Better.com’s PR, comms, marketing heads submit resignations in wake of layoffs fiasco
Better.com continues to find new ways to make itself look bad. This week, sources familiar with internal happenings within the company told TechCrunch the company’s VP of communications, Patrick Lenihan; head of public relations, Tanya Gillogley; and head of marketing, Melanie Hahn, have all submitted their resignations. Insider also reported the news earlier today. The […]
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Credit Karma post-exit, recruiting developers, re:Invent recap
The same day in February 2020 that Credit Karma planned to announce that it had been acquired by Intuit for more than $7 billion, the stock market tanked, spooked by news that a novel virus had the potential to start a pandemic. “I’m up at 5 o’clock in the morning, the Dow is flashing red […]
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Jupe wants to solve for X, where X is the 1.5B people without adequate shelter
“We’re not making fucking glamping tents for bros at Coachella,” Jeff Wilson, co-founder and CEO at Jupe is eager to reassure me, as he outlines his vision for the company. “At this point, food is a distribution problem, clothing is largely solved. There are about 1.5 billion people in the world that still don’t have […]
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MAJORITY raises $27M Series A six months after its seed round to expand mobile banking for migrants
MAJORITY, a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures, Heartcore Capital and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in the raise. The round comes just six months […]
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SendOwl, a platform for selling digital goods, raises $4.5M from Defy.vc, Stripe and others
SendOwl, a platform used to sell and deliver digital products, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding from Defy.vc, with participation from Stripe and other investors. SendOwl enables creators and businesses to sell digital goods such as ebooks, podcasts, online courses, memberships, coaching services, live remote events and more. Users are able to do so […]
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Torq raises $50M Series B for its no-code security automation platform
Torq, a Portland, Oregon-based no-code security automation startup formerly known as StackPulse, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. New investor SentinelOne, the publicly traded endpoint security platform, also participated in this round, as well as existing investors GGV Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. This brings […]
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Ursa Major raises $85M to disrupt the vertically-integrated launch sector
The launch sector is getting crowded. Many of the biggest players are building their own rocket engines, but space startup Ursa Major is betting that many new launch providers would rather outsource the engine than build it in-house. Six years after being founded by former SpaceX and Blue Origin propulsion engineer Joe Laurienti, the company […]
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Therify hopes to build a more diverse and inclusive therapist network with $1.3M seed round
Finding the right therapist is never an easy task, but it gets even harder when, as a person of color or someone with disabilities, there are few or no people sharing your experience available. Therify hopes to change that with a network of providers from and catering to marginalized populations. “It just makes a ton […]
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Kenya’s president signs new law to police digital lenders, apps have six months to apply for licenses
In the past one decade, numerous mobile lending apps have been launched in Kenya riding on the growing need for quick loans. However, these startups have been operating in an unregulated environment until today when the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, approved a new law that gives the country’s monetary authority, the Central Bank of Kenya […]
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AgentSync raises $75M for its insurance-focused API business
AgentSync this morning announced that it has closed a $75 million Series B, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion. The new unicorn has been on a rapid-fire fundraising clip since TechCrunch first spoke to the company just over a year ago, when it raised a $4.4 million seed round in August 2020. The company stayed […]
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