Brazil-based Rocket.Chat, an open source enterprise messaging service that claims to have 8M MAUs and 16M users total across 150 countries, raises $19M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
In an internal memo, John Matze says he has been terminated as Parler’s CEO by its board of directors — “The future of Parler is no longer in my hands,”…
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025, and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025, and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040 — Apple plans…
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company’s approach to robotics for commercial applications (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company’s approach to robotics for commercial applications — A week ago, Boston…
Colombian startup Simetrik, which offers no-code payment infrastructure tools, raises a $20M Series A at a $100M+ valuation led by FinTech Collective (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Colombian startup Simetrik, which offers no-code payment infrastructure tools, raises a $20M Series A at a $100M+ valuation led by FinTech Collective — Infrastructure startups continue to attract venture dollars…
Andy Jassy is said to be “warmer and fuzzier” than Bezos, but as Amazon’s next CEO, he faces many hurdles if he wants its tech to manage workers more humanely (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Andy Jassy is said to be “warmer and fuzzier” than Bezos, but as Amazon’s next CEO, he faces many hurdles if he wants its tech to manage workers more humanely …
Dublin-based Flipdish, which provides tech for creating food ordering apps to ~7K restaurants in 25 countries, raises $96M led by Tencent at a $1.25B valuation (Alice Hancock/Financial Times)
Dublin-based Flipdish, which provides tech for creating food ordering apps to ~7K restaurants in 25 countries, raises $96M led by Tencent at a $1.25B valuation — Food ordering app specialist…
Theta Lake, which provides compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Slack, raises a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures (Kyle Alspach/VentureBeat)
Theta Lake, which provides compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Slack, raises a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Theta Lake, which offers…
Spanish delivery app Glovo raises $121M from Swiss real estate firm Stoneweg to build out delivery-only convenience stores for sub-30 minute delivery times (Macarena Munoz Montijano/Bloomberg)
Spanish delivery app Glovo raises $121M from Swiss real estate firm Stoneweg to build out delivery-only convenience stores for sub-30 minute delivery times — – Stoneweg will build, refurbish property…
Replit, a browser-based IDE for cross-platform collaborative coding, says it has raised a $80M Series B led by Coatue at a $800M valuation (Packy McCormick/Not Boring)
Replit, a browser-based IDE for cross-platform collaborative coding, says it has raised a $80M Series B led by Coatue at a $800M valuation — Replit Raises $80M Series B to…
ServiceTrade, which offers SaaS applications to commercial service contractors, raises $85M in a round led by JMI Equity (Zachery Eanes/Raleigh News & Observer)
ServiceTrade, which offers SaaS applications to commercial service contractors, raises $85M in a round led by JMI Equity — ServiceTrade, a Durham maker of automation software for commercial services businesses,…