<p>Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity. As part of the deal, Read.cv will begin to wind down operations Friday. Users will be able to export their data, including their profiles, posts, and messages, until May 16. &#8220;We&#8217;ve long admired Perplexity and believe [&hellip;]</p>

Instabase, a company that creates software for extracting and processing unstructured data from myriad document types, has raised $100 million in a Series D round of funding. The announcement comes as companies struggle under a deluge of data &#8212; data that can unlock key business insights. Indeed, most of the data that companies generate is

<p>You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson&#8217;s disease.&nbsp; Famed investor Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures says that if everything goes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Walmart and Symbotic announced a deal Tuesday that would find the Massachusetts robotics firm taking control of the mega-retailer’s automation business. Symbotic is paying $200 million in cash for the program, plus up to $350 million in “additional contingent consideration,” depending on how the deal shakes out. The relationship is more partnership than straight acquisition, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The world of fashion is moving at a faster pace each year. Most retailers introduce new styles each season, and fast-fashion companies like Shein, H&amp;M, and Zara update their collections continuously. To keep pace with the rapid demand for new styles, brands and manufacturers have been turning to tech to accelerate their design process. Raspberry [&hellip;]</p>

Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of capital. The firm had ample opportunity to raise multi-billion dollars,said Shekhar Kirani, partner at Accel, in an interview with

<p>Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to latency (the time it takes to constantly send data) and the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>ScaleOps, an automated cloud management platform, has closed a $58 million Series B, bringing its total raised to $80 million.</p>

<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as a startup without competitors, but you need to know how to talk about them, including how you plan to exist alongside the competition.</p>

<p>A startup&#8217;s business model slide needs to paint a picture that shows where the business is now and how it can grow over time.</p>

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<p>Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. TradeDepot, a Nigeria- and U.S.-based company that connects consumer goods brands to thousands of retailers and helps with distribution, has raised $110 million in new equity and debt funding [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A number of investors including Sequoia Capital India and Steadview Capital are in talks to back Polygon, which operates a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks, by way of tokens purchase, three sources familiar with the matter told me. The investors are looking to purchase tokens worth $50 million to $150 million, sources said, requesting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja &#8212; its retailer &#8220;super app&#8221; that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills and access financing for their businesses. The startup has today [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stacked, a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research, a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DRW Venture [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we took a break from contextualization for some guides to consumption. This week, we&#8217;re looking at what&#8217;s happening in the mind of one Jack Dorsey. You can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page, and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. the big thing While [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The killer app of any tech is to make your life easier and more comfortable; the GPS in your car helps you find the best route to a restaurant when traffic is backed up, if you have cruise control, you can set a speed on the highway to ensure that you don&#8217;t get a ticket. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends.</p>

<p>Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Polestar will spend the next three years executing a lofty electric vehicle launch schedule that will culminate with the Precept concept, a &#8220;Rosetta stone&#8221; of sorts that provides a physical representation of the company&#8217;s future. Polestar, the former Volvo company that spun out to become its own brand, refers to the concept as its &#8220;manifesto.&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>