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Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment. So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also list on the travel booking platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Black, Latina, and Native American women represent approximately 16 percent of the total US population, but make up only 4 percent of students obtaining bachelor’s degrees in computing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Igloo, a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension of $27 million, bringing the round’s total to $46 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup that helps firms underwrite first-time borrowers, in the latest of a series of investments from the Bengaluru-headquartered fintech as it broadens its offerings. The firms did not disclose the terms of the deal. The 10-year-old CreditVidya — headquartered in Hyderabad and backed by Navroz Udwadia, Kalaari Capital and […]CRED acquires CreditVidya by Man...

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Deepomatic has raised a $10.5 million (€10 million) Series B funding round. While the founding round is relatively small, the startup has managed to convince some large-scale clients to use its visual automation platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dat Bike is on a mission to put more electric bikes on Vietnam’s roads. The startup said today it has raised $8 million led by returning investor Singapore-based firm Jungle Ventures, just seven months after its first round of funding was announced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most companies have worked hard over the years to produce strong and secure internet connections in the office, but over the last several years in particular, as more employees have been working away from the office, it’s been difficult for IT pros to reproduce that speed and safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor Noah Schnapp, who plays Will on Netflix’s hit original series Stranger Things, is passionate about tbh, a company he co-founded which aims to “reinvent” hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All eyes are currently on the collapse of FTX in the crypto industry. That’s why today’s news from Bitpanda is an important signal for the Austrian unicorn company. Bitpanda has received a crypto license from Germany’s financial regulator (BaFin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sponsorships are a multibillion-dollar industry. But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon Zimmerman — the co-founder of ReadySpaces, a warehouse storage provider for small businesses — was working in the self-storage market when he had the idea for a product with the flexibility of self-storage but the capabilities of a traditional warehouse, aimed primarily at enterprise customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Narwhal, the company behind the popular monorepo-focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 million seed funding round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Printed circuit boards (PCB), which perform essential functions in electronic devices, including displays and sensors, need a lot of energy to create. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While e-commerce was on the rise before the pandemic, the massive shift to digital supercharged the online shopping industry — bringing entirely new categories of products (and shoppers) to the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Silkhaus, a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All electric, everywhere, all of the time; that’s one of the many climate mantras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A startup that wants to democratize data in the enterprise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walk through any public park these days and you will see a hell of a lot more dogs than you might have done three years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cleantech startup Airly wants to help communities around the world improve air quality with affordable sensors and software that provides actionable insights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices