Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets – TechCrunch

Beam, a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. The fresh capital,…

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‘The next decade for India is monumental’ – 30 quotes of the week on the India business opportunity

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YS, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous edition here). Share these 30 gems…

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Overnight, Russia’s invasion puts Ukrainian tech industry on a war footing – TechCrunch

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Healthcare unicorn Ro parts ways with top execs after fresh round of funding – TechCrunch

A week after healthcare unicorn Ro landed capital from existing investors at a higher valuation, two top executives have parted ways with the company, per an internal email obtained by…

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Implement differential privacy to power up data sharing and cooperation – TechCrunch

Maxime Agostini Contributor Maxime Agostini is the co-founder and CEO of Sarus, a privacy company supported by Y Combinator that lets organizations leverage confidential data for analytics and machine learning. Tianhui…

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As brands clamour to back causes, Good-Loop raises $6M for its view-to-donate ad platform – TechCrunch

Online advertising is generally terrible and our expectation that “information should be free” has tragically even ended up powering disinformation-filled social networks like Facebook. Many companies have tried and failed…

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Jeffrey Katzenberg backs the $10M seed round for HUBUC’s embedded finance API – TechCrunch

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fund-raising in the space. There’s now yet another example of this trend in the shape…

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