UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund
UK-based early-stage media technology venture capital firm GMG Ventures has rebranded to Mercuri. It has also raised £50 million ($81.35 million) for its second fund...
Smartstaff raises $6.2Mn in Series A as it expands its blue collar workforce management platform
Smartstaff, the Blume Ventures / Nexus VP-backed blue collar workforce management and recruitment platform, has bagged a fresh $6.2Mn in Series A from existing and...
India’s Flipkart begins customer lending in bid to boost sales
Flipkart has begun lending to customers, expanding its financing offerings in a move that could potentially boost sales even as its chief rival Amazon has...
The remote work startups that will last aren’t actually remote work startups
Back in 2020 when the pandemic forced people to work from home, entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to build tools to fuel this new transition to...
Twitter said only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck after 30 days
After swathes of users were unable to access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days, Twitter started rolling out a new version of the...
Three days left to snag a TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 pass at early-bird prices
We interrupt your holiday weekend for this quick reminder. You have only three days left to take advantage of our Fourth of July early-bird price...
Rivian shares pop on better-than-expected Q2 deliveries
Rivian delivered 12,640 electric vehicles in the second quarter, a nearly three-fold increase from the same period last year when the EV upstart was in...
Rivian delivers first electric vans to Amazon in Europe
Amazon has begun rolling out its custom electric delivery vans from Rivian in Europe, the e-commerce giant said Monday. This will be Rivian’s first commercial...
Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws
Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar...
Threads, Instagram’s Twitter competitor, is expected July 6
Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store...