Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal – TechCrunch
Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, …
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Smile Identity raises $7M to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa – TechCrunch
An estimated one billion people worldwide face the challenge of proving who they are, according to a World Bank Group …
Indonesian edtech startup Gredu raises $4M Series A to keep teachers, parents and students engaged with one another – TechCrunch
Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy …
BMW is finally producing its retro-futuristic CE 04 electric scooter, but at $12K will anyone buy it? – TechCrunch
We’ve been hearing about BMW’s electric city scooters, not to be confused with electric kick scooters, for years. The German …
WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech – TechCrunch
WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series …
India’s IT and Broadcasting ministers resign – TechCrunch
India’s IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar resigned from their roles on Wednesday, adding …
Real estate platform Casafari raises $15M to allow PE to buy single-family homes at scale – TechCrunch
Just a Spotify used VC and PE backing to acquire the assets of the music industry so that we must …
Video pitch decks, Didi’s regulatory struggles, Nothing CEO interview – TechCrunch
The numbers don’t lie. According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. And if you …
Gettr, the latest pro-Trump social network, is already a mess – TechCrunch
Well, that was fast. Just days after a Twitter clone from former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller launched, the new social …
Billionaire Blast-off Boys Club – TechCrunch
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