India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes – TechCrunch

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Transform your startup investors into growth marketers without them noticing – TechCrunch

Miles Jennings Contributor Miles Jennings is the founder and COO of Recruiter.com, a recruiting solutions platform helping startups hire talent. If you’re successful at raising capital, investors have jumped into…

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iPhone refurbisher Swappie raises $124M Series C led by Verdane to scale in Europe – TechCrunch

Finland-based Swappie refurbishes and resells used iPhones, taking care of the entire process, and selling the refurbished devices via its own marketplace, with a 12-month warranty. Back in 2020, it…

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Pandemic and ‘revenge travel’ helps power Heygo to a $20M Series A funding round – TechCrunch

During the worst throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, very few people could travel. Meanwhile, both 2021 and 2022 were predicted to be the years of “revenge travel” where people would…

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Existing investors double down on Ro at boosted $7 billion valuation – TechCrunch

Tech healthcare unicorn Ro announced today that it has raised $150 million exclusively from existing investors, led by ShawSpring Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital, General Catalyst, Seven Seven Six,…

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Zendesk rejects $17B offer, sidewalk robots, recruiting survey – TechCrunch

When consumers started buying cars, many predicted the transportation revolution would lead to air pollution, traffic and life-threatening collisions. But no one gave much thought to the security aspect. Early…

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