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Hong Kong insurtech startup Coherent gets $14 million Series A led by Cathay Innovation

Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new fund

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MSCHF’s Push Party raises an unconventional round at a $200 million valuation

As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun on the venture industry itself and perhaps publications l

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Tedros urges world to learn from COVID-19 to achieve health security

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for unity. /Fabrice Coffrini/AFP The COVID-19 pandemic can be used as a springboard in the quest to achieve global health

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What challenges does the U.S. face after the presidential election?

I am starting to feel some sentimentality, or even sorrow, about the end of the reign of Donald Trump. Now that he's on the way out, the world will have to face complex

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What challenges does the U.S. face after the presidential election?

I am starting to feel some sentimentality, or even sorrow, about the end of the reign of Donald Trump. Now that he's on the way out, the world will have to face complex

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One America, two nations

Supporters of President Donald Trump protest after the November 3 elections in North Las Vegas, Nevada, the U.S., November 6, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Richard N. Haass is the president of the

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Extra Crunch roundup: B2B marketplaces, edtech M&A, breaking into the $1M ARR club

I’ve worked at TechCrunch for a little over a year, but this was one of the hardest weeks on the job so far.Like many people, I’ve been distracted in recent days. As I write this, I have o

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A better look at Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone Mini

The various iterations of the new iPhone were announced 800 million years ago. Actually, wait, I just double checked — it was only about two or so weeks ago, but it turns out that time has no meaning

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Daily Crunch: Social media confronts election misinformation

You may have heard that the United States had a presidential election yesterday, with plenty of implications for the tech world, particularly with social media as one of the battlegrounds in the fight

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Nervous? Here, watch Philadelphia count votes on a live stream, that should help

No matter whom you support for President, it’s a nerve-wracking morning as many states come down to mere tens of thousands of votes. And perhaps no state looms larger than Pennsylvania, where a

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Brexit: Is it right for Britain to re-write the 'divorce bill'?

Pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit protesters hold flags and placards outside the Parliament in London, Britain, January 14, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note: Richard Fairchild is an associate professor at

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CA ballot measure that keeps gig workers as independent contractors is projected to pass

Uber, Lyft, Instacart and DoorDash — the major backers of California’s Proposition 22 — are getting their way. The proposition, which will keep gig workers classified as independent

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Composition competition composes global tune

2021 Jinji Lake International Composition Competition has been launched by Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. The top winner will be awarded 100,000 yuan and the final round of competition will be held on Jun

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Pandemic’s impact disproportionately reduced VC funding for female founders

The last few quarters did not play out as as expected for venture capitalists or entrepreneurs; instead of a pandemic-fueled recession that cauterized the flow of private investment into startups, the

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Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform

When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a

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Is fintech’s Series A market hot, or just overhyped?

According to industry reports, venture capital deal-making has notably rebounded since dropping off briefly in March as shelter-in-place orders gripped much of the country.As seed-stage fintech inves

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Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm?

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here.Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain