Kindred Capital, the London-based VC that backs early-stage founders in Europe, has closed its second seed fund at £81 million.That’s only a tad larger than the the firm’s first fund, whic
We started this competition with 20 impressive startups. After four days of fierce pitching in a wholly new virtual Startup Battlefield arena, we have a winner.The startups taking part in the Startup
FILE PHOTO: Armand Duplantis of Sweden competes in the Men's Pole Vault final during the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019. /VCG Image Sweden's Armand Duplantis on Thursday set a new pol
The Philippines is considering allowing more nurses and other medical professionals to leave for jobs abroad after banning them from travel so they can fight coronaviru
Twitter is taking steps to tighten account security for a range of users ahead of the US presidential election, including by requiring the use of strong passwords.“We’re taking the additional s
Daniel Arlow has spent the last eighteen years studying genomics and synthetic biology. The arc of his career has taken the first-time founder of the new startup Ansa Biotechnologies from MIT to the f
More consolidation in the thin-margin food delivery space: Delivery Hero has announced it’s buying the LatinAm operations of Glovo, a Spanish on-demand delivery app. The German company said toda
Europe will propose its own digital tax early next year if there’s no agreement at a global level on how to update taxation rules for the Internet age, EU president Ursula von der Leyen said tod
Crista Galli Ventures, an early-stage healthtech fund in Europe, is officially launching today. The firm offers “patient capital” — with only a single LP (the Danish family office IP
Freelance marketplace Fiverr launched a new service today designed to help teams at larger companies manage their work with freelancers.CEO Micha Kaufman told me via email that Fiverr had already begu
As expected, the centerpiece of today’s big hardware event is the latest version of the Series 6. Apple continues to utterly dominate the smartwatch category, with the company currently commandi
A former Facebook data scientist dropped a detailed, damning memo on her last day there, calling the social network out for what she describes as an arbitrary, slow, and generally inadequate response
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined TechCrunch editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapma
Welcome back to Human Capital, where we unpack the latest in tech labor and diversity and inclusion. This week, we’re looking at the latest developments in the battle over the classification of
A massive content recommendation merger falls apart, Microsoft reveals the release date and pricing for its flagship game console and Alexa enables phone calls for ATT customers. This is your Daily Cr
Ireland’s data protection watchdog, the DPC, has sent Facebook a preliminary order to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with
Women founders who exhibit in Digital Startup Alley at Disrupt 2020, this opportunity’s designed with you in mind. Don’t miss your chance to meet with — and pitch to — accelerators focused on women en
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