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• 5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought (Techcrunch)
  Green startups now need to refine their strategies for raising VC money during the scaling stage, especially when they begin assessing thei…
• Sourceful grabs $20M to make more packaging less polluting (Techcrunch)
  Sourceful, an Index Ventures-backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year afte…
• Google’s Pixel Watch 2 offers solid upgrades (Techcrunch)
  Google’s Pixel Watch 2 offers some solids updates, though the $349 smartwatch isn’t worth the upgrade for most.
• An Apple Store in Atlanta is the first to file for a union election (Techcrunch)
  Apple retail workers in Atlanta became the first US Apple store workers to reach a crucial step in the formal unionization process: filing…
• Aerotime aims to continuously optimize workers' calendars (Techcrunch)
  Aerotime, a platform that automatically optimizes workers' calendars, is launching in general availability with $2 million in a seed fundin…
• Descript raises $30M to build the next generation of video and audio editing tools | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The popularity of podcasting and online video shows no signs of slowing down, and so we continue to see a wave of creators publishing a pro…
• Now with $5M, Leal invests in AI-driven customer engagement for LatAm merchants | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Leal enables merchants to create a customer database to then offer cashback and rewards products to loyal shoppers on everyday purchases.
• Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks (Techcrunch)
  Startups no longer have to pretend that they’re going to be the Next Big Thing in electrified mobility -- they can acknowledge that they ha…
• LF Europe’s Project Sylva wants to create an open source telco cloud stack (Techcrunch)
  The Linux Foundation Europe today launched Project Sylva, a project that aims to build an open-source telco cloud stack for Europe.
• Forget banks: Investors should be worrying about the climate (Techcrunch)
  There are a handful of investors who understand the size of the problem — and opportunity.
• SoundCloud acquires Musiio, an AI music curator (Techcrunch)
  An online audio sharing platform and streamer, Sound Cloud has acquired Musiio, an AI music curation company.
• Hackers accessed sensitive health data of more than 8 million Welltok patients (Techcrunch)
  Welltok says 1.6 million patients had their data stolen. But disclosures by three healthcare providers puts the number much higher.
• Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week s…
• Helios wants to tame the microservices development chaos (Techcrunch)
  Helios wants to make it easier for developers to understand, troubleshoot and test their distributed systems during the development phase.
• Fixify blends automation and human analysts to tackle IT problems (Techcrunch)
  Fixify, a startup developing a platform that blends automation and an in-house team of analysts to solve IT issues, has raised capital.
• Twilio hacked by phishing campaign (Techcrunch)
  TechCrunch has learned that the same actor also targeted another U.S. internet company and several international IT companies.
• Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C (Techcrunch)
  Gorgias' technology brings all of the channels that shoppers use to contact online stores into one feed for each company.
• Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, 'mango' seed rounds, Expensify's tech stack (Techcrunch)
  Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is alwa…
• Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to Google Maps Platform (Techcrunch)
  Google is bringing Gemini model capabilities to the Google Maps platform for developers, the company announced at I/O.
• SoftBank bets on ex-Argo AI founders, Flexport's founder cleans house and Cruise digs in (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.
• Apple Card’s Savings account reaches over $10B in deposits | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Apple Card’s high-yield Savings account offered by Goldman Sachs has reached over $10 billion in deposits from users since launching in Apr…
• Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027 | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Intuitive Machines, the venture-backed startup that went public last year, will send a moon lander to the lunar south pole in 2027 as part…
• Losses at SoftBank's Vision Funds have consumed nearly all their historical gains (Techcrunch)
  The Vision Fund was always a funded vision; today we learned just how cloudy that perspective is proving.
• Southeast Asian credit fintech Kredivo scores $270M Series D | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still wintery, but one fintech has managed to land a major round.
• EU-US trans-Atlantic data transfers 'deal in principle' faces tough legal review | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The political agreement reached late last month between the European Union and the United States on a new trans-Atlantic data transfers pac…
• Michigan is becoming the center of US battery manufacturing (Techcrunch)
  New investments from Gotion and Our Next Energy to build battery plants in Michigan position the state as a top electrification supplier.
• Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube (Techcrunch)
  Google is rolling out AI-generated quizzes on academic content on YouTube. These new features are rolling out to select Android users in th…
• Tesla, SpaceX alums stalk energy sector’s white whale with $2 million seed round | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Hgen hopes its "whole widget" approach to hydrogen production can decarbonize heavy industry and long-haul shipping.
• Cycode acquires Bearer to accelerate its move into AI-enhanced security remediation | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Cycode is a well-funded startup that offers an end-to-end application security posture management platform — that is, a tool that continuou…
• Tesla doesn’t need to hit the panic button over China heat wave disruptions just yet (Techcrunch)
  Some parts of China are suffering from record high temperatures in the past few weeks, prompting local governments to halt industrial power…
• Detour, Andrew Mason's Audio Tour App, Goes Global And Expands To 6 More Cities (Techcrunch)
  As the summer travel season goes into full swing, a travel app that hopes to give you a new way of experiencing physical spaces is growing.
• Firewalla launches its Purple gigabit home firewall | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Firewalla has started shipping its diminutive $319 gigabit firewall and router.
• Paddle, the company that wants to take on Apple in IAP, raises $200M at a $1.4B valuation (Techcrunch)
  Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and…
• Spectral raises $23M to help create web3 credit scores (Techcrunch)
  The long-term vision for Spectral, a credit risk assessment infrastructure web3 startup, is to make credit scoring a publicly accessible ne…
• Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud (Techcrunch)
  Microsoft announced two new security services aimed at detecting and remediating issues with code across cloud environments.
• Early-stage African VC firm Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19 (Techcrunch)
  In a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that early-stage startups on the African continent are continuing to see some notabl…
• Apple’s 14- and 16-inch M3 MacBook Pros arrive in ‘Space Black’ color, starting at $1,599 (Techcrunch)
  Apple just announced an of its first-party silicon line, and the M3, the MacBook Pro line is easily the biggest winner.
• Antisocial media? (Techcrunch)
  As Facebook finds itself publicly on the hook for enabling Russian agents to spread divisive propaganda via its platform, be it in the form…
• Procurement management software startup Oro Labs lands $34M investment | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Oro Labs, a procurement management software startup, has raised $34 million in a venture-led funding round.
• Discord's reported $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges (Techcrunch)
  There's a lot of news this morning, so let's discuss all the big dollars before YC demo day kicks off.
• Félix Pago raises $15.5 million to help Latino workers send money home via WhatsApp | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  to their families and friends in Latin America amounted to $155 billion in 2023. With such a huge opportunity, banks, money transfer compan…
• IRS FUD: What you need to know about crypto taxes (Techcrunch)
  The cost of failing to report — or incorrect reporting of — proceeds from crypto-related activities could be extremely high if the IRS gets…
• Apple debuts macOS 14 Sonoma (Techcrunch)
  Public beta of macOS 14 - Sonoma - should be dropping over the coming weeks, with general availability following at some point later this y…
• Valoreo closes on $50M to roll up LatAm e-commerce brands | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale.
• Data experts on Facebook's GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits (Techcrunch)
  Make no mistake: Fresh battle lines are being drawn in the clash between data-mining tech giants and Internet users over people’s right to…
• Sprinklr’s IPO filing shows uneven cash flow but modest growth (Techcrunch)
  With American stocks back near record highs, it could be a propitious moment to list for software companies that lack impressive top-line e…
• Facebook highlights small business impact in Apple battle (Techcrunch)
  Facebook already made it clear that it isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming restrictions on app tracking and ad targeting, but the publicity…
• FinanZero, Brazil’s free online credit marketplace, raises $7M | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Finan Zero, a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding — its fourth since it l…
• Sequoia splits China and India arms from US mothership to avoid 'portfolio conflict' and 'market (Techcrunch)
  Sequoia plans to split into three entities — Sequoia Capital in the U.S. and Europe, Peak XV Partners in India and Southeast Asia, and Hong…
• Microsoft launches a new remote help service for IT teams (Techcrunch)
  As part of its larger "Future of Hybrid Work" event, Microsoft launched some updates to Endpoint Manager, with the promise to expand on the…