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Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $30M led by YC Continuity

Even as more than 150 million people are using digital payment apps each month in India, only about 20 million of them invest in mutual funds and stocks. A startup that is attempting to change that by

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Chief CEO Carolyn Childers, Reboot.io CEO Jerry Colona, Ureeka co-founder Melissa Bradley are coming to Disrupt 2020

Becoming a successful leader isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula. Each startup — depending on the industry and internal culture — has its own needs.The hard part is figuring out what leadership style be

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Building paths to funding for Black female founders

Amid a racial justice reckoning following countless events of police brutality (justice for Breonna Taylor), it’s high time companies and investors in the tech industry do more than just say 

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Student theater festival raises curtain online

Students from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications perform during the Golden Hedgehog College Theater Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] The Golden Hedgehog College Theat

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Some of the brightest minds in Europe are joining us at Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt is right around the corner. And this year, we’re trying something different — we’re taking Disrupt virtual. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we used this opportunity to inv

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Black founders can get tactical advice at Disrupt

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and widespread protests for racial justice, a number of venture capitalists made public statements about wanting to improve diversity in the tech industr

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Learn why embedded finance is the future of fintech at Disrupt

The fintech industry has had a wild couple of years. Consumer fintech startups, such as Robinhood, Revolut and Coinbase, have been massively successful and managed to attract millions of customers. At

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Learn how to scale social impact startups at Disrupt with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica O. Matthews

Hundreds of founders have launched their startups with an aim to change the world. But uttering the words “making the world a better place,” isn’t the same as doing it or doing it we

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Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B

This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate

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Five real reasons to attend Disrupt 2020 online

Why should you attend Disrupt 2020? We live in unprecedented times and face unprecedented challenges. But unprecedented opportunities are also part of this equation, and now is the time for creative s

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Asia Album: Australians shop with caution amid COVID-19

People shop at Carriageworks Farmers Market in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 22, 2020. (Photo by Hu Jingchen/Xinhua)SYDNEY, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Australians shop at Carriageworks Farmers Market under COVI

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Commentary: China's people-centered approach shield against floods, disasters

While visiting the flood-stricken residents in Funan County, east China's Anhui Province, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Co

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SGT sets its 2020 season lineup

The Shanghai Grand Theater has released its 2020 performance-season plan, which consists of 65 performances by 33 productions. It opened on Aug 7 and will run for five months.Shanghai's epidemic-p

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Last chance to save on Disrupt 2020 passes

It’s last call startup fans, last call. We’re not talking about International Beer Day (which is a thing and it’s today — look it up). No, we mean August 7 is your absolute last chance to save up to $

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Russian legal enforcement detains 25 clandestine gunsmiths in five regions

The FSB said that 116 units of military and civilian firearms with restored combat properties have been withdrawn from illegal circulation.MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Russian law enforcement bodies hav

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Inner Mongolia invests 230 mln yuan to support traditional dairy industry

North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will invest 230 million yuan (about 32.9 million U.S. dollars) to support the development of the traditional dairy indus

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Disrupt 2020 early-bird savings vanish in just 4 days

Disrupt 2020 doesn’t arrive until September, but the countdown clock to early-bird savings winds to a halt in just four days. Grab this opportunity to attend one of the best tech conferences for all-t