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Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital
Constrafor provides embedded financing and software to keep payments flowing between contractors and their subcontractors.
Super.com targets its $85M equity, debt raise into new savings super app
Super.com's super app is focused on helping “everyday Americans” find deals and savings across multiple categories, including travel and shopping.
Early-stage fintech startups just got a new funding source
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Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts
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Daily Crunch: Proton releases end-to-end encrypted password manager for desktop and mobile
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Daily Crunch: Meta is dismissing around 4,000 more employees this week
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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO
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There was just one fintech unicorn minted in the first quarter
Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report. While this generally ma
Rally bags $12M to build the future of e-commerce checkout
Rally provides one-click checkout and post-purchase offers that allow the merchant to inject offers after the checkout.
B Capital leads Odeko’s $53M Series D to help small coffee shops scale
Odeko has operations software for coffee shops to manage inventory, get data insights and order equipment and supplies from over 400 vendors.
Daily Crunch: Sideloaded apps coming soon to an iPhone near you in iOS 17, says report
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Hydration brand Cure mixes new funding into its growth plans
The functional beverage market is indeed "exploding:" Cure continues to have about 60% penetration in e-commerce, and outpaced first-quarter 2022 growth by 121%.
Decentralized finance may be the answer to banking’s payment rails problem
Current payment rails, particularly in the U.S., are decades old. In recent years, fintech companies have built new ones, but it takes years and millions of dollars to do.
Daily Crunch: Less than a year after buying Heardle, Spotify will shutter music game on May 5
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Daily Crunch: Amazon’s new Bedrock cloud service lets developers incorporate generative AI
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Daily Crunch: Twitter CEO admits he purchased platform for $44B because ‘I kind of had to’
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Lending startup Kala is helping Latin American banks more easily offer credit
Small businesses in Latin America got another boost in lending support with the investment of $4 million in Kala, a Colombia-based company building fintech infrastructure for lending. The company, co-
Daily Crunch: YouTube sets $249 starting price for NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions
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AutoLeap, now with $30M Series B, accelerates SaaS approach to auto repair operations
AutoLeap's founders say now is "the golden age for aftermarket auto repair" as technology made for this industry shifts from “a nice to have” to a "must have."
Daily Crunch: Don’t post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle
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