: e-bike startup VanMoof, unable to pay its bills, files for payment deferment in Holland by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an integrated operating system for banks. In simpler terms, Cieplinski described CapStack as the “first bank-to-bank marketplace,” giving the institutions the ability to share and have visibility into one another’s portfolios. Cieplinski started CapStack in March with […] Pipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’ by Mary Ann Azevedo o... →

French startup Swile shared some revenue metrics just a year after merging with Bimpli, the employee benefits division of BPCE. Swile’s main product is a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers. In 2022, Swile generated €138 million in revenue ($153 million at today’s exchange rate) — that includes Bimpli’s revenue. And yet, […] Employee benefits startup Swile expects to become profitable next quarter by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

We’ve seen the rise of the customer data platform (CDP) in recent years as a central repository for collecting data about customers to better understand their needs. It’s worth noting that Twilio spent $3.2 billion to buy CDP Segment in 2020 with the goal of building data-fueled apps. Today, Lantern, an early stage startup is […] Lantern is building a B2B platform that combines a CDP and customer success tools by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →