co-founders Lawrence Lin Murata and Alice Deng, B2B payments

Why we’re seeing so many seed-stage deals in fintech

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Venture capital is opening the gates for defense tech

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Humane’s ‘AI Pin’ debuts on the Paris runway

[ad_1] Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when…

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VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany

[ad_1] Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput.  The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg…

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Startups may have trouble finding their enterprise footing

[ad_1] The software spend squeeze is lessening, new data from Battery Ventures indicates. According to the venture capital firm’s survey of enterprise firms with 100 C-suite leaders at companies around…

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BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users

[ad_1] Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap…

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Google Pixel Event 2023: Pixel 8, Watch 2 and everything else we expect

[ad_1] It’s been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We’ve already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft,…

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So what happened to Blue Apron?

[ad_1] News that Blue Apron is selling itself to Wonder Group — Marc Lore’s latest — for around $100 million marks the end of the former startup’s life as a…

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X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators, CEO says

[ad_1] The company formerly known as Twitter has paid out nearly $20 million to creators, according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino. The platform, now called X, began paying…

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WestBridge seeks to buy stake in India’s Meesho

[ad_1] WestBridge Capital is in advanced stages of talks to purchase shares of Meesho in the secondary market, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the high-profile venture…

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