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Join the Q&A with top speakers at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI (March 3)

Over the past four years, TechCrunch has brought together some of the biggest names in robotics: founders, CEOs, VCs and researchers for TC Sessions: Robotics+AI. The show has provided a unique oppor

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Tao Zhang on the global impact of new Huawei charges

01:38 Tao Zhang is founder and managing director of Dao Ventures. He says the new U.S. charges against Huawei are unlikely to have a big impact on other countries' decisions to use Hua

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Eight Sleep CEO says his startup is more than a mattress company

Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight Sleep, would prefer that you don’t call his startup a mattress company.Eight Sleep does sell mattresses, albeit smart ones packed with sensors and temperature

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London’s Angel CoFund boosts its team and board with two key hires

London’s tech scene is playing musical chairs. In people news from the investors scene, the UK’s Angel CoFund (ACF) has now made two key appointments to the team and board. Former ACF Chairman G

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Index Fund’s portfolio is driving long-overdue innovation in femcare

U.K. startup Daye is rethinking female intimate care from a woman’s perspective, starting with a tampon infused with cannabidiol that tackles period pain.It’s also quietly demolishing the retrograde a

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Los Angeles-based SureSale is developing an independent certification service for used cars

Donny Hall, the chief executive and co-founder of the used car certification service, SureSale, knows used cars. The serial entrepreneur built and sold a previous business, CarSure, which was an insur

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Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 2 of 2)

In part two of a survey that asks top VCs about exciting opportunities in open source and dev tools, we dig into responses from 10 leading open-source-focused investors at firms that span early to gro

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LA-based Retina raises $2.5 million in new funding to expand its customer analysis software

Casting a cold eye on customer behavior and their future lifetime value has brought the Los Angeles-based startup Retina $2.5 million in new funding.The new financing was anchored by previous seed rou

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Top Hat raises $55M Series D for its higher ed learning platform

Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series D funding round co-ed by Georgian Partn

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ADB unveils venture platform to invest in impact technology startups

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it has approved the establishment of ADB Ventures, a new venture platform that will support and invest in startups offe

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Medloop secures €6M from Kamet Ventures and AXA for self-service patient app

Medloop, which allows patients to manage healthcare needs and providers, has secured €6 million from Kamet Ventures and AXA.The cash will be used to enhance its product offering and continue expansion

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Rebecca Fannin on UK allows Huawei limited access to 5G network

05:23 CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo speaks with Rebecca Fannin, founder and editor of Silicon Dragon Ventures and author of Tech Titans of China about the UK's decision to allow Huawei to bui

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UCSD hospital gets a drone delivery program powered by Matternet and UPS

Drone delivery may not make a lot of sense for food or parcel delivery yet, but for hospitals it could be a lifesaver. A new test program is being inaugurated at UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical Ce

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A conversation with ‘the most ambitious female VC in Europe’

Blossom Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures and LocalGlobe VC Ophelia Brown, just raised a new $185 million fund.The firm’s remit remains broadly the same: to be th

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TriggerMesh scores $3M seed from Index and Crane to help enterprises embrace ‘serverless’

TriggerMesh, a startup building on top of the open source Kubernetes software to help enterprises go “serverless” across apps running in the cloud and traditional data centers, has raised

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HKSAR gov't assists record number of companies setting up in Hong Kong

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government's investment promotion department said on Tuesday that it has assisted 487 overseas and Mainland com

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Uber sells food delivery business in India to Zomato

Uber said on Tuesday it has sold its food delivery business, UberEats, in India to local rival Zomato as the American ride-hailing giant continues to shed lossmaking operations and become profitable