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Dow drops more than 600 points Friday, suffers worst week since October amid GameStop trading frenzy
Heightened speculative trading by retail investors continued to unnerve the market.Heightened speculative trading by retail investors…
What investors need to know about research and inspiration in the COVID-19 era
Nili Metuki Contributor Nili Metuki is Senior Director of Research at InVision, a platform for inclusive…
Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS
Poland-based Telemedico has closed a €5.5 million (~$6.6 million) Series A round of funding. The round…
Robinhood CEO explains to Elon Musk why his platform restricted trading last week
Robinhood co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt New York event on…
Stocks rise to start February, rebounding from a steep sell-off amid retail trading frenzy
Stocks rose on Monday, the first session of February, as Wall Street appeared to shake off…
Robinhood’s long weekend brings a total of $3.4 billion to its balance sheet
Popular, highly-scrutinized trading app Robinhood has raised $2.4 billion to its balance sheet from shareholders, as…
Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools
Weights & Biases, a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it has…
Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana Labs’ Raj Dutt will tell us why they financially tied the knot (twice!)
Many founders only know their own experience fundraising and don’t hear much about what other founders…
Robinhood’s Q4 2020 revenue shows a return to growth
Deeply funded fintech company Robinhood has been the world’s most discussed startup over the last week.…
Robinhood appears to be benefitting from the trading controversy, seeing record app downloads
In this photo illustration, the Robinhood application is displayed on an iPhone on December 17, 2020…
Robinhood to continue trading limits on Monday, customers can still only buy one GameStop share
The millennial-favored stock trading app has cut down its list of restricted stocks from as many…
Equity Monday: Rich tech folks chat rich tech things on rich tech app funded by rich tech investors
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind…
EmergeVest Makes Strategic Investment in Sports Data Labs
DETROIT–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sports Data Labs, Inc. (SD Labs), an award-winning leader in collection, analysis and distribution of…
Robinhood CEO explains to Elon Musk why his platform restricted trading last week
Robinhood moved to stop trading in a number of speculative names, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment,…
Elon Musk says he’s a supporter of bitcoin and thinks it will get ‘broad acceptance’ in finance
In a discussion on the popular Clubhouse audio app, Musk confirmed he likes bitcoin.In a discussion…
Dow futures rise 200 points as market set to rebound from worst week since October
Wall Street appeared to shake off concerns about speculative retail trading mania that largely drove the…
Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security startup Alcide for $50M
Rapid7, the Boston-based security operations company, has been making moves into the cloud recently and this…
DesignCrowd raises $10 million AUD to grow its DIY platform, BrandCrowd
DesignCrowd announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.6 billion USD) in pre-IPO funding.…
Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019
In 2018, Carbon, a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although…