Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Astera Labs IPO will reveal how much investors want in on AI

While the technology world breathlessly awaits Reddit's public debut, another company you might never have heard of is about to go public: Astera Labs.

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India’s electric two-wheeler startups surge to over 150 players as government revs up EV push

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The number of startups in India’s electric two-wheeler market has surged to over 150 from 54 in 2021, driven by government incentives to promote clean vehicles and cut oil imports, according to a new analysis. The influx has intensified competition in a segment expected to grow 15-20 times to annual sales of 15-20 million units […]

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Cure51 raises a €15M Seed round aiming to crack the code on cancer survival

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Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had another idea. They decided to turn the model around 180 degrees. Instead, the company assembles data about long term survivors of cancer, thus hoping to crack the code on what keeps people alive. It’s now raised a […]

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The Carevoice raises $10M Series B, bucking the funding slowdown in health tech

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The field of insurance technology has had a rough time. About 7 years ago, early insurtech companies promised to disrupt the insurance industry with new tech, but today, most of those companies have either been acquired or are floundering in the public markets. Fortunately, insurtech has found a new wave to ride in the past […]

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Cowboy launches all-road electric bike to attract riders beyond European city centers

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Cowboy is better known for its sleek electric bikes that you can see in many major cities across Europe. And if you look at the persons riding those Cowboy bikes, most of the time, you’ll see a young adult heading to an office with a laptop in a backpack. That’s why the company is launching […]

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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too

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Payments company Nala pivoted to offer remittance service in 2021, tapping the growing money transfer market in Africa, and demand for reliable and affordable services. Nala founder, Benjamin Fernandes, said they intended to build their products on this premise right from the outset. Over the last two years, the Tanzanian fintech, through its consumer fintech […]

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How crypto exchange Backpack climbed its way to success after its major investor FTX died

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Backpack’s founders, who are building a crypto exchange and wallet, have experienced strong growth since launching in 2022. But the road wasn’t easy. FTX co-led Backpack’s $20 million strategic investment round in September 2022. Less than two months later, in November, 2022, FTX collapsed. “We lost 80% of the operating capital on FTX. We spent […]

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Linktree is now allowing users to highlight links better with featured layout function

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Link-in-bio startup Linktree introduced new features today including a featured layout to highlight links better, the ability to fetch the latest posts from Instagram, and support for a more prominent profile picture. The company said that the new featured layout is great for highlighting certain links. When you select “Featured layout” for a link it […]

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Honda’s hydrogen fuel cell powered CR-V isn’t as dumb as you think

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Just like battery-electric cars 20 years ago, hydrogen fuel cell cars suffer from the old chicken and the egg problem. Nobody wants to buy a fuel cell vehicle until the supporting infrastructure is in place, but it’s tough to invest in infrastructure when nobody owns a fuel cell vehicle. Honda says it’s playing the long […]

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Ethos Fund closes first fund to invest in founders bridging U.S. and Vietnamese tech ecosystems

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The five-person firm is one of the few, if not the only, funds focused exclusively on strengthening opportunities between these two countries.

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Facebook is trying to make ‘poking’ cool again

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Remember when you would “poke” your friends on Facebook to get their attention, annoy them or just start a poke war? Well, Facebook is trying to bring back that experience with some small updates to the poking feature. The company announced on Tuesday that it recently improved the platform’s suggestions on who to poke and […]

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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too

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Ingrid receives $23M to expand an e-commerce delivery platform that snubs ‘free shipping’

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Ingrid — a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden, not this writer (unfortunately) — has raised €21 million, or just under $23 million, to fuel the growth of a business aiming to improve the last, messy mile of online shopping, delivery. Using data science and some big ideas about how delivery will evolve in the years […]

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Uber leads $100M investment in African mobility fintech Moove as valuation hits $750M

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Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers, has raised $100 million in a funding round as it plots expansion into new markets. Moove did not say who is leading the round, but sources close to the deal confirmed to TechCrunch that Uber led the Series B round, […]

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Mintlify says customer GitHub tokens exposed in data breach

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Documentation startup Mintlify says dozens of customers had GitHub tokens exposed in a data breach at the start of the month and publicly disclosed last week. Mintlify helps developers create documentation for their software and source code by requesting access and tapping directly into the customer’s GitHub source code repositories. Mintlify counts fintech, database and […]

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