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Home services platform Thumbtack raises $275M on a $3.2B valuation to double down on home management – TechCrunch
[ad_1] On the heels of making an acquisition in December of home management startup Setter, Thumbtack — one of the pioneers in the home services gig economy — has raised a big round to double down on the model. The company has raised a fresh $275 million, money that the company plans to use to…
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Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Twitter is looking at adding new features that could help users who are facing abusive situations on its platform as a result of unwanted attention pile-ons, such as when a tweet goes viral for a reason they didn’t expect and a full firehose of counter tweets get blasted their way. Racist abuse also remains…
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The US should welcome refugees on humanitarian terms, not just economic ones – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Vlad Magdalin Contributor Vlad Magdalin is co-founder and CEO of Webflow, a no-code software development company. In December 1991, about 20 days before the Soviet Union formally disintegrated, my family landed in San Francisco as religious refugees fleeing persecution. I was a 9-year-old kid who had just experienced his first airplane trip and was…
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Australian ID verification startup OCR Labs raises $15M Series A to expand into UK/Turkey/Europe – TechCrunch
[ad_1] With the gig economy came the need for ID verification, thus startups like OnFido (raised $188.8 million) appeared, alongside several others. But this sector is by no means ‘done’ yet. Now, OCR Labs, which emerged from Australia, has announced a €12.5M / $15 million Series A funding round led by Turkish investors Oyak Group,…
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Golden Gate Ventures forecasts a record number of exits in Southeast Asia – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. In fact, a new report from investment firm Golden Gate Ventures predicts a record number of exits will happen in the region over the next couple of years, thanks to factors like a maturing ecosystem, more secondary buyers and…
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Redwood Materials is setting up shop near the Tesla Gigafactory as part of broader expansion – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has purchased 100 acres of land near the Gigafactory that Panasonic operates with Tesla in Sparks, Nevada as part of an expansion plan that aligns with the Biden Administration’s drive to increase adoption of electric vehicles and boost domestic battery recycling…
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How autonomous delivery startups are navigating policy, partnerships and post-pandemic operations – TechCrunch
[ad_1] We kicked off this year’s TC Sessions: Mobility with a talk featuring three leading players in the field of autonomous delivery. Gatik co-founder and chief engineer Apeksha Kumavat, Nuro head of operations Amy Jones Satrom, and Starship Technologies co-founder and CTO Ahti Heinla joined us to discuss their companies’ unique approaches to the category.…
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Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun explains why it was the right time to launch an AV technology startup – TechCrunch
[ad_1] ‘This is a combination of my 20-year career in AI as well as more than 10 years in self-driving’ Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber ATG, is the founder and CEO of Waabi, an autonomous vehicle startup that came out of stealth mode last week. The Toronto-based company, which will focus on…
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Upflow raises $15 million to manage your outstanding invoices – TechCrunch
[ad_1] French startup Upflow has raised a $15 million Series A round. The company wants to help you chase late payments. It optimizes how you collect payments from your customers in order to improve your cash-cycle. Investors in today’s funding round include 9yards Capital, existing investor eFounders, as well as N26 co-founder Maximilian Tayenthal, Uber…
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Register to watch a livestream recording of the Equity podcast! – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Throughout its four or so years of life, the Equity podcast crew has had the good fortune to record a few live shows. We sat on the small stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, for example, with Garry Tan one year, and Charles Hudson another. We’ve also ventured to other venues and events with varying levels…