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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha interviewed Sarah Oh, the co-founder of T2, a Twitter […]

All is fair in love and moderation by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Many believe the key to keeping networks and data secure lies in watertight identity and log-in management, but what happens when you are using a variety of apps, platforms, and a hybrid of cloud and other servers and networks that cannot be used with the same ID management tool? A startup called Strata Identity working […]

Strata, a provider of identity orchestration to bridge disparate log-in procedures, raises $26M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Madrid has renewed the operating licenses for scooter-sharing services in the city. The city council has chosen three operators for the next three years — Dott, Lime and Tier. This trio of companies will sound familiar as these companies also won tender processes in several European cities in recent years. Madrid even says that it […]

Madrid selects Dott, Lime and Tier for scooter licenses by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges. Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. North and co-founder Sergei Egorov (who was a co-maintainer […]

AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on building financial applications, has launched a $150 million fund ecosystem initiative, the platform’s CEO and co-founder, Eric Chen, told TechCrunch. “We’ve seen a lot of ecosystem funds in the past do various things, but there isn’t really an established ecosystem fund for Injective and Cosmos as a whole,” Chen […]

Injective launches $150M ecosystem fund to accelerate interoperable infra and DeFi adoption by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

The company’s first order of business is to turn the waste from port-a-potties into fertilizers for farmers.

We flush valuable nutrients down the toilet. Wasted wants to save them by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

Google will allow smartphone vendors in India to license individual apps for pre-installation on their Android-powered devices and give consumers the ability to change search engine and use third-party billing options for apps and games purchases on Play Store starting next month, the Android-maker said as it makes broad changes to its business practices in […]

Google to ease agreement with phonemakers, allow third-party billing in India in major business revamp by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The biotech industry is experiencing a rush of AI-powered tools for many aspects of the complex drug discovery process. But one that has flown under the radar, increasingly thought to be key to certain diseases but woefully understudied, is RNA. With $35 million in new funding, Atomic AI aims to do for RNA what AlphaFold […]

With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch