text

Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

Open-source business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners.Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives the San F

text

Tiger Global backs Nacelle with $50M for its e-commerce infrastructure

Consumer shift to buying online during the global pandemic — and keeping that habit — continues to boost revenue for makers of developer tools that help e-commerce sites provide better shopping experi

text

Biden's eviction ban raises serious constitutional issues

On Aug. 3, the Biden administration reinstituted a nationwide eviction moratorium to extend the one that had expired on July 31.The administration took this executive a

text

Haiti quake death toll rises to 2,189

The confirmed death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14 has risen to 2,189, local civil protection authorities said on Wednesday.Flooding and heavy rains over the past

text

Japanese F1 race canceled for second year in a row

The F1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka circuit in Suzuka, Japan, October 13, 2019. /CFP The Japanese F1 Grand Prix has been canceled due to the COVID-19 for the second year in a row, race organi

text

Baidu unveils 1st fully autonomous robocar prototype

Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its first L5 self-driving robocar prototype with no steering wheel, and an upgraded autonomous driving se

text

Biden says Afghanistan withdrawal 'chaos' unavoidable

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that he did not see a way to withdraw from Afghanistan without "chaos ensuing."Biden, who is facing mounting criticism from th

text

Swipe no more: End of the magnetic security strip?

Could the end of the strip be the beginning of the end for the plastic card? /AP/Keith Strakocic The magnetic strip on the back of a credit or payment card is ubiquitous, but for how much lon

text

Apple’s CSAM detection tech is under fire — again

Apple has encountered monumental backlash to a new child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detection technology it announced earlier this month. The system, which Apple calls NeuralHash, has yet to be acti

text

Sequoia’s Stephanie Zhan and Rec Room’s Nick Fajt are joining us on Extra Crunch Live

Sequoia is one of the most prestigious and successful venture firms to ever exist. The firm’s portfolio includes Airbnb, 23andMe, Docker, Dropbox, Figma and GitHub — and that barely covers

text

Waze with ‘PAW Patrol’ voices sounds like a chill car ride

Waze might have a way to keep your kids entertained during a drive without handing them a tablet: distract them with your navigation app. The company has added a PAW Patrol experience to Waze that has

text

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

Sam Lessin’s post in The Information, “The End of Venture Capital as We Know It,” prompted heated debate in Silicon Valley. He argued that the arrival of new players with large amounts of capital is c

text

Waymo Via is scaling up autonomous trucking operations in Texas, Arizona, California

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, is building a dedicated trucking hub in Dallas and partnering with Ryder for fleet management services in a two-pronged move to seriously scale up its autonom

text

Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS

Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to

text

Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain

text

Rapid Robotics raises another $36.7M

Rapid Robotics announced a $12 million Series A all the way back in April 2021. Four months later, the Bay Area-based robotic manufacturing firm is back with a $36.7 million Series B, led by Kleiner P

text

Graphics: Virus evolves, U.S. devolves

After months of drop in COVID-19 cases, the pace has risen again in the U.S. since the beginning of July. On August 16, the country's health authority reported 113,993 new confirmed cases. Evoluti