A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet
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NAIROBI, Kenya — A fleet of high-altitude balloons started delivering internet service to Kenya on Tuesday, extending online access to tens of thousands of...
K Fund has another €70M to back early-stage Spanish startups and is launching a pre-seed program – TechCrunch
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K Fund is officially outing its fund II today, which sits at €70 million, up from €50 million the first time around.
The remit remains...
OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives – TechCrunch
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OwnBackup has made a name for itself primarily as a backup and disaster recovery system for the Salesforce ecosystem, and today the company announced...
Organise, a platform for worker rights, raises £570K seed funding led by Ada Ventures – TechCrunch
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Organise, a U.K. startup that has built a platform to help workers organise and campaign for better rights, has raised £570,000 in seed funding.
The...
TikTok faces ban in the US; pulls out of Hong Kong – TechCrunch
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The world’s most popular short video app continues to be in the crosshairs of politicians globally.
On Monday night, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told...
Facebook-backed Unacademy acquires PrepLadder for $50 million – TechCrunch
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Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million as the major edtech giant scouts...
Palantir Technologies Files to Go Public
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SAN FRANCISCO — Palantir Technologies, a Silicon Valley data start-up, said on Monday that it had filed to go public, setting up one of...
Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO – TechCrunch
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Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.Â
Its statement for...
Victress Capital, a fund founded by women to back women founders, just closed its second fund – TechCrunch
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Women start 40 percent of the businesses in the U.S., but they receive just 3 percent of venture funding. It doesn’t take a math...
Email is broken and Hey’s Jason Fried is here to fix it – TechCrunch
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Email is a critical tool in modern-day communications, so it’s natural that many entrepreneurs have tried to overhaul it over the years.
In the last...
