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Apple’s 30% tech tax on developers has not just antagonized consumer tech giants like Epic Games and Spotify but is also turning web3 startups against it. Major NFT marketplaces OpenSea and Magic Eden noticeably only let users browse listings on their iPhone apps without enabling trading to avoid the steep fees. But doing so bars […] Beware Apple: This startup is building a web3-friendly app store for developers by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch... →

TechCrunch Disrupt — taking place October 18–20 in San Francisco — is the world-class tech conference where startups go to grow. Building a startup is no easy task — not exactly a newsflash, we know. And it’s why we want to direct your attention to the companies we partner with to make it happen. One […] Don’t miss our partner breakouts and Discovery stage sessions at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Corporate spend management startup Brex has laid off 136 people, or 11% of its staff, across all departments as part of a restructuring, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. After the layoffs, Brex has just over 1,150 employees. It’s been a tumultuous year for Brex, which announced in April that it was leaning into the […] Brex, valued at $12.3B earlier this year, lays off 11% of staff as part of restructuring by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Nicolás Giménez, the co-founder of Argentina-based startup Fidu, has convinced over 1,000 schools across the Latin America region to place their operations in the hands of a scrappy edtech startup. Fidu wants to build a new operating system for LatAm schools, so that institutions can digitally manage everything from finances to school-wide announcements. The company, […] Fidu wants to be a full stack solution for LatAm private schools by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

In the past year, over 100,000 women in Colombia and Mexico have sold 2 million orders and earned millions of dollars on Elenas' platform. Social commerce startup Elenas secures $20M to help more LatAm women sell online by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Foxglove, a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says is being put […] Foxglove raises $16M to build dev infrastructure for robots by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Life science businesses like big pharmaceutical companies have a singular set of needs when it comes to building applications. Their models and algorithms tend to be more sophisticated and data-intensive than most industries. Quantori, a Cambridge, MA startup, is building a Platform-as-a-Service tuned specifically to the needs of this vertical. The startup is attempting to […] Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. Now, a startup called Factorial — one of the bigger players in the area of building HR technology for SMBs — is announcing a big fundraise at a “unicorn” valuation that […] Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft startup Joby Aviation is partnering with Delta Airlines to deliver “home-to-airport” transportation services to Delta customers starting in New York and Los Angeles — although it might be more accurate to call it a   “neighborhood-to-airport” service, one that will rely on a network of local vertiports to fly […] Joby, Delta Air Lines to pilot home-to-airport eVTOL transportation by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

We are getting a more realistic update on the startup funding landscape in India, and as is true elsewhere, all the figures are in red in the South Asian market. Indian startups raised $3 billion in the quarter that ended in September, down 57% from the previous quarter and 80% year-over-year, market intelligence platform Tracxn […] Funding in Indian startups shrinks by more than half by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Back in 2020 I covered how the UK startup Yardlink – which allows construction companies to obtain critical equipment faster than normal equipment rental companies – had raised it’s Seed round. It was basically bringing a digital-first, marketplace approach to an industry normal hide-bound by a slow, centralized hire market. Two years later, and Yardlink […] Construction equipment marketplace raises a $17.5M Series A led by Beringea by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →

The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internationally. Now a startup providing the tools to make and manage those transactions is announcing some funding. Airwallex, the Hong Kong/Australia startup that provides cross-border banking and other financial services for businesses, has raised $100 million, […] Airwallex raises $100M to power cross-border business banking, valuation stays flat at $5.5B by Ingrid Lunden 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: After bans by Apple and Google, The OG App ‘will be unable to continue serving users’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

AgriWebb is on a mission to help livestock producers feed the world efficiently, profitably and sustainably by providing its comprehensive, ground-truth database for beef production worldwide. The Australian startup, which builds a livestock management platform for ranchers and farmers, wants to digitize farm records and the meat production process from the cow to the consumer […] AgriWebb’s software seeks to boost yields, lower environmental impacts for farmers and ranchers by Kate Park originally publishe... →

We’ve seen AIs create music, pornography and art. The Estonian startup Yummy started off creating a meal-kit startup, but along the way created an AI that can create and adapt recipes based on your taste and dietary restrictions, complete with AI-generated images of what your dishes might look like. “Imagine a world where you would […] Great, now the AI is coming for your grandma’s recipes as well! by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

We’re on the home stretch, startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off in less than 10 days and runs from October 18–20. This message goes out to all the last-minute decision-makers. It’s the final week you can save serious cheddar on a Disrupt pass. It’s go time. Buy your pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. […] It’s your last week to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store. In a Twitter thread, co-founders of Un1feed, the company that published The OG App, said that the startup […] Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Clerkenwell Health, a psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation, has raised £2.1m in seed funding, bringing the total to date up to £2.5m, which will be used to get the London startup-based fully operational. Investors include Lionheart Ventures, Convergence Partners, and Exceptional Ventures, which was co-founded by Paolo Pio (former MD Europe at Joyance Partners) and Matt […] Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1m to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments by Mike Butcher originally published on... →

While the overall crypto markets have been in a rough spot lately, web3 venture capitalists have never had more conviction — or more funding at their disposal — to back startups and teams building in the space. The big question on their minds is whether tokens and startup valuations have bottomed out, or if they […] Dragonfly GP talks web3’s current and future state at TC Sessions: Crypto by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I think it took maybe three days after I roasted our rather dry M&A season for the news cycle to prove me wrong. This week we saw Naver acquire Poshmark, Duolingo buy […] Toil and trouble and … startup acquisitions! by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →