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The panic sparked by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is spreading to China, the world’s second-largest venture capital market. Across social media platforms, investors and startups are rushing to share news articles on the fiasco and thoughts on how to prevent such a catastrophic moment. For some companies, however, the impact is tangible. When […] SVB’s debacle is causing panic in China’s startup industry by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch... →

While the startup world digests the shocking implosion of well-known financial institution Silicon Valley Bank, the fallout may extend to the crypto world as well. One stablecoin in particular, USDC, was known as of Jan. 17 to have held some of its backing capital at SVB, funds that are likely now illiquid for several days. […] Uncertainty stands around multi-billion USDC empire as issuer Circle held reserves at Silicon Valley Bank by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

Sometimes, leaving stealth isn’t your own choice: It’s a force function of two of your largest competitors evaporating from the business, and the third triggering clients so much that there’s a talk of a bank run. At least that’s the case for Series CEO Brexton Pham, who has been building a full-stack enterprise platform for […] For startup competition, SVB’s nightmare is a win and a dare by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann Azevedo, Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm gathered to riff through the week’s biggest startup and venture news. And what news it was! At the top of the show, we riffed about the situation […] Flat is the new up, down is the new flat, dead is the new down by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

It’s come down to this, startup fans. Today’s the last day to beat the buzzer and claim the biggest discount on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place September 19–21. Here’s a simple question: What the heck are you waiting for? TechCrunch Disrupt 2023: Save now — go later Buy one of these passes — […] It’s the last day to save $1,000 on passes to Disrupt 2023 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Cerebral has revealed it shared the private health information, including mental health assessments, of more than 3.1 million patients in the United States with advertisers and social media giants like Facebook, Google, and TikTok. The telehealth startup, which exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic after rolling lockdowns and a surge in online-only virtual health […] Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCru... →

Startups are facing a moment of reckoning in the current economic climate, and today one of the more promising in the world of fintech has cracked under the pressure. Railsr, the London, UK embedded finance startup formerly known as Railsbank and once worth nearly $1 billion, announced today that it has been acquired by a […] Railsr, the UK embedded fintech once valued at nearly $1B, goes into bankruptcy protection under new consortium owner by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Mythic, an AI chip startup that last November reportedly ran out of capital, rose from the ashes today with an unexpected injection of fresh funds. Mythic this morning announced that it closed a $13 million financing round led by existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC and Lux Capital alongside new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser […] AI chip startup Mythic rises from the ashes with $13M, new CEO by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which brings Synctera’s total raised to $60 million since its June 2020 inception. Private equity firm The Banc Funds and sponsor bank partners Veritex Community Bank, Midland […] Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meet Tweed, a startup coming out of stealth today that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. With Tweed, companies can generate wallets for their users so they can buy, hold, send and spend crytpo assets without any technical knowledge. The startup raised a $4 million seed round last summer with […] Tweed is a crypto wallet API to add a web3 flavor to any web service by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. The startup says artists including BlackPink, Niall Horan, TXT and 5 Seconds of Summer have already used the feature during live release […] Social music streaming startup Stationhead launches new live commerce tool by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

I’ve spent years trying to understand which tools give you the most bang for your buck and which are just not worth the overhead. Building a lean B2B startup growth stack by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

Brussels-based startup Cowboy has been in the news lately for its cash burn rate. But the company wants to control its narrative again with some product and business news. Cowboy is launching a new feature called ‘AdaptivePower’, which automatically adjusts the power of the motor depending on the current slope and weather conditions. Cowboy’s electric […] E-bike maker Cowboy raises new funding round and launches AdaptivePower by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

В феврале 2023 года компания привлекла $300-400 млн от Google, писали СМИ.... →

QuantWare, the Dutch startup that builds quantum processors for research and commercial usage, today announced that it has raised a €6 million seed round (that’s about $6.33 million) led by Dutch deep tech investor Forward.One, with participation from QDNL Participations and Graduate Entrepreneur, among others. The company says it will use this new funding to […] QuantWare raises €6M to scale its quantum processor business by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

The automotive industry is starting to show some signs of recovery after a big contraction during the Covid-19 pandemic, and carmakers planning for the next five years are looking at what new features might help them eek out more sales. Envisics — a U.K. startup that designs holographic in-car technology that projects navigation, safety alerts and […] Envisics raises $50M at a $500M valuation for its in-car holographic tech by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

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A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane, today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI. Humane’s work is shrouded in mystery. But its latest round of funding, a Series C, attracted a laundry list of notable […] Humane, a secretive AI startup founded by ex-Apple employees, raises another $100M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Vantage, a startup that helps businesses better understand their cloud infrastructure spend (and automate their savings), today announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A funding round led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from by Andreessen Horowitz, which led its seed round, as well as Harpoon Ventures, CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew […] Vantage raises $21M Series A to help bring down cloud costs by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Forethought has been building chatbots since 2017 with increasing levels of sophistication, intelligence and automation. Today, the startup announced the next phase in their development. It’s bringing generative AI to the platform with a beta release of a new tool called SupportGPT. The product is designed to deliver auto-generated customer service responses without the need […] Forethought aims to build more accurate chatbots with constrained generative AI models by Ron Miller originally published on TechC... →