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I welcome you to this beautiful Thursday. We still stagger about Elon Musk and the twins. Connie has more about it. Amanda also covered verdict in the case of Sunny Balwani of Theranos. Meanwhile, if you are a startup founder, don’t forget apply for participation in Startup Battlefield 200. Submission date July 31st. Till tomorrow! — Christine
TechCrunch Top 3
- More about history: Manish returned with more information about vivo saga. Now the Chinese embassy in India is saying that all these investigations that India is doing on Chinese firms are bad for business. Perhaps, or perhaps it is India being cautious.
- Level up your avatar: Reddit goes deep into the NFT game by launching a new avatar marketplace, Ivan writes. Advantages? You don’t need a crypto wallet to buy it and you can use it both on and off Reddit.
- Check out this rating: YuLife has increased its valuation to $800 million after receiving $120 million in new funding. ingrid reports. Life insurance company specializing in wellness and gamification was previously valued at $70 million. Tell us about your good business models!
Startups and VK
In this section, Mary Ann there’s another update to the saga she’s following this year, which is Better.com. In today’s issue, she writes about all new employees who have joined the digital mortgage lender in the past few months, which has even called it a “rebirth”.
How many applications do you use in your company? If the average is about 110. Happeo raises $26 million to build intranet portal for your company to link employees to all applications, Kyle writes. This should make you happy, uh, Happeo.
Here’s what else we have for you:
- Bill: Mary Ann also wrote about the $6.5 million invoicing software startup Adaptive, led by Andreessen Horowitz, which, ironically, included three competing companies.
- The other gets the horn: Tebra, an operating system for independent healthcare providers, is now a unicorn after taking on over $72 million in equity and debt. Catherine writes.
- Tebra, Traba; Traba, Tebra: If the Great Retirement has taught us anything, it’s that people are looking for flexible options, even entry-level ones. Kyle announces that Traba has raised $20 million to equalize contractors with warehouse and fulfillment work.
- There is no venture apocalypse yet: I enjoyed AlexLet’s take a look at how the US is doing during the global downturn in the venture capital market.
- From beds to insurance: JordanInsurance startup Ranger’s $5.25 million round report answers the question of what former Casper CEO Philip Krim has been up to since he left the bed company.
- Super growth from super plants: Please enjoy my story about Fyto, a hardware and software company helping farmers grow aquatic plants using robotic automation.
- Who calls whom a “dinosaur”?: Mike reports that Headline VC may have been in the venture game since 1999, but armed with $950 million in new commitments in three funds, proves it looks more like an Energizer Bunny than a fossil.
Row’s failure has a big impact on emerging tech cities in the red states
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On June 24, Khadijah Robinson planned to offer the woman a job. As the founder of Atlanta-based tech startup Nile, she spent 3 years scaling a platform that connects consumers with black online businesses. That Friday, she was thrilled that she had finally found someone willing to move from California to Georgia to help grow the company.
But by noon, the offer was put on hold: just hours earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, which worried Robinson. “As founder and CEO, I now have to think long and hard about asking women to move to a state that will likely pass laws against them very soon,” she tweeted. “I’m terribly tired.”
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Big Tech Inc.
In today’s news, Big Tech Meta has taken a new step in refusal to sign in to Facebook as the metaverse’s identity system, Lucas reports. One benefit is that you don’t need Facebook credentials to play games and use the Quest software. Speaking of quest Amanda gives you a look at The next Meta VR headset by Meta. Meanwhile, Natasha provides an update on the development of a decision by the Irish Data Protection Commission regarding Meta data transfer between UK and US
Aishastory about Twitter begins testing “CoTweets” which will allow users to co-tweet, got me thinking about the jokes Hadje and I could get in.
As you can imagine, we love following a good saga here at TechCrunch and Annie delivers another one, providing us Flutterwave update. The company currently denies allegations of money laundering and fraud.
More from us:
- this is not good: Zach as well as Carly banded together to write about a major police data breach in China that may have exposed… virtually every one of its inhabitants.
- welcome new boss: Anita writes that Binance.US has a new CFO.
- If you’re blue in a red state, you might want to pay attention: Dominic-Madori as well as Becca Shkutak co-author of a TechCrunch+ article talking to founders in blue emerging technology hubs in red states and how the Roe v. Wade decision affects their ability to hire new talent.
- Blue light in the fifth passage: In the shopping news we have AishaReport on Pinterest launches new shopping features for merchants and Laurena story about Amazon connects with influencers to increase sales during Prime Day this year. We also don’t forget about New Instacart Rewards Program.
- Pedal to the floor: We also have tons of automotive news to cheer you up, starting with Jacquelinea couple of stories about Volkswagen breaks ahead at the first of its new battery factories and a report that a quarter of people are still not fond of electric cars. Meanwhile, Kirsten writes about US security regulators launch special investigation in a car accident in San Francisco involving Cruise’s self-driving vehicle.
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