IT総合 Matter Venture Partners raises $300M first fund to invest in ‘hard tech’
Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of "hard tech."
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IT総合 IT総合 Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs.
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IT総合 Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million
Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its progra...
IT総合 Maju Kuruvilla is out as CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt
Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head ...
IT総合 Budgeting app Copilot is booming now that Mint is dead, leading to $6M Series A
The company reached profitability in 2023, however, more customers began asking for web and Android capabilities so they...
IT総合 Ethos Fund closes first fund to invest in founders bridging U.S. and Vietnamese tech ecosystems
The five-person firm is one of the few, if not the only, funds focused exclusively on strengthening opportunities betwee...
IT総合 Poseidona is removing invasive algae from oceans and turning it into food
Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-stream...
IT総合 Griffin Bank has a license to thrill
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. ...
IT総合 Stripe’s growth continues to impress as total payment volume tops $1T
The company says it was cash flow positive in 2023, and plans to be again in 2024. With $8.7 billion in venture capital ...
IT総合 Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to create new AI-guided proteins
By using cell-free technology, Tierra is able to cut down protein manufacturing from months to weeks and enable customer...
IT総合 Artemis Fund has a fresh $36 million to back diverse founders solving ‘big, hairy problems’
For Fund II, Artemis intends to continue leading and co-leading investments and will target around 20 new companies.
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IT総合 Cultivated Biosciences poised to take its plant-based cream to market in 2025
The company went public in December with its first proof-of-concept coffee creamer that remains stable when added to hot...
IT総合 SOLO’s new credit bureau concept helps lenders ditch third-party data
Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn't have bank accounts.
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IT総合 2-year-old LatAm fintech Yuno reaches $150M valuation with backing from DST, Tiger, a16z
The company launched its payments orchestration product in 2022 and provides over 300 payment methods with fraud detecti...
IT総合 Topsort helps e-commerce create ads without being ‘creepy’
Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising.
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IT総合 MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Swayy’s app to tell friends where you’ll be next
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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IT総合 Rants, AI and other notes from Upfront Summit
Venture capitalists were in Los Angeles this week for the Upfront Summit, an invite-only conference with celebrity sight...
IT総合 MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Nothing Phone (2a), 4FYN winner
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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IT総合 Inspired Capital secures $330M fund to take venture capital ‘back to the studs’
As part of the new fund, Inspired Capital wrote a manifesto that highlights how the venture capital firm thinks, what it...
IT総合 Coverdash gathers insurance’s biggest carriers so SMBs can get coverage in minutes
A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and...
IT総合 MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Nothing Phone (2a), 4FYN pitch finalists
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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IT総合 MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including a ‘rollable’ Motorola concept phone
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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IT総合 Zacua Ventures has launched a new $56 million fund dedicated to construction tech
Zacua, which has a regional presence in San Francisco, Madrid, Mexico and Singapore, is targeting startups addressing su...
IT総合 MWC 2024: Everything announced so far
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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IT総合 Darwin AI gives small LatAm companies AI-powered sales assistant
Darwin AI’s system that connects with a company’s customer relationship management tool and evaluates possible sales lea...
IT総合 Ingrediome believes it can solve the lab grown protein taste problem
The co-founders of Israeli food tech startup Ingrediome, an alum of SOSV’s Indie Bio program, say they are inventing bet...
IT総合 Golden Ventures secures another $100M to invest in Canada’s tech ecosystem
Golden Ventures' fifth fund targets seed-stage founders working across technologies, including AI, climate, blockchain a...
IT総合 AddGlow takes on Reddit, Facebook with community-building software for brands
The New York-based startup collects data via profile attributes specified by the brand in order to personalize the homep...
IT総合 Zūm Rails takes in first capital to launch new banking-as-a-service, FedNow offerings
Zūm Rails manages the flow of money by verifying a customer’s identity, linking directly with bank accounts and facilita...
IT総合 Goldman Sachs bets on Simetrik’s payments infrastructure tech
Simetrik created the Simetrik Building Blocks, scalable and adaptable concepts based on no-code development and generati...