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Wolt closes $530M round to continue expanding beyond restaurant delivery
Wolt, the Helsinki-based online ordering and delivery company that initially focused on restaurants but has since…
S&P 500 futures rise ahead of busy week for earnings, Apple shares gain
S&P 500 futures rose early Monday, ahead of the busiest week of earnings on Wall Street.S&P…
Taboola is going public via SPAC
Taboola is the latest company seeking to go public via special purpose acquisition corporation — more…
Sano Genetics, a startup helping with Long Covid research, raises £2.5M in seed funding
Sano Genetics, a startup with a broad mission to support personalised medicine research by increasing participation…
Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa
Pula, a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of…
Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without…
SpaceX sets new record for most satellites on a single launch with latest Falcon 9 mission
SpaceX has set a new all-time record for the most satellites launched and deployed on a…
Overall bitcoin-related crime fell last year, but one type of crypto hack is booming
Kacper Pempel | REUTERS Cryptocurrency-related crime fell last year to a small fraction of overall trading…
How VCs and founders see 2021 differently
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column…
Risk of a major correction is ‘really low,’ economic forecaster Lakshman Achuthan says
The Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan said U.S. growth will help stocks avert a major…
Biden claims his $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan will cut child poverty in half — here’s how
President Joe Biden says his Covid relief package would dramatically reduce the ranks of kids living…
How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020
When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3 million in 2016, it was one of…
GameStop soars nearly 70%, trading briefly halted amid epic short squeeze
Wall Street’s most hated stock GameStop surged again on Friday as the massive short squeeze continued…
S&P 500 slips from all-time high, Nasdaq ends week up 4% at a record
The S&P 500 fell slightly on Friday, retreating from record levels, while the strength in major…
End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
Roger Lee Contributor Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park,…
Bank of America is giving $750 cash bonuses to lower-paid employees, restricted stock to others
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference on…
How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020
Wrapping our look at how the venture capital asset class invested in 2020, today we’re taking…
MotoRefi raises $10M to keep pedal on auto refinancing growth
A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi —…
Chinese esports player VSPN closes $60M Series B+ round to boost its international strategy
Esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has closed a $60 million Series B+ funding…