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• Lessons we learned from the last week of fintech earnings (Techcrunch)
  Let’s examine a series of winning fintech results from BNPL, consumer finance, proptech and corporate finance before turning to fintech's e…
• More deceptive cookie banners targeted in latest noyb EU action (Techcrunch)
  European advocacy group noyb has fired off a second batch of consent complaints (270 in total) targeting websites in the region that it say…
• ByteDance-owned VR startup Pico strengthens ties with Qualcomm (Techcrunch)
  Pico, the Chinese virtual reality startup bought by Tik Tok parent Byte Dance back in August, has struck a major partnership with Qualcomm…
• DryMerge promises to connect apps that normally don't talk to each other (Techcrunch)
  DryMerge, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is building a platform that taps AI to generate automation workflows across different apps.
• Twilio says breach compromised Authy two-factor app users (Techcrunch)
  Hackers gained access to the accounts of 93 Authy users and registered additional devices.
• Argo AI kicks into high gear to build a business out of AV tech (Techcrunch)
  Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle developer backed by Ford and VW Group, revealed this week an ecosystem of products and services designed to…
• TechCrunch+ Roundup: New life for old B2B leads, LatAm VC survey, treasury management basics (Techcrunch)
  It’s shaping up to be a very busy week, so we’ll be back on Friday, September 22 with a new TC+ Roundup.
• 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream (Techcrunch)
  The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullis…
• We need app store competition, not Apple's 1960s-style paternalistic monopoly (Techcrunch)
  Big tech companies want to scare people with dire warnings that proposed federal bills would put their security in jeopardy.
• Reid Hoffman's latest book gives us 10 ways to rethink entrepreneurship (Techcrunch)
  When you’re in the mood for a pep talk, who better to turn to than a well-networked, optimistic mentor who is naturally in your corner?
• AI startup Hebbia raised $130M at a $700M valuation on $13 million of profitable revenue (Techcrunch)
  Hebbia, a startup that uses generative AI to search large documents and respond to large questions, has raised a $130 million Series B at a…
• Sigmoid raises $12 million to scale its data engineering and analytics platform | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Sequoia Capital India has invested $19.3 million in nine-year Sigmoid to date, according to a statement.
• New Greylock venture partner Mustafa Suleyman is looking for AI’s next best thing | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Suleyman says the time has come for AI due to the ecosystem maturing and more people understand the strengths and limitations of AI and how…
• Singularity Energy raises seed round to decarbonize the grid (Techcrunch)
  Singularity Energy provides details about the carbon intensity on the grid at any given moment, and uses machine learning to predict spikes…
• Pure Storage Falls In Public Debut, CEO Optimistic (Techcrunch)
  Pure Storage, the enterprise storage company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday.
• Pure Storage Raises Another $40M To Bring Europe Its Flash Storage Products, Index's Mike Volpi (Techcrunch)
  Another big round of funding for an enterprise startup that only exited stealth mode a year ago.
• This Week in Apps: Apps blocking Russia, Walmart adds virtual try-on, Netflix's trivia game (Techcrunch)
  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overa…
• Facebook’s latest ‘transparency’ tool doesn’t offer much (Techcrunch)
  Just under a month ago Facebook switched on global availability of a tool which affords users a glimpse into the murky world of tracking th…
• The answers to real estate's climate tech questions may be all around us (Techcrunch)
  For those who do care, there is no shortage of confusion on how to best tackle the looming threat of climate change.
• Descript, Andrew Mason's platform to edit audio by editing text, now lets you edit video, too (Techcrunch)
  Descript, the latest startup from Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason, made a splash in the world of audio last year with a platform for easy a…
• Homebuying startup Flyhomes closes $150 million Series C | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Amid a recent tear in residential real estate investment, venture capitalists are looking to get a piece of homebuying startup Flyhomes.
• Quicken, one of the 'first fintechs,' is being sold again (Techcrunch)
  Five and a half years after being acquired by a private equity firm, personal finance software company Quicken is announcing that it is bei…
• Sequoia India's Surge backs AI-powered video creation platform Gan.ai in $5.2M funding | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Gan.ai, an AI-powered video creation platform, raised a $5.2 million seed round led by Surge, Sequoia Capital's rapid scale-up program.
• Verizon-owned cell network Visible confirms hackers accessed user accounts (Techcrunch)
  The incident points to credential stuffing, but Visible doesn't yet offer two-factor authentication.
• What Kai-Fu Lee-backed AInnovation tells us about China's smart manufacturing (Techcrunch)
  The enthusiasm to find paying customers for artificial intelligence continues in China.
• Google Pixel Event 2023: Pixel 8, Watch 2 and everything else we expect (Techcrunch)
  Google's annual Pixel hardware event is coming up next week. We expect to see the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel Watch 2.
• Comun channels local banking approach to serve Latino immigrants (Techcrunch)
  Comun offers digital banking services and provides customers with access to native Spanish-speaking reps seven days a week.
• Feds seize Sinbad crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean hackers | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  authorities seized and sanctioned the crypto mixer Sinbad, accused of helping North Korean hackers launder stolen money.
• MoHash raises $6M seed funding to bring sustainable, stable yields to DeFi | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The recent collapse of UST has once again demonstrated that many of the so-called stablecoins in the web3 world today are tied to high-risk…
• Everything Google launched at its Fall 2022 event (Techcrunch)
  Google went all out today with a wall of launches of new hardware and tech. Here's a collection of everything announced at the Made by Goog…
• Honda and LG Energy to build lithium-ion plant in the US (Techcrunch)
  Honda forming joint venture with LG Energy Solutions to supply the North American market with batteries to power electric vehicles from Hon…
• Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience (Techcrunch)
  Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s chief product officer, as its first president.
• Adtech told to keep calm and fix its 'lawfulness' problem (Techcrunch)
  Six months after warning that the real-time bidding (RTB) component of programmatic online advertising is wildly out of control -- i.e.
• 5 tips for dealing with Day 2 Kubernetes operational challenges (Techcrunch)
  Kubernetes is a wonderful but complex software that can present significant "Day Two" challenges when put into production.
• Luminary Cloud's simulator taps GPUs to help speed up product design (Techcrunch)
  Luminary Cloud, a simulator powered by clusters of cloud-hosted GPUs, aims to streamline the process of digitally testing physical product…
• A lot of fintechs 'have to fix their business models,' say VCs who invest in fintech (Techcrunch)
  In a panel discussion hosted by this editor late last week in San Francisco, however, the investors didn't sugarcoat things.
• Google Workspace goes all in on shadow IT (Techcrunch)
  Google today announced a new version of Workspace, Google Workspace Essentials.
• Ocrolus lands $80M at a $500M+ valuation to automate document processing for fintechs and banks (Techcrunch)
  If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process.
• Ford forms automated driving subsidiary from Argo AI's remains | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ford launched a subsidiary — staffed by ex-Argo AI employees — that will try to commercialize a hands-free, eyes-off driver assistance syst…
• Roblox beefs up its developer tools as it looks to a future beyond games (Techcrunch)
  Roblox CTO Dan Sturman talks about how the company is building tools for developers, the challenges of building a tech stack for the masses…
• Thirdweb raises $24M for its web3 development kit (Techcrunch)
  There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to w…
• Ampla raises $40M Series A for its business of providing credit to commerce brands | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ampla Technologies, a startup that provides financing to small-to-medium sized consumer-facing businesses, announced today it has raised $4…
• Fleksy targets devs with SDK platform for smart keyboard features (Techcrunch)
  Fleksy wants to get the developer side of the equation on-board with its paid tools for building smarter keyboards.
• VC doors are wide open for real estate startups (Techcrunch)
  Over the last couple of decades, online streaming, shopping and social networking startups have revolutionized the art of sitting around th…
• As fintech gets more fragmented, Meld helps developers manage their tech stack (Techcrunch)
  Fintech has a fragmentation problem — as the number of fintech products has grown, so too has the number of integrations each service has w…
• CryptoPunks NFT bundle goes for $17 million in Christie's auction | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  A lot of 9 Crypto Punks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another subs…
• Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI (Techcrunch)
  Harvey, a startup using AI to answer legal questions, has secured an investment from OpenAI as well as Google AI head Jeff Dean.
• 5 Reasons you need to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 (Techcrunch)
  Get ready to spend a full day rubbing virtual elbows with the global mobility community’s best and brightest minds and makers.
• Ford-backed Argo AI launches driverless testing in Miami, Austin (Techcrunch)
  Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology company backed by Ford and Volkswagen, is launching driverless testing operations in Miami and A…
• Shopify expands into credit cards as it pushes further into the fintech space (Techcrunch)
  The move into the credit space comes just three months after Shopify began offering its merchants a bill pay product.