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• The 11 best startups from Y Combinator's S19 Demo Day 1 (Techcrunch)
  tY Combinator, the genesis for many of the companies that have shaped Silicon Valley including Airbnb, Pager Duty and Stripe, has minted an…
• Northrop Grumman leads team to design an astronaut transportation vehicle for the lunar surface (Techcrunch)
  Aerospace prime Northrop Grumman is leading a team that includes AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Michelin to design a vehicle to…
• DOJ charges founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato for processing $700M of illegal funds | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  According to the DOJ, Bitzlato allowed users to trade crypto without identify verification, making the exchange a hotbed for crime.
• SOLO’s new credit bureau concept helps lenders ditch third-party data (Techcrunch)
  Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn't have bank accounts.
• 11xAI closes a $2M pre-seed round to create autonomous AI workers | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees.
• Pure Storage Raises $28 Million, Says Flash Will Disrupt Enterprise Storage | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  According to this SEC filing, Pure Storage has raised another $28 million in venture capital, adding to the $25 million it has raised over…
• Google launches TensorFlow Enterprise with long-term support and managed services (Techcrunch)
  Google open-sourced its TensorFlow machine learning framework back in 2015 and it quickly became one of the most popular platforms of its k…
• BigPanda gets its horn after securing $190M in fresh capital | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company’s technology transforms huge volumes of IT data into actionable insight and automates incident management so IT operations team…
• Unacademy tells employees to chase profitability at all costs (Techcrunch)
  Unacademy, Vedantu and Lido each cut their workforce in recent months to eliminate redundancies and improve their financial performances.
• PayPal's new credit card pays 3% cash back on all PayPal purchases | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Pay Pal is revamping its co-branded Pay Pal Cashback Mastercard credit card, issued by Synchrony, which will now give users 3% cash back wh…
• Sila buys new factory to produce next-gen EV battery tech on US soil (Techcrunch)
  The 600,000-square-foot factory in Moses Lake, Washington, will start producing automotive-scale quantities of Sila’s battery tech by the s…
• Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech (Techcrunch)
  Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an intern…
• JusticeText raises $2.2M to increase transparency in criminal evidence-gathering | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company currently works with 50 public defender agencies and has around 60 clients who are private criminal defense attorneys.
• Mike Cagney is right now testing the boundaries of the US banking system (Techcrunch)
  Founder Mike Cagney is always pushing the envelope, and investors love him for it.
• X rival Bluesky hits 2M users, says federation coming 'early next year' (Techcrunch)
  Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced today it has hit 2 million users — up by another million…
• Revisiting Jumia’s JForce scandal and Citron's short-sell claims (Techcrunch)
  In advance of Jumia’s November financial reporting, it’s worth revisiting the company’s second-quarter results, the downside of which inclu…
• Cryptocurrency site leaked unencrypted user credit cards (Techcrunch)
  A cryptocurrency loan startup exposed reams of customer credit cards and user transactions for almost a month — because it forgot to protec…
• Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI (Techcrunch)
  Intentionally poisoning someone else is never morally right. But if someone in the office keeps swiping your lunch, wouldn't you resort to…
• A hard rain is coming for UK's crypto boom (Techcrunch)
  The U.K.’s ad-fuelled boom in crypto trading looks to be headed for major speed restrictions: The country’s financial watchdog said it will…
• DOJ claims green bubbles are an issue in iPhone monopoly suit (Techcrunch)
  The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple earlier today.
• Watch Google unveil the Pixel Watch and Pixel 7 here (Techcrunch)
  Google is set to debut the Pixel 7, Pixel Watch and more at today's Made By Google event in Brooklyn.
• This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words (Techcrunch)
  The reality-bending powers of AI have been kept increasingly busy over the past decade.
• The space industry is starting a green revolution (Techcrunch)
  Five to ten years ago, you would have struggled to find anyone, anywhere connecting the words 'sustainability' and 'space.'
• Sequoia India backs Prismforce to help IT companies build better talent supply chains (Techcrunch)
  startup helping IT and tech services companies build better talent supply chains, has raised $13.6 million in a funding led by Sequoia Capi…
• Pure Storage announces next generation Flash arrays (Techcrunch)
  Pure Storage, which went public in 2015, has been focused on mainstreaming Flash since its earliest days.
• How I went from a college dorm brainstorm to leading edtech (Techcrunch)
  StuDocu co-founder and CEO Marnix Broer shares his journey of building and scaling the study resources sharing platform.
• Andrew Mason's Audio Tour App Detour Goes Live And Hits The App Store (Techcrunch)
  Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason wants to help tourists and locals in San Francisco to wander around and discover parts of the c…
• Binance and CEO ‘CZ’ plead guilty to federal charges, agreed to pay $4.3B in fines | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  It’s been an eventful week for crypto exchanges and the U.S.
• Truebill raises $45 million for its personal finance app | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Personal finance startup Truebill has raised a $45 million Series D funding round led by Accel.
• Fintech startup Finerio secures $6.5M to create open finance ecosystem in Latin America | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  In the past year, Finerio created an API hub for digital payments, credit and personal finance management.
• Software snafus abound, Nuro makes more cuts and VinFast takes the SPAC road | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  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.
• After the acquisition: 3 startup executives share their exit experiences (Techcrunch)
  In Part 1 of this series, we spoke to acquiring companies about the deal and how they integrate acquired firms.
• Redfin real estate site prices IPO at $15, valuing company at $1.2 billion | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Redfin, the real estate site based in Seattle, has finally raised its IPO. Founded in 2004, this was 13 years in the making.
• Iterative launches MLEM, a tool to simplify ML model deployment (Techcrunch)
  MLOps platform Iterative, which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open source Git-b…
• As AI consumes search, what will be left for us humans? (Techcrunch)
  I hope that you'll still want to read my stuff in the future. If not, at least I probably helped train my replacement.
• How Robert Reffkin went from being a C-average student to the founder of Compass (Techcrunch)
  In April, real estate tech company Compass forged ahead with its initial public offering and is now valued at several billions of dollars.
• Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues (Techcrunch)
  Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automation’s impact on the jobs market.
• Thousands of medical injury claim records exposed by ad agency (Techcrunch)
  An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database th…
• Lightspeed raises $500M for new India/Southeast Asia fund (Techcrunch)
  Lightspeed began investing in India over 10 years ago and has amassed an impressive portfolio of several fast-growing startups.
• Volkswagen in talks to buy Huawei's autonomous driving unit: report (Techcrunch)
  The autonomous driving space might be seeing the marriage of two titans.
• Brazil's Loft adds $100M to its accounts, $700M to its valuation in a single month | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Nearly exactly one month ago, digital real estate platform Loft announced it had closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York…
• Selkie founder defends use of AI in new dress collection amid backlash (Techcrunch)
  When Selkie, the fashion brand viral on Instagram and TikTok for its frothy, extravagant dresses, announces new collections, reception is g…
• Nowhere to hide: The emissions threat facing corporate America | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Businesses across industries and throughout the world are facing an existential threat that can no longer be ignored.
• A new venture firm focused on real estate has raised $212 million from real estate industry giants (Techcrunch)
  L.A.-based venture firm Fifth Wall Ventures invests in startups that are benefiting from changes in the real estate market, and they turned…
• Amazon is going to make it easier to load your own books onto Kindle (Techcrunch)
  a company that could bear to have a bit better of an ethical track record.
• The Station: Rivian rolls towards an IPO and Quantumscape makes a big battery hire (Techcrunch)
  The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.
• Hustle Fund doubles down on its mission to build the ‘YC of angel investing’ | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  To date, Hustle Fund's Angel Squad has invested $23 million via special purpose vehicles (SPVs) into 65 deals.
• Apple shares more details about its imminent App Tracking Transparency feature (Techcrunch)
  Apple is sharing more details today about its upcoming App Tracking Transparency feature, which will allow users to control, on an app-by-a…
• Edtech exits show a need for better plumbing (Techcrunch)
  The world’s massive experiment with remote learning has done more than emphasize the cracks in the way we learn.
• More from the US v Google trial: Vertical search, pre-installs and the case of Firefox/Yahoo (Techcrunch)
  Google's most lucrative search terms, revenue-sharing to pre-install Google apps on Android phones, Mozilla comes to the defense and more.