Aileen Lee and Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson will share how to get to yes on Extra Crunch Live – TechCrunch

Aileen Lee is one of the most prestigious and successful venture capitalists of the past decade. Before starting her own firm in Cowboy Ventures, Lee was a partner at KPCB…

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OnlyFans’ policy change is a tale as old as the internet – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TC’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex and Danny had colleague Amanda Silberling on the show to…

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Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its ‘consumer-like B2B checkout platform’ – TechCrunch

Balance, a payments platform aimed at B2B merchants and marketplaces, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital. Avid Ventures participated in the financing,…

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Level AI lands $13M Series A to build conversational intelligence for customer service – TechCrunch

Level AI, an early stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having…

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Europe’s first social and investing app Shares.io raises €8.52M prior to launch

Shares.io CEO and co-founder, Benjamin Chemla | Image credit: LinkedInParis-based Shares.io, a consumer mobile app and social-first platform for retail investors, has announced plans to launch its app in the…

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Google introduces global kids safety programme in India, updates Google Safety Centre

Google on Wednesday launched the 'Be Internet Awesome' programme for children in India, in partnership with Indian comic book publisher Amar Chitra Katha, to interweave critical internet safety lessons across…

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CoinDCX joins advertising council to build credibility for crypto ads

Indias first crypto unicorn CoinDCX announced that it has joined Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to actively support the advancement of advertising standards within India’s cryptocurrency and digital asset…

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Forward Kitchens cooks up $2.5M to transform existing kitchens into digital storefronts – TechCrunch

Forward Kitchens was working quietly on its digital storefront for restaurants and is now announcing a $2.5 million seed round. Raghav Poddar started the company two years ago and was…

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Bodo.ai secures $14M, aims to make Python better at handling large-scale data – TechCrunch

Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms. It announced Wednesday a $14 million Series A…

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Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data – TechCrunch

At a time when remote work, cybersecurity attacks and increased privacy and compliance requirements threaten a company’s data, more companies are collecting and storing their observability data, but are being…

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