Venmo announced today that it’s introducing teen accounts, allowing parents and legal guardians to open a Venmo account for their teenagers so they can send and receive money. The account, which has no monthly fees, also comes with a Venmo Teen Debit Card. Each Venmo Teen Account is connected to and managed by a parent’s […]
Venmo targets young consumers and parents with new teen accounts and debit card by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Two words jumped out at me while speaking with Opentrons CEO Jon Brennan-Badal and investor Vinod Khosla: reproducibility and repeatability. These are, of course, important concepts in the world of research. They’re keys to successful experimentation, but a lot of different variables can stand between them and researchers. It’s one of the foundational promises of […]
Opentrons aims to democratize lab access with its Flex robot by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
We’ve discussed Agility quite a bit over the last several years. Most recently, it’s been a focus on the Oregon firm’s push to commercialize. There’s no question that the technology is impressive here. That much was clear when it was still an OSU research project. The path to market, on the other hand, has been […]
Fetch founder Melonee Wise joins Agility Robotics at CTO by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
“Digital transformation” and AI remain very buzzy terms in the world of enterprise software, and today a startup out of Romania that’s built a platform that taps into both concepts, and is seeing user traction in the financial sector, has raised a decent round of funding. FlowX.ai — which lets enterprises port legacy and newer […]
Romania’s FlowX.ai raises $35M for its AI-based approach to application integration by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) confirmed today that Meta has been fined €1.2 billion (close to $1.3BN) — which looks to be […]
Meta ordered to suspend Facebook EU data flows as it’s hit with €1.2BN privacy fine by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Infinite Uptime, an Indian industrial IoT startup that offers predictive maintenance solutions for machinery, has secured an additional $18.85 million as part of an ongoing funding round led by Tiger Global at a valuation of $60 million post-money. The Series B3 round also saw participation from other existing investors including Mayfield, GSR Ventures, VenturEast and […]
Tiger Global backs Indian industrial IoT startup Infinite Uptime in $18.8M funding round by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch