In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TC’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Danny and Chris dove into the world of…

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Valence Helps Neurodiverse People Interpret Emotions by Expressing Them as Vibrations

Traditional methods of learning don’t work for everyone.The team at Valence value neurodiversity and has created software that translates the emotional sentiment of vocal pitch into vibrational patterns on smartwatches and…

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OpenClassrooms raises $80 million for its online education platform – TechCrunch

French startup OpenClassrooms has raised an $80 million Series C funding round led by Lumos Capital Group. The company operates an online education platform in French and English. Users can…

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Armed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab – TechCrunch

Merama, a five-month old e-commerce startup focused on Latin America, announced today that it has raised $60 million in seed and Series A funding and $100 million in debt. The…

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MessageBird acquires SparkPost for $600M using $800M Series C extension – TechCrunch

MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today with two huge announcements. For starters, the company got an $800 million extension on its $200 million…

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Canada to provide $10M to support fight against COVID-19 in India: PM Trudeau

Canada will provide 10 million Canadian dollars to India to support the country in its fight against the unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has…

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