VECNA GETS $65M TO REPLACE FORKLIFTS WITH ROBOTS
In the rush to automate warehouses, forklifts are something of a no-brainer. Lifting heavy payloads already requires heavy machinery,...
ATRIUM GRABS FRESH CAPITAL TO HELP SALES TEAMS MEET THEIR QUOTA
With sales teams now operating remotely, it is even harder to monitor how well they are performing. Atrium wants to make sure sales...
CAPTIVATEIQ RAISES $100M AT A $1.25B VALUATION TO HELP COMPANIES DESIGN CUSTOMIZED SALES COMMISSION PLANS
Less than 10 months after raising a $46 million Series B, CaptivateIQ announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series C...
“WE ARE GOING TO CREATE THE BEST ENVIRONMENT FOR STARTUPS IN EUROPE”
Spain's government is gearing up to pass the country's first ever startup law. A draft law agreed by ministers was presented to the...
CLEAN ENERGY FIRM HUSK SIGNS UN ENERGY COMPACT AS IT BEGINS SOLAR MINI-GRID EXPANSION IN NIGERIA, REST OF AFRICA
Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning...
RESILIENCE RAISES $45 MILLION FOR ITS CANCER CARE STARTUP
French startup Resilience announced yesterday that it has raised a $45 million Series A round led by Cathay Innovation. The startup...
BAIDU'S ELECTRIC CAR BRAND JIDU CLOSES $400M SERIES A ROUND
Once an industry with long development cycles, the automotive space is being upended by China's tech giants. One can hardly keep up...
GHANA'S OZÉ GETS $3M TO SCALE ITS DIGITAL RECORDKEEPING AND EMBEDDED FINANCE PRODUCTS
OZÉ , a Ghanaian fintech startup that provides digital recordkeeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses,...
PQSHIELD RAISES $20M FOR ITS QUANTUM-READY, FUTURE-PROOF CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY SOLUTIONS
Quantum computing promises to unlock a new wave of processing power for the most complex calculations, but that could prove to be just...
PAACK PULLS IN A $225M SERIES D LED BY SOFTBANK TO SCALE ITS E-COMMERCE DELIVERY PLATFORM
By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others....
INFERMEDICA RAISES $30M TO EXPAND ITS AI-BASED MEDICAL GUIDANCE PLATFORM
Infermedica , a Poland-founded digital health company that offers AI-powered solutions for symptom analysis and patient triage, has...
KKR INVESTS $45M INTO GROWSARI, A B2B PLATFORM FOR FILIPINO MSMES
A sari-sari store owner who uses GrowSari GrowSari , the Manila-based startup that helps small shops grow and digitize, announced today...
FTC FINES ONLINE SHOP $4M FOR HIDING REVIEWS BELOW 4 STARS
We all know online reviews must be taken with a grain of salt, but generally you'd like to think that a product with a 4.5-star average...
DAILY CRUNCH: GOOGLE DUMPS FLOC PLAN, PROPOSES NEW TOPICS API FOR AD TARGETING
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HARD CASH AND SOFT SKILLS: HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE AN ACQUISITION
Companies make acquisitions for a host of reasons. Sometimes it's about filling a hole in a product road map, or expanding market share,...
MAYBE CREATOR FUNDS ARE BAD
In the summer of 2020, TikTok set aside $200 million to pay U.S. creators in what it called a “creator fund.” This wasn't a common...
APPLE'S UPDATED PERSONAL SAFETY USER GUIDE ADDRESSES THE AIRTAG STALKING PROBLEM
After a number of stories in recent weeks have highlighted how Apple's AirTags are being used for stalking purposes, the company has...
IF THE $40B NVIDIA-ARM DEAL IS DEAD, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BIG TECH M&A?
News reports surfaced over the past 24 hours that the $40 billion Nvidia-Arm deal , which ranks among the most expensive tech deals...
ON-CHAIN RAISES ARE THE FUTURE OF STARTUP FUNDING
Parker McCurley Contributor Share on Twitter Parker McCurley is the co-founder and CEO of Decent Labs . Web3 is owned by the VCs, Jack...
TECHCRUNCH+ ROUNDUP: ZERO-DAY EXPLOITS, BREAKING INTO JAPAN, ALGORITHMIC VC INVESTING
We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it's always a delight...
AndaSeat announces Rainbow Six Siege Edition Phantom 3 Series gaming chairs
AndaSeat has announced a Rainbow Six Siege gaming chair. Officially called the Six Invitational 2022 Edition Phantom 3 Series, it's now up for pre-order with an MSRP of $280.49... Read more ...
Crysis 4 is announced in a teaser trailer
Crysis 4 has been announced in a new teaser trailer. Revealed by publisher Crytek on its official Twitter page, the short video shows what looks to be various materials and... Read more ...
Ransomware Hackers Are Looking To Gain Insider Help In Companies They...
Ransomware hackers were bribing company employees with crypto to break inside any organization they targeted. Read more ...
Samsung Galaxy S22 Unpacked event date is now official
The Galaxy S22 series is the talk of the town right now, as the new flagship has been popping up in rumors left and right. In the past few days, we saw high-quality renders... Read more ...
Will your PC run Crysis 4? We're about to find out
Crytek has teased a new entry in its long-running Crysis series in a short trailer posted from its Twitter account. “Join the journey. Become the hero,” the trailer reads as it... Read more ...
Call of Duty Warzone 2 to release next year on PlayStation and Xbox
Call of Duty: Warzone 2 will be released as a standalone sequel next year on Xbox Series X , PC, and PS5 , despite Microsoft's planned acquisition of series publisher... Read more ...
Halo Infinite delays worth it as game had the biggest launch in the series
In its most recent earnings call, Microsoft revealed that Halo Infinite had the biggest launch of any Halo game to date. It later publicly confirmed this via Twitter, adding... Read more ...
OnePlus Nord 2T tipped to feature Dimensity 1300 chip and 80W charging
The OnePlus Nord 2 may soon get a successor dubbed OnePlus Nord 2T. The device is tipped to feature the yet to be announced MediaTek Dimensity 1300 chipset - an upgrade over... Read more ...
PS5 auto-upload features lets players automatically share capture to the...
A new PS5 feature that allows users to automatically upload game captures to the PlayStation mobile app instead of directly to social media has begun rolling out to some... Read more ...
US Government Report Says Chip Shortages Will Continue into 2022, Supply...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has released the results of a report it commissioned on the shortage of semiconductors that is currently roiling many global industries. The... Read more ...