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Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed

October 11, 2022

The coming wave of satellite constellations all need power, but solar panels built for space are extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture. Solestial is ready to change that with space-grade panels built using inexpensive, scalable processes, and it just raised $10 million to take its tech from lab to orbit. The company, formerly known as […]

Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Google Cloud expands to six more countries

October 11, 2022

Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That’s on top of the regions in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Columbus and Dallas the company already announced and […]

Google Cloud expands to six more countries by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs

October 11, 2022

Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up Workspace with new integrations and developer tools that […]

Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Funding in Indian startups shrinks by more than half

October 11, 2022

We are getting a more realistic update on the startup funding landscape in India, and as is true elsewhere, all the figures are in red in the South Asian market. Indian startups raised $3 billion in the quarter that ended in September, down 57% from the previous quarter and 80% year-over-year, market intelligence platform Tracxn […]

Funding in Indian startups shrinks by more than half by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Construction equipment marketplace raises a $17.5M Series A led by Beringea

October 11, 2022

Back in 2020 I covered how the UK startup Yardlink – which allows construction companies to obtain critical equipment faster than normal equipment rental companies – had raised it’s Seed round. It was basically bringing a digital-first, marketplace approach to an industry normal hide-bound by a slow, centralized hire market. Two years later, and Yardlink […]

Construction equipment marketplace raises a $17.5M Series A led by Beringea by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch