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• Cyberattack on legal tech provider causing widespread disruption to UK law firms (Techcrunch)
  The U.K.'s data protection regulator said it has received notice from the affected IT provider, suggesting evidence of a possible data brea…
• The Pure Storage IPO In Context (Techcrunch)
  The company seems to be doing great, so why wasn’t there a big pop from the last private round and from the IPO?
• Brazilian lending company Creditas raises $255 million as Latin America's fintech explosion (Techcrunch)
  Creditas, the Brazilian lending business, has raised $255 million in new financing as financial services startups across Latin America cont…
• Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The French company has raised €385 million ($415 million).
• Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Traditional MBA programs can be costly, lengthy and often lack the application of real-world skills.
• Sprout.ai raises $11M Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries.
• BMW hedges its EV bet, appears poised to repeat mistakes of the past (Techcrunch)
  BMW is on the verge of creating another compromise platform that could hamstring its EV efforts.
• Port internal development platform gives visibility into DevOps architecture (Techcrunch)
  Port helps give engineering visibility into DevOps architecture, while making it easier to allocate resources, all from a web portal.
• Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors (Techcrunch)
  Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company.
• Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google (Techcrunch)
  In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
• Cyware nabs $30M to help organizations detect and stop advanced cyberattacks | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Malicious hacking has become a pernicious and dogged fact of life for more organizations, and it’s a threat that has seemingly grown more c…
• When life gives you carbon, make Carbonaide (Techcrunch)
  Finnish startup Carbonaide has just raised €1.8 million in seed funding to knock down concrete’s carbon emissions but not the construction…
• Apple, Google questioned by UK's ICO over age app ratings (Techcrunch)
  The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has written to Apple and Google seeking details of how they assess apps to determine the age ratings th…
• Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery app, raises $200 million (Techcrunch)
  Instant grocery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its 10-minute-delivery service to more…
• Privado is ‘Grammarly for code privacy issues’ (Techcrunch)
  Privado wants to make it easier for developers to keep user data under wraps.
• Renowned founder Brian Lee and Derek Jeter have a new sports card biz with a digital bent (Techcrunch)
  L.A.-based entrepreneur Brian Lee, who previously co-founded and ran The Honest Company, Shoe Dazzle.com and Legal Zoom, has launched a new…
• Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative (Techcrunch)
  At last year's Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Ini…
• India alleges a16z-backed CoinSwitch violated forex laws, searches offices (Techcrunch)
  India's financial crime-fighting agency searched premises of the Bengaluru-headquartered crypto exchange startup CoinSwitch Kuber, sources…
• Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier (Techcrunch)
  Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world.
• DuploCloud lands $32M infusion to make provisioning cloud apps easier | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  DuploCloud, a platform designed to make it easier to deploy and provision cloud apps, has raised $32 million in a funding round.
• a16z plans $500 million investment in Indian startups (Techcrunch)
  Andreessen Horowitz is looking to get aggressive in India; it has earmarked about $500 million to back Indian startups, a source told TechC…
• In the fight against methane, a key GHG, Valley investors have hit upon an unusual target: Cow burps (Techcrunch)
  What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common? They are both trying to stop cows from burping methane.
• Personal finance app Monarch sees bump in users following Intuit's news it is closing Mint (Techcrunch)
  1 “was our biggest day in terms of new users since we launched the app” in January 2021.
• Two-year-old Day One Ventures raises new $52.5M fund to invest in Valley startups | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Back in 2018, Day One Ventures launched in Silicon Valley specifically designed to be both a VC and an investor that would also lead market…
• Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Otterize, a platform that offers tools to help developers securely connect software services, has raised $11.5 million in a venture round.
• Alibaba’s Ant Financial may have won the bidding war for MoneyGram after upping its offer to $1.2B (Techcrunch)
  Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate company focused on financial services, appears to have finally won its battle with Euronet to acquire…
• Budgeting app Copilot is booming now that Mint is dead, leading to $6M Series A | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company reached profitability in 2023, however, more customers began asking for web and Android capabilities so they could share Copilo…
• Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests (Techcrunch)
  Most consent pop-ups served to internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission to track people’s web activity — are li…
• Anthos Capital and NBA All-Star Baron Davis back LA-based college tuition savings service, UNest (Techcrunch)
  UNest, a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents, including college savings plans and other beneficial inv…
• The transportation stories that drove 2022 (Techcrunch)
  2022 was dominated by conversations about self-driving cars, gig worker economy, micromobility dramas and, of course, all things Tesla.
• Selina raises $150M to dish out flexible loans that leverage home equity | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money,…
• Data analytics startup StarTree secures cash to expand its Pinot-powered platform (Techcrunch)
  StarTree, a startup commercializing the open source project Apache Pinot, has raised a Series B round of venture capital.
• Why Amazon built a home robot (Techcrunch)
  iRobot’s CEO once told me, with a wink, that he didn’t become a truly successful roboticist until he became a vacuum salesman.
• Europe’s top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins (Techcrunch)
  Europe's top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook 'Like' button and receive visitors from t…
• Bored Apes maker Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks NFT collection | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Bored Apes Yacht Club maker Yuga Labs announced Friday that they have acquired the rights to the Crypto Punks and Meebits NFT collections f…
• Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale.
• Sample Series A pitch deck: Faye's $10M deck | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Here's a full teardown of Faye's 19-slide pitch deck with which it raised a $10 million Series A round.
• Who will the winners be in the future of fintech? (Techcrunch)
  In a world where people access their financial services through one universal hub, which companies are the best-positioned to win?
• Bitsight buys dark web security specialist Cybersixgill for $115M | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity.
• Why watch a movie when you can watch your corporate all-hands meeting? (Techcrunch)
  With Zoom, AMC Theatres will launch a product called Zoom Rooms next year. Yes, you go to the movie theater to join a Zoom meeting.
• Fintech predictions and opportunities for 2023 (Techcrunch)
  While 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 will be a year of recalibration for fintech companies.
• Lightyear is on a mission to modernize network procurement (Techcrunch)
  Dennis Thankachan isn't someone you'd expect would launch a digital procurement startup.
• JioMart, the e-commerce venture from India's richest man, launches in 200 cities and towns (Techcrunch)
  The rationale behind the deluge of dollars flooding into billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Platforms is beginning to become more cle…
• Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into space (Techcrunch)
  Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time.
• Waze is making it easier for EV owners to find compatible charging points (Techcrunch)
  Google-owned mapping app Waze is adding a new feature that seeks to help EV owners find a compatible charger en route.
• Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Faber Tech Fund III will target pre-seed and seed-stage startups in deep tech, AI, robotics and biotech across Portugal, Spain and the Neth…
• AWS pledges $100M in cloud credits to help education organizations build learning tools | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, today announced the Education Equity Initiative, which aims to provide “education organizations with te…
• Ford will pay up to $165M fine for rearview camera recall failures | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ford has agreed to pay a $165 million penalty to federal regulators after moving too slowly to recall vehicles with faulty rearview cameras.
• Apple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alerts (Techcrunch)
  Apple is pausing AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for generating inaccurate news alerts.
• Some shareholders of rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The $1 billion acquisition of rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes, which was announced Wednesday, is expected to leave some shareholders withou…