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Have you noticed the massive gap between consumer and business apps on your phone? While consumer apps are both beautifully designed and easy to use, business apps are simply painful to use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This morning Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts including the round’s structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by growth of AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Climate-tech VC Satgana has reached a final close of its first fund, which targets to back up to 30 early-stage startups in Africa and Europe. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might be around the corner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...

Harvesting methane from organic waste and using it to produce electricity or heat is nothing new, but the startup isn't building another anaerobic digester. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here’s the harsh truth behind personal care products: you’re mostly buying water and plastics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Globally, a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, and in Kenya, that figure stands at between 20% to 40%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Fund closes first €300M ClimateTech fund, seeking to follow-on and backing hardware Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferation of commercial spyware, sold by companies such as NSO Group or Intellexa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company reached profitability in 2023, however, more customers began asking for web and Android capabilities so they could share Copilot with family and friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Silence wants to shake things up when it comes to climate tech investment; The carbon accounting startup targets SMBs to help them assess the carbon footprint of their operations and products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India-based audio platform Pocket FM has secured $103 million in Series D funding led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Stepstone Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever needed a copy of your medical imaging to take to your doctor or another healthcare provider and received the images on a CD? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on his channel today that the company secured $330 million in investment through bond sales last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-streams to make proteins. In this case, it's a soy protein alternative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe components during manufacturing to improve efficiency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ShopMy, a marketing platform for content creators to connect with brands and monetize their content, announced today that it raised $18.5 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of raw data, but on-orbit compute limitations mean that operators have little way to process this data in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The European Union has opened its third formal investigation of a very large platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with China’s AliExpress earning itself the dubious honor of being the first online marketplace to face formal probe by the Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices