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A new $25M fund aims to give UK mental health startups a shot in the arm
KHP Ventures is raising a £20 million ($25.5 million) fund specifically aimed at accelerating startups addressing depression, anxiety and psychosis. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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BeReal hit with privacy complaint over how it asks EU users to agree to tracking
Right after BeReal got acquired by French mobile games publisher Voodoo this summer, the candid selfie-sharing app which has been popular with Gen Zers changed how it asks users to consent to tracking. The resulting pop-up is now the target of a privacy complaint in Europe. Confirmed breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation…
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Embedded data analytics startup Embeddable is still handpicking its customers despite strong demand
Tom Gardiner and Harry Marshall founded Trevor.io in 2016 as a no-code business intelligence platform to help non-data people run analysis on their internal data. That business was solid, but customers increasingly started asking the company for access to the same tools for their customer-facing data. Gardiner told TechCrunch that the company initially resisted the…
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Bitcoin ATM giant Byte Federal says 58,000 users’ personal data compromised in breach
Byte Federal, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the U.S., said the personal data of thousands of customers may have been compromised during a recent breach. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general, Florida-based Byte Federal said hackers tried to access the data of 58,000 customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers, government-issued IDs,…
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Anybotics raises $60M to bring more autonomous industrial robots to the U.S.
Anybotics has closed its Series B round at $110 million, some 18 months after announcing it had raised a $50 million Series B. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Upvest, a stock trading API used by N26, Revolut and others, raises $105 million
Upvest might not be a familiar name if you don’t pay close attention to the fintech industry, but chances are you’ve already interacted with the company’s products. Founded by Martin Kassing (pictured above), the Berlin-based startup builds a white-label investment platform that is used by some of the biggest fintech companies in Europe. Upvest clients…
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Laam lands $5.5M to provide South Asian fashions to migrants around the world
Laam, a curated online fashion marketplace based in Pakistan, has raised $5.5 million in a seed round to take South Asian fashion to the world. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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ChatGPT and Sora are down
OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API are experiencing a major outage, according to the company’s status page. The company says it’s identified a pathway to recovery and is working on a fix as of 4:55pm PT Wednesday evening. It remains unclear what the cause of the outage is. As of 5:50 pm PT,…
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SolarSquare raises $40 million in India’s largest solar venture round
SolarSquare has raised $40 million in what is the largest venture round in India’s solar sector. The Mumbai-based startup bootstrapped and was profitable selling to corporate customers for five years before switching to residential solar in 2021. Now it has scaled to powering over 20,000 homes and 200 housing societies across India, and is India’s…
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Microsoft will take an $800M hit over Cruise robotaxi shutdown
GM’s decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving car company’s minority investors. Microsoft, which in 2021 made an investment into Cruise, will take $800 million impairment charge as a result of GM’s actions, according to a regulatory filing. Microsoft said the charge will be…