Paytm will spend up to $127 million to repurchase it shares, the company’s board approved on Tuesday, as the Indian financial services firm looks to calm investors after a tumultuous period that has wiped about 60% value from its shares this year. The Noida-headquartered firm, which went public late last year, made the proposal last […]
India’s Paytm to buy back shares by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
When it turns out a screaming success was no more than smoke and mirrors, it means that a key signal in the tech startup market was actually quite specious.
Ah, so SBF’s FTX was all BS by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Privileged access management (aka PAM) provides the ability to control access to sensitive parts of your technology environment. Rather than giving everyone access to these resources (or conversely, no one), you should be able to apply permissions granularly. But it is challenging without the right tools. Common Fate, an Australian startup from a couple of […]
Common Fate wants to make it easier to manage privileged access for developers by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush, accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize. Venture capital (VC) funding in […]
Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. As an engineer there, Shreve was developing on webhooks — automated messages […]
Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Beni created a free browser extension, initially for Chrome and Safari, to assist shoppers in finding resale listings for items they are looking for.
Beni is creating an ‘easy button’ for secondhand shopping by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resignations, crowdsourced ban-reversals, advertiser standoffs, picking fights with Apple, and a revamped verification system that has everyone and their uncle […]
Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Fundraising may be drying up for some segments of the tech industry at the moment, but one area that continues to get a lot of attention is AI and specifically startups that are using it to build out revenue-generating businesses. Today, a startup called Zappi, which has built a market research platform that utilizes AI […]
Zappi raises $170M for its AI-based market research platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Valuing startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel AI?
3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch