Japanese VC Samurai Incubate closes $18.6M fund for African startups
Samurai Incubate, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today it has closed its “Samurai Africa 2nd General Partnership” fund, totalling 2…
Author: TechCrunch
Saltbox raises $10.6M to help booming e-commerce stores store their goods
E-commerce is booming, but among the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs of online businesses are finding a place to store the items they are selling…
Facebook tests video speed dating events with ‘Sparked’
Facebook confirmed it’s testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked, after the app’s website was spotted by The Verge. Unlike dating app giant…
Clubhouse rolls out payments to over 60K creators following initial test
Clubhouse is rapidly expanding access to payments, its first revenue-generating feature for creators, since its launch into testing earlier this month…
Meroxa raises $15M Series A for its real-time data platform
Meroxa, a startup that makes it easier for businesses to build the data pipelines to power both their analytics and operational workflows, today annou…
Elder tech company, Papa, raises $60M Led by Tiger Global
Papa, the elder tech company that offers care and companionship to seniors, today announced a $60 million Series C led by Tiger Global Management, bri…
On-demand pediatrics app Biloba adds prescriptions and raises $1.7 million
French startup Biloba has raised a $1.7 million funding round (€1.4 million) a few months after launching its pediatrics app that lets you chat with…
Memic raises $96M for its robot-assisted surgery platform
Memic, a startup developing a robotic-assisted surgical platform that recently received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administra…
Facebook ran ads for a fake ‘Clubhouse for PC’ app planted with malware
Cybercriminals have taken out a number of Facebook ads masquerading as a Clubhouse app for PC users in order to target unsuspecting victims with malw…
Consumers now average 4.2 hours per day in apps, up 30% from 2019
The coronavirus pandemic has increased our collective screen time, and that’s particularly true on mobile devices. According to a new report from mo…
The Cult of CryptoPunks
Last month, hours before news of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale grabbed the front pages of newspapers across the country, a pair of 24 x 24 pixel por…
Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz
The competition for note-taking is as fierce as it has ever been with plenty of highly-valued productivity startups fighting for an audience it can po…
Okta launches a new free developer plan
At its Octane21 conference, Okta, the popular authentication and identity platform, today announced a new — and free — developer edition that feat…
After its first $54M fund, Algebra Ventures launches $90M fund for startups in Egypt
The venture capital scene in the North African tech ecosystem will be absolutely buzzing right now with the announcement of two large VC funds in the …