April 2, 2026

Amazon hits sellers with ‘fuel surcharge’ as Iran war roils global energy markets

The e-commerce giant called the surcharge “temporary” but couldn’t give a date for when the policy would be retired.

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Rethink rethinks mobility and logistics with new €50M fund

March 10, 2023

Rethink Ventures just announced a €50 million specialist fund focused on mobility, automotive and logistics. With keywords “clean, safe, and digital,” the Munich-based firm is focusing especially on Europe-based startups at the early stage, stretching into Series A financing. LPs include ZF Ventures, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, KION Group, Berylls and HAVI, as well as the […]

Rethink rethinks mobility and logistics with new €50M fund by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Silicon Valley Bank is being shut down today by regulators

March 10, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators, which are now in charge of the bank’s deposits, according to a release sent out by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Friday. While banking activities in SVB’s 17 branches are closed today, SVB’s operations will resume on Monday – this time, with the FDIC in charge. […]

Silicon Valley Bank is being shut down today by regulators by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

March 10, 2023

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. One of the core challenges is that it has traditionally been hard to do agile hardware product development — even if you get everything ‘right,’ how do you know that people actually want one of the 20,000 gizmos you […]

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch