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TechCrunch Top 3
- Shake, take off: Several U.S. law enforcement agencies opened bottles after announcing that they had succeeded in taking over website domains claimed to belong to SSNDOB, a notorious marketplace known to profit from Americans’ social security numbers and credit cards. This group has posted information on approximately 24 million people and generated $19 million in revenue.
- Exit to limb: Branch may have had some early funding issues, but even as insurtech stock cools, the company has found its money tree growing. The branch has raised $147 million in Series C funding. Its tree is so tall that a unicorn can now frolic beneath it.
- All the features of iOS 16 that are suitable for printing: We know you’re following Apple’s WWDC this week, but there are so many new features that IvanOur new Consumer Technology Reporter has rounded up some of them you may not have heard of yet.
Startups and VK
NGL, we like to bask in some sheer anarchy on Wednesday mornings, and Tux has it in spades. AnitaX today’s interview with them :chef’s kiss: worth reading.
- Try (with fake data) before you buy (for real money): The goal of TestBox is to make it easy to test the software you want to purchase in your own environment.. What’s more, it’s pre-populated with synthetic data similar to yours to make it even easier. Ron explains, and it covers the $10 million seed round.
- Om nom, and indeed, nom: Christine announces how SCiFi Foods, formerly known as Artemys Foods, combines plant-based and culture-based meat technologies to create its first hamburger, and his mission just got a big venture capital boost from a16z.
- Eat healthy, stretch and watch your money: Fruitful emerges from stealth with $33 million in funding and an application aimed at forming healthy financial habits, Mary Ann reports.
- Out of the beta and into the fire: Continual, a startup dedicated to simplifying operational AI on top of the modern data stack, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. round. In addition, today the company announced that its cloud platform is now publicly available. Frederick.
- Just take care of our fucking data, already: A huge collection of over 120,000 passports, driver’s licenses and identity documents. uploaded by users of Mobike bike sharing service were found on the Internet Zach as well as Rita report.
- Increase! Reinforce! Photographers working with an old photo library that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of resolution and clarity. Picsart just launched an AI enhancement tool which is pretty close to magic, Hadje reports.
As markets fall, government spending on technology remains stable: how can investors take advantage?
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Federal spending on technology is expected to remain stable even in the face of a looming recession, and investors and startups should seize the opportunity, write Josh Mendelsohn and Mike Ference, co-founders of Hangar.
“Current government spending, most of which will only begin to move across states after their legislative sessions close this summer, means that companies have a chance once every decade (or more) to enter the funded market in search of new ideas.”
With $110 billion for more than 4,300 projects included in the infrastructure spending bill, “this is an incredible opportunity for investors to support the next wave of innovation.”
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Big Tech Inc.
You didn’t think you’d walk away from the day without some Twitter and news Elon Musk, is not it? Legal Team Musk asked for more transparency on spam and bot accounts earlier this week, and now there are new messages that suggest he might get them. However, it won’t be a neatly organized package. More like a “fire hose” Amanda reports. Oh, and Twitter also released a new one trading teaser feature so you can let your customers set a reminder to know when a new product is on the way.
While we’re thinking about features, we have some bad news: GitHub decided to send Atom to the pasture. The text editor for software development is a few years old — over 10 years old — and GitHub says it wants to shift efforts to other tools. Regardless, we have some good news. YouTube TV distributes surround sound to additional devices – Crayta Game Development Platform by Meta will now allow you to play games with your friends in real time.
Meanwhile:
- I’m just a crypto account, sitting here on Capitol Hill.: Jackie gives you an inside look at a new bipartisan bill designed, in her words, to “address the trillion-dollar elephant in the room: the digital asset market.”
- Hearing another tune: Spotify spent the day touting the potential of podcasts and audiobooks to boost revenue.
- cloudy: Salesforce enters the crypto game and is testing NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying and selling crypto assets.
- Compliance Trust: European regulators are on a roll today, reporting Whatsapp has 1 month to clear up the confusion in its service policy, while the French data watchdog group CNIL has released a new guide for organizations to get them use of Google Analytics for compliance.
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