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Proptech company Roofstock has laid off about 27% of its staff today, according to an email sent to employees viewed by TechCrunch. The cuts come just five months after the startup laid off 20% of its workforce. The company’s website states that it has 400+ employees, or “Roofsters” as they’re dubbed, but it is not […] Roofstock, valued at $1.9B last year, cuts 27% of staff in second round of layoffs by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Southeast Asia’s mental health startups are getting more investor attention. Last week, Intellect announced a strategic investment from IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest private healthcare group. Now Thoughtfull, another digital mental health platform focused on Asia, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Sheares Healthcare Group. Sheares is a wholly-owned subsidiary of […] Temasek’s Sheares Healthcare backs Asia-focused mental health startup Thoughtfull by Catherine Shu originally published on ... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: GitHub CEO says new code completion tool ‘brings the fun back to programming’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

We really need to be on the ground to interview our ideal users in the U.S. What visas will allow us to do that? Ask Sophie: Which visas will allow us to expand our startup in the U.S.? by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch... →

Developers building front-end Jamstack web applications often struggle to build identity with traditional API tools. With the approach growing in popularity, the founders of Clerk decided to focus their startup on building a simplified identity tool purpose-built for React applications. The company announced a $15 million Series A led by Madrona today. Colin Sidoti, who […] Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Компания планирует поддержать три-пять проектов... →

On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Called Mozilla.ai, the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the […] Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Fintech startup Checkout.com is better known for its payment processing product. But the company is launching a new product today as Checkout.com customers can now create payment cards for their own customers. The company has been testing Checkout.com Issuing for a while as there are already millions of cards that have been created with the […] Checkout.com launches virtual and physical card issuing by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem is announcing today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only the first close — the firm expects to raise […] Emblem is the latest European seed fund in new wave of VC funds by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing subsidiary of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, has made its first acquisition as it looks to raise its international profile. It has acquired Splyt, a startup out of London that works with apps in areas like travel, ride-hailing and finance to help them build out “super app” strategies by […] Kakao Mobility picks up ‘super app’ startup Splyt, once backed by SoftBank and Grab by Kate Park 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: Bing allows users to generate images using ‘very latest DALL-E models’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Early-stage founders need mentorship and support to build a successful startup, and conventional wisdom says, “Get thee to an incubator or an accelerator!” However, the two programs are not interchangeable — they serve very different purposes — and there are roughly 500 accelerators and 1,400 incubators in the U.S. alone. Which type of startup program […] Everything you need to know about accelerators and incubators by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

How are API-first startups faring in the face of private-market headwinds and some market pessimism about the health of many startups far from their exit point? Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

Nvidia and Quantum Machines, the Israeli startup offering an orchestration platform to controlling and operating quantum processors, today announced the launch of Nvidia DGX Quantum, which combines Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchip with Quantum Machines’ controller. Over the course of the last few years, it’s become increasingly clear that to effectively operate a quantum computer, you’ll […] Nvidia teams up with Quantum Machines to combine classical and quantum machines by Frederic Lardinois originally publi... →

The worlds of technology and medicine are making big bets on AI playing a central role in the delivery of healthcare in the future. Today a startup out of Durham, NC, called Bionic Health —  built by two early movers in the commercializing of AI — is throwing its hat into that ring to build […] Bionic Health raises $3M for its AI health clinic using GPT-4 and other ML models to design better preventative care by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Ben Lamm, the founder and CEO of Colossal, a genetics startup that looks to bring extinct species back to life to help with environmental conservation efforts. Ben talked about how he got to this point […] Making more mammoths with Ben Lamm from Colossal by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, and Roman was a principal on Amazon’s ElastiCache service. “Developers are fed up with hand holding their infrastructure,” Poncz told TechCrunch in an email […] Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Maxwell Lu, formerly a product engineer at Salesforce and the head of revenue operations at a previous startup, found himself frustrated by the task of re-listening to sales calls to write up notes and fill out entries in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Searching for a better way, he decided to build tech that could […] Pilot AI taps algorithms to extract info from sales calls by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “I wanted to make a connection for creators, chats and commerce in one place,” Jaeson Ma, co-CEO of OP3N, said to TechCrunch. “It’s a web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon, […] OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3 by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

IPRally, a Finnish startup building a knowledge graph-based patent search engine, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded in 2018, IPRally is one of a number of emerging players looking to infiltrate a billion-dollar intellectual property (IP) management market dominated by incumbents such as Clarivate, Anaqua, and Questel. The […] IPRally, a patent search engine powered by explainable AI, raises $10.8M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →