Menlo Ventures closes its latest early-stage fund at $500M; targets Series

Stripe acquires Nigeria-based fintech firm Paystack; terms undisclosed, but TechCrunch sources

European VC firm Brighteye Ventures announces the initial close of its

South Korea-based audio startup Cochlear.ai raises $2M Series A led by

Los Angeles-based podcast production company Qcode raises $6.4M led by Sonos;

India-based fintech firm Paytm has launched an app store within its

Barnes and Noble says it has suffered a data breach and

TikTok has asked a US judge to block the second planned

The We Company plans to revert to its former name WeWork,

YouTube starts blocking content that contains misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines; the

Khosla Ventures plans to raise $1.1B for its next fund, according

Beamable, which offers Unity-based tools enabling game developers to integrate social

London-based EV company Arrival, which manufactures zero-emission city buses and commercial

Amazon warehouse workers who are suing the company say Amazon has

Zoom launches its OnZoom events platform and marketplace in general availability;

This Week in Startups: Emergency Pod on iPhone 12 EventJason

Twitter follows Facebook in banning content denying the Holocaust; the company's

Vivun, which develops AI-powered pre-sales platform Hero, raises $18M Series A

State Department submits proposal to add China-based Ant Group to the

Brazil-based communications platform Take Blip raises $100M Series A from Warburg

M1 Finance, which provides an app for investing, borrowing, and spending

This Week in StartupsJason speaks with Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin

NASA announces

NY's State Department of Financial Services (DFS) publishes report on July

Zoom announces it will start rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) next

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