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Good day and welcome to Every day Crunch for November 3, 2021. What a day! Regardless of the U.S. Federal Reserve saying a slowdown to its bond-buying program, shares went up once more. It’s heads-you-win, tails-you’re-still-in inventory market currently. Economic system not ok for tightening? Shares go up on a cushty central-banking atmosphere. Economic system ok for tightening? Shares go up on good financial information. Certain. I suppose it’s excellent news for startups trying to exit. — Alex
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- The Gopuff model goes international: As TechCrunch notes, fast, on-demand supply is large enterprise world wide at the moment, and Breadfast needs to personal the mannequin in Egypt and throughout Africa. The corporate began life as a bread supply agency however has since branched out. And it simply raised $26 million.
- U.S. bans NSO Group: Software program made by NSO group has been utilized by authoritarian governments to listen in on journalists, dissidents and folks that the highly effective don’t like. The U.S. Commerce Division simply added NSO to its Entity Record, shuttering commerce with the agency within the States. Progress.
- Australia says facial recognition startup broke its laws: Additionally from the safety beat is information from Down Below, specifically that Clearview AI “broke nationwide privateness legal guidelines when it covertly collected residents’ facial biometrics and included them into its AI-powered id matching service.” Canada has come to a similar conclusion.
- Radar or lidar? A new funding spherical for Spartan Radar — coming in fast succession after a previous funding — signifies that the market has but to find out which tech will paved the way for self-driving automobiles.
- Ethyca wants to help developers write privacy-forward software: Recent with new funds, Ethyca is making its Fides set of tooling open supply in order that “builders can construct privateness instruments and monitoring mechanisms immediately into their codebases.” Within the wake of the above privateness information, it appears like a fairly good day for shoppers. At the least directionally, I suppose.
- Yet more money for e-commerce rollups: The push to consolidate e-commerce manufacturers is a worldwide affair. We’ve heard about numerous the exercise — and ensuing mega-rounds — in each North America and Europe. Now Una Manufacturers has raised much more capital for its APAC-focused work of an identical nature.
- Payhippo raises $3M for small-biz lending in Africa: A couple of fast notes right here. First, African fintech has been on a fundraising tear currently, so we’re not shocked to see extra exercise from the sector. Second, Payhippo’s mannequin is targeted on SMB lending, which we dig. And, third, Payhippo is a superb startup identify.
- To spherical out our startup protection at the moment, an essay from Victoria Pettibone, a managing accomplice at Astia Fund, arguing that “VCs must do a better job of supporting Black women founders.”
Feminine founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback
We’re nowhere close to reaching parity or illustration in terms of startup funding, however the gender hole is narrowing, in response to PitchBook information.
Funding for U.S.-based, female-founded startups practically doubled within the final 12 months: To this point in 2021, women-led corporations have closed 2,661 offers value $40.4 billion.
“So far in 2021, the backsliding has greater than stopped,” report Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm. “Certainly, it has shot the opposite path.”
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Earlier than we dive into basic Large Tech information, please take pleasure in this dive into the biggest of technology news, specifically development within the cloud. You recognize, that distant information heart the place all of your software program truly runs.
- Social media disinformation is more than a Facebook affair: After some damning revelations about Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta, Twitter was flooded with messages of … help. Astroturfing will not be a brand new idea, however when laid as clear as it’s on this case, it’s further gross.
- Instagram hearts Twitter: After an extended time frame wherein Instagram accounts merely posted photographs of tweets, the Meta property – The Fb protectorate? The Zuck protectorate? – is bringing again Twitter Card previews. Rejoice, all ye who nonetheless use the one-time photograph sharing utility.
- Cash App for teens: Youngsters have it good as of late. I had a checkbook in my youth. And after that principally needed to carry money. At present Sq. is rolling out help for teenagers to make use of Money App, offered they’ve mother and father to observe over their exercise.
- To round out our coverage of big technology firms, news from DoorDash: The U.S. supply big has constructed one thing it calls “SafeDash,” a safety toolkit for its supply denizens. It’s a partnership with ADP which will assist maintain DoorDashers safer than they’re on their very own.
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