Worldcoin hit with another ban order in Europe citing risks to kids
Controversial crypto biometrics venture Worldcoin has been almost entirely booted out of Europe after being hit with another temporary ban — this time in Portugal. The order from the country’s data pr...
Web3 investment firm Borderless Capital acquires CTF Capital to bring AI and quant expertise
Borderless Capital, an investment firm that specializes in web3, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring CTF Capital, a quantitative trading and asset management firm headquartered in Miami, with techn...
Metyos is building a biowearable to monitor chronic kidney disease
Alexandre Boulanger is better know for building self-balancing exoskeletons at Wandercraft. For his next trick the Paris-based robotics entrepreneur is fronting work on a far lighter kind of wearable:...
AI is a data problem. Now Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation, to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — w...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/ai-security-cyera-startup-coatue/
How Ember is building an all-electric intercity bus network in the UK
A Scottish company building one of the U.K.’s first all-electric intercity bus networks has raised $14 million (£11 million) in a Series A round of funding as it looks to expand across the entire coun...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/ember-is-building-an-all-electric-intercity-bus-network-in-the-uk/
AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups
A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical also heating up. Runa Capi...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/ai-and-data-infrastructure-drives-demand-for-open-source-startups/
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/telegrams-peer-to-peer-sms-login-service-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
900.care sells waterless personal care products and lets you add tap water at home
Here’s the harsh truth behind personal care products: you’re mostly buying water and plastics. The main ingredient in a bottle of shampoo or shower gel is water, and by far. It is mixed with a bunch o...
Meet Uzbekistan’s first unicorn: e-commerce startup Uzum
Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding, becoming the country’s first unicorn with ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/uzbekistan-unicorn-uzum-series-a-funding/
Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines
Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen ...
Bankrupt EV startup Arrival sold its assets to Canoo
Bankrupt commercial EV startup Arrival has sold some of its assets, including advanced manufacturing equipment to Canoo, another struggling startup trying to build and sell electric vehicles. The acqu...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/bankrupt-ev-startup-arrival-sold-its-assets-to-canoo/
TechCrunch Space: Returning to the moon
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Mark your calendars, everyone: Boeing and NASA are planning to conduct the first crewed Starliner mission as soon as May 1.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/techcrunch-space-returning-to-the-moon/
Fisker trading suspended by NYSE
The exchange said Monday that Fisker's stock is "no longer suitable for listing" because of "abnormally low" price levels.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/fisker-trading-suspended-by-nyse/
Maju Kuruvilla is out as CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt
Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, who is now interim CEO, according to Grooms’ LinkedIn profile. Kuruvil...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/maju-kuruvilla-is-out-as-ceo-of-one-click-checkout-company-bolt/
A judge just killed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against an anti-hate research org
A federal judge sided against Elon Musk today, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Musk and X targeting a nonprofit that researches online hate. X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) last y...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-ccdh-california-lawsuit-dismissed/
Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help
There are countless reasons why home robots have found little success post-Roomba. Pricing, practicality, form factor and mapping have all contributed to failure after failure. Even when some or all o...
London regtech GSS raises $47M to help banks screen for global sanctions
Global Screening Services (GSS), a London-based regulatory compliance platform that helps financial institutions meet their global sanctions obligations, has raised $47 million in a round of funding. ...
Can you hear me now? AI-coustics to fight noisy audio with generative AI
Noisy recordings of interviews and speeches are the bane of audio engineers’ existence. But one German startup hopes to fix that with a unique technical approach that uses generative AI to enhance the...
TechCrunch Minute: Why the company behind Trump’s Truth Social joined the growing IPO trend
The Reddit and Astera Labs IPOs last week ate up a lot of media oxygen. And with good reason, the two tech IPOs priced well and traded with even more gusto. After a long dearth for technology offering...
Boston Side Events line up at Early Stage with Techstars, Women in Tech, Harvard and more
Get ready to amplify your Early Stage 2024 experience with the electrifying lineup of Side Events taking Boston by storm during the week of April 22–28. As the countdown to TechCrunch Early Stage begi...