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TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back in 2023 with an enhanced new format.  This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the standalone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event – which will once again this year be held at the Moscone Center in San […] Discover the Disrupt 2023 Fintech Stage by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Yes, there is an anime dating sim that does your taxes, and it actually works. Tax Heaven 3000 is a game produced by MSCHF, the venture-funded creative studio behind projects like Push Party, the Lil Nas X blood shoes, the big red Astro Boy boots and Dead Startup Toys. Basically, they just make a bunch […] I played the anime dating sim that does your taxes for you by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

The Indian hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo is in late-stage discussions to secure about $50 million in a new financing round, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Bengaluru-headquartered startup scrambles for comfort in an otherwise funding winter for younger firms. Reliance Retail and Google, two existing backers of Dunzo, are among those […] Reliance-backed Dunzo nears fresh funding of $50 million by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Techstars’ decided to end its Swedish accelerator program. Let's dig into the country’s startup scene to understand how the smaller venture market is adapting to a changed investing climate. A look at Sweden’s startup scene as Techstars drops Stockholm program by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

Yet another startup hoping to cash in on the generative AI craze has secured an eye-popping tranche of VC funding. Called Fixie, the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to an enterprise’s data, systems and workflows. Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes […] Fixie wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Green Labs, a Seoul-based agritech startup, has secured $38.4 million (50 billion won) in debt financing from existing investors BRV Capital Management and Skylake Incuvest. The new funding comes just a month after the startup laid off around 70% of its workforce, or 350 people, in February as part of a restructuring,  Green Labs CEO Sanghoon Shin said […] Green Labs secures $38.4M in debt financing about a month after conducting layoff by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Ledger has added more money to its Series C funding round. The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). And the company is adding another €100 million ($108 million) in new funding. This is an extension […] Crypto wallet company Ledger raises another $108 million by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Polytrade, a web3 protocol focused on global trade, has raised $3.8 million in a seed round led by Alpha Wave, Matrix Partners, Polygon Ventures and CoinSwitch Ventures, the startup exclusively told TechCrunch. Other investors include Singularity Ventures and GTM Ventures. The firm has previously been backed by Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal and QuickSwap co-founder Sameep […] Web3 protocol Polytrade raises $3.8M to improve global trade by Jacquelyn Melinek 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: After raising $3M seed, global fintech platform Payday plans to secure licensing in Canada, UK by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Investors just pumped millions into Irrigreen, a startup vying to quench America’s thirsty lawns with “approximately 50% less water.” Seed investor Ulu led the $15 million funding round. Two tech investors that are focused on water conservation — Burnt Island and Echo River — also chipped in, among a handful of others. The San Francisco–based […] Irrigreen’s precision sprinklers prevent water waste and wet legs by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. Toward that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top […] Startup founders are trying to automate the worst part of the job: fundraising by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs (financial and social), the business models — may not be the most front of mind right now. Today a startup called Fetch.ai is announcing $40 million in funding in […] Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Deep Render, a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. A source familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch that the round values the startup at $30 million, a respectable number for a […] Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last July, TechCrunch reported that customers of several fintech apps couldn’t access the virtual dollar card service that these platforms provided. In addition, customers couldn’t create new cards, fund existing ones, or make online and in-store payments and purchases with them. At the heart of this issue was chargeback fraud that Zambian startup Union54, whose […] After chargeback fraud debacle, Union54 CEO says fintech in Africa ‘isn’t child’s play’ by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch... →

Payments remains one of the most fragmented of online services, a situation that is only compounded when your business trades internationally. A UK startup called Paytrix says it has raised $18.3 million in funding to build out a solution to fix this: a single platform — and single contract — that lets its customers manage […] Paytrix raises $18.3M to build out its one-stop payments shop by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Spera, a Palo Alto-based security startup that provides businesses with the tools to proactively protect themselves from identity-driven threats, today announced that it has raised a $10 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from a number of prominent angel investors and serial entrepreneurs. The company’s founders, Dor Fledel (CEO) and Ariel […] Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it behind the scenes. In the latest development, Hygraph, a startup out of Berlin that has built a platform around a new, “federated” approach to content management — think: many sources […] Hygraph raises $30M to scale out a new, federated approach to managing digital content by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

A consortium led by Lifelong Group has acquired the distressed firm GoMechanic months after the Sequoia India-backed startup admitted “grave errors” in financial reporting. Lifelong Group, which serves several major players in the automotive industry including Hero and General Motors, said it won the bidding to acquire GoMechanic, whose investors scrambled for a sale earlier […] Distressed Indian startup GoMechanic acquired by Lifelong Group-led consortium by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Building credit is hard when it’s difficult to even get credit. And while it’s not impossible to get loans or credit cards, they are usually offered at high interest rates to the people who can least afford to pay them. One Austin-based startup is out to help people build — or get — credit without […] StellarFi lands $15M to help people build credit by paying bills, rent on time by Mary Ann Azevedo 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: Zoom’s new AI-powered features include whiteboard generation and meeting summaries by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →