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Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers
Highbeam, a startup that provides banking features, credit and cash flow insights to e-commerce customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in debt from TriplePoint as it looks to expand the reach of its digital product portfolio. Co-founders Samir Shergill (previously at Microsoft, McKinsey and AppNexus) and Gautam Gupta (formerly of Shopify, Venmo and […]
Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Caldera raises $9M from two rounds led by Sequoia and Dragonfly Capital
Caldera, a no-code web3 infrastructure platform, raised $9 million across two rounds, its co-founder, Matt Katz, exclusively told TechCrunch. The startup was founded in March 2022 by Katz and Parker Jou, CTO of Caldera, in an effort to simplify the process of creating app-specific blockchains so builders can create layer-2 blockchains in the span of […]
Caldera raises $9M from two rounds led by Sequoia and Dragonfly Capital by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Introducing the Inside Startup Battlefield podcast
Startup competitions are a mainstay in Silicon Valley, and there probably isn’t a VC or founder out there who hasn’t heard of TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield. From the TechCrunch Podcast Network comes Inside Startup Battlefield — a four-episode miniseries that takes you behind the scenes of one of tech’s most anticipated startup competitions. Each episode […]
Introducing the Inside Startup Battlefield podcast by Maggie Stamets originally published on TechCrunch
Here are the tech industry’s 2023 Super Bowl commercials, with noticeably less crypto
At Super Bowl LVII, the Kansas City Chiefs referees emerged victorious over the Philadelphia Eagles. But maybe the real winner was us, the viewers, who did not have to sit through a bunch of crypto ads this year. (Also, Rihanna. She won.) These ads offer an insight into the way that the companies we write […]
Here are the tech industry’s 2023 Super Bowl commercials, with noticeably less crypto by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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Twilio cuts 17% of its workforce just months after previous round of layoffs
Twilio just announced that it will be conducting a round of layoffs that will impact around 17% of its global workforce. The company will also restructure its internal organization and create two business units — Twilio Communications and Twilio Data & Applications. Today’s news must be particularly difficult for Twilio employees as the company already conducted […]
Twilio cuts 17% of its workforce just months after previous round of layoffs by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch