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Dat Bike is on a mission to put more electric bikes on Vietnam’s roads. The startup said today it has raised $8 million led by returning investor Singapore-based firm Jungle Ventures, just seven months after its first round of funding was announced. GSR Ventures and Delivery Hero Ventures also participated in this round, along with […]

Dat Bike gets another $8M to put more e-bikes on Vietnam’s roads by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Since taking off aboard the Space Launch System rocket last Wednesday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft has had a remarkably smooth journey. But it’s far from over. While millions of Americans prepare for a long weekend with family and friends, Orion will continue its 25-day mission, including conducting a crucial burn on Friday to enter a distant […]

Here’s what NASA’s Orion spacecraft is doing over Thanksgiving weekend by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Bitcoin could potentially capture roughly 3.5% of the global monetary market in aggregate over the next 17 years, according to CoinShares.

Bitcoin believers maintain view it could find institutional buy-in despite FTX chaos by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

NASA has found a new launch provider for its extreme weather observation satellites. The agency announced Wednesday that it has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) satellites across two launches in late spring next year. The missions, which will take place […]

NASA selects Rocket Lab to launch TROPICS satellites by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

With a stated mission to “back the underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked,” early-stage investor Early Light Ventures has secured at least $10.6 million towards its next fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Baltimore, Early Light is still somewhat new to VC land with about four years and four exits under its belt, per Crunchbase. […]

Early Light Ventures plots a second, $15M fund for software ‘underdogs’ by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

TechCrunch spoke to over a dozen people who accuse boot camp MyTechBestFriend of hostility, bullying, and harassment of its students.

#MyTechFrenemy by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by ex-Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to ensure the batteries from its fleets of shared electric bikes and scooters don’t end up in landfill at their end of life. The news, reported by The Verge, comes the same week that Lyft ended its dockless bike […]

Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks, persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding Fizz is so reminiscent of Facebook that he was introduced to his investor and now-CEO Rakesh Mathur […]

College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Startups serving startups feels a bit riskier in a post-FTX cryptocurrency era. Here’s how Ramp, Brex, and Rain are thinking.

FTX’s failure could be a stress test for corporate credit card startups by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch