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Remote payroll startup Deel has acquired fintech Capbase for an undisclosed amount in a cash and stock deal, the companies have told TechCrunch exclusively. As its name suggests, San Francisco-based Capbase claims it can update a company’s cap table in real time as it issues shares, signs contracts and raise money from investors. It then […] Deel enters equity management space with acquisition of Capbase by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and Open AI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other, are commanding a lot of interest from investors, and today the latest of these is announcing a big round of funding. DeepL, a startup that provides instant translation-as-a-service both to businesses and to individuals — competing with […] DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information. Now a startup called Vylo wants to take the short video format a step further and lets users share their thoughts about sports, current affairs, and other categories of news by filming themselves talking. My first reaction to the idea was: why does one need […] Kleiner Perkins-backed Vylo thinks the future of news is video commentary by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch... →

Activity in the self-driving car industry, frenetic for years, has somewhat stalled in more recent times; but a handful of the most promising companies are continuing to see their businesses grow and attract investment in the process. In one of the more recent developments, Oxbotica, a startup out of England that develops software to power […] Oxbotica raises $140M more as its B2B autonomous vehicle platform gains ground by Ingrid Lunden 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: Citing ‘unscrupulous actors’ and market trends, Coinbase CEO lays off 950 workers  by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Investment giant Fidelity announced today that it has acquired Shoobx, a venture-backed fintech startup, for an undisclosed amount. Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. The pair went on to raise a known $10 million funding for the company with investors such as Austin-based Scout Ventures and Steve Papa. […] Fidelity makes first acquisition in 7 years, snapping up fintech Shoobx by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last year, French startup Qonto acquired its German competitor Penta. Both companies offer business bank accounts for small and medium companies as well as freelancers. Today, Qonto shared some details about the integration process. At the time of the acquisition, Penta was serving 50,000 companies in Germany while Qonto had 300,000 customers in France, Spain, […] Qonto plans to move Penta customers to its platform by the end of 2023 by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

German-based biotech company BioNTech SE is set to acquire InstaDeep, a Tunis-born and U.K.-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million (~$680 million) in its largest deal yet. Per The Financial Times, the German vaccine maker intends to use InstaDeep’s machine learning to “improve its drug discovery process, including developing personalised treatments tailored […] BioNTech acquires Tunisian-born and U.K-based AI startup InstaDeep for £562M by Tage Kene-Okafor originally pub... →

If 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics, 2023 will be a year when we'll determine the winners and the losers. 2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. (Nearly 10% of businesses now have more than 200 apps to manage, according to a recent Okta study.) In a large-scale survey of IT decision makers […] Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […] IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

During downturns, think of M&A as a game of musical chairs. Companies that test the market earlier in the cycle tend to see better outcomes. A timeline for startup M&A processes: Key steps and factors to consider by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

In partnership with AiFi, a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. A part of Microsoft’s Cloud for Retail product suite, Smart Store Analytics provides retailers using AiFi’s technology with shopper and operational analytics for their fleets […] Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets by Kyle Wiggers originall... →

Sam Zeloof is a popular name on YouTube and tech Twitter. For years, he has been documenting his impressive journey of building silicon chips at his garage. What most people don’t know is that Zeloof has been working to take this expertise to its next logical level. Zeloof has partnered with engineering veteran Jim Keller […] OpenAI in talks to back Zeloof and chip legend Keller’s startup at $100 million valuation by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

The market for cross-border logistics services is said to hit revenues of $32 billion by 2025, with several companies vying for market share in the ever-growing competitive industry. Ghanaian e-logistics startup Jetstream Africa is on the list, and today, it’s announcing that it has secured $13 million in equity and debt pre-Series A financing.  Fintech […] Jetstream, a Ghanaian e-logistics platform for Africa’s B2B importers and exporters, takes in $13M equity, debt by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published... →

Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. And French startup Qarnot is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. While the startup has been around for a while, Qarnot now wants to reach the next level. It has […] Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Supermom, a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world. The Singapore-based startup […] Singapore-based Supermom helps parenting brands navigate a post-cookie world by Catherine Shu 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: In an all-cash transaction, private equity firm buys insurtech startup Duck Creek for $2.6B by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Anthropic, the startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees that’s raised over $700 million in funding to date, has developed an AI system similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that appears to improve upon the original in key ways. Called Claude, Anthropic’s system is accessible through a Slack integration as part of a closed beta. TechCrunch wasn’t able to […] Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT, but still suffers from limitations by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

It may come as a surprise to some, but not every startup is clamoring to raise venture capital. These 5 companies bootstrapped their way to big businesses while VCs came knocking by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →