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Claim, a platform that is both a rewards app and a social network, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The startup is on a mission to make shopping fun, rewarding and social. The app launched on an invite-only beta in January and is currently focused on university and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

ShareChat is in final stages of deliberations to secure about $50 million in new funding that trims the startup’s valuation to below $1.5 billion, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Existing backers including Temasek and Tencent are among the investors in advanced stages of talks to invest in the new round, the sources […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 million round in 2021. In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5 million in creator […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is the first of a two-part series that we built for you going back over critical themes from 2023. It was a very, very busy […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

2023 proved to be a be a challenging year on the ransomware front after a brief lull in 2022. According to data from cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis, victims had paid ransomware groups well over $400 million combined as of July 2023. Statista, meanwhile, reports that a whopping over two-thirds — 72% — of businesses have […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

ImpriMed, a California-based precision medicine startup, builds AI-powered dog cancer treatment technology that helps veterinarians identify the most suitable drugs for individual canine and feline blood cancers.   The startup, which centers on improving treatment outcomes of dogs and cats with cancer first, now aims to expand its precision medicine technology for human oncology applications.  “The […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

SimSpace, a startup that creates digital replicas of organizations’ tech and networking stacks for cybersecurity training, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by L2 Point Management. Bringing the company’s total raised to $70 million, the investment comes at an auspicious time for SimSpace, which had been entirely bootstrapped until about two years […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Amo, the buzzy Paris-based startup that keeps releasing consumer social apps, is dropping its third app today. And it’s going to look really familiar to former users of Zenly as Amo’s third app is a location-sharing app — just like Zenly. In case you missed the previous episodes, Amo is a relatively new startup created […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Snowflake is buying Samooha, a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration suite, the companies announced this morning — adding to the list of big tech acquisitions leading up to the holiday season. With the deal, which is expected to close by the end of the month subject to customary closing conditions, Snowflake gains an established […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Most startup exits look nothing like the Adobe-Figma deal, which means this breakup won't impact most future startup acquisitions. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Trevor Milton, the disgraced founder and former CEO of electric truck startup Nikola, was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for securities fraud. The sentence, by Judge Edgardo Ramo in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, caps a multi-year saga that at one point sent Nikola stock soaring 83% only to come crashing down […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

ServiceNow announced this morning that it was acquiring Czech Republic task mining company UltimateSuite, giving the company a new way to capture and understand how work flows through a business. The companies did not reveal the price, but it was a 3-year old startup that had raised €768,000 (approximately $839,000), so likely not a huge […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is picking up a new investor. Verdane, a Norwegian private equity firm that earlier this year closed a $1 billion+ fund to make investments in scaling tech companies, is taking an 11% […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Superpedestrian, the e-scooter startup known for its self-diagnostic software, is shutting down its U.S.-based shared scooter operation and exploring a sale of its European business, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The company’s director of US operations, Alexander Berg, confirmed the news to his team Friday afternoon on a Zoom call. Berg said the reason for the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

“Entrepreneurs navigating the later stages of a startup face a mine field of funding options, and not all of them are suitable for their business,” writes David Spreng, founder and CEO of  Runway Growth Capital. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Let's take a deep dive into the pitch deck that climate tech startup Metafuels used to raise its $8 million seed round. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu is stepping down from the real estate tech company, according to an SEC filing. In a statement, Wu said: “After ten years, I am called to get back to my startup roots and create and build again. I’m humbled by this accomplishment and grateful for all my teammates who helped shape […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Two year old space startup In Orbit Aerospace wants to be the third party logistics provider for  Earth to space commerce – and to get there, the company just closed a new agreement to validate key technical capabilities on the International Space Station. The El Segundo, California-based company is developing orbital platforms and re-entry vehicles […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The investment arm of the UK retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup, in one of the largest financing rounds secured by an Indian startup in 2023. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which helps merchants in smaller Indian cities and towns secure inventories from major brands as well […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →