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Hello friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, December 27.
Alex is on vacation and I am still captain of the ship. He will be back next week.
The news cycle tends to get quieter in the last weeks of December, so expect these daily recaps to be a bit more compact. We should be back in action next week, because that is when the Consumer Electronics Show is happening. Despite a number of the biggest companies pulling out, it is still happening.
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The top 3 tech companies.
Remembering the startups we lost in the year 2020. The sky is dark. It's a Loon! A few members of the team put together a list of the products, projects and tech companies that are shutting down this year. Fry's Electronics gets an honorable mention because it was not a startup, but a huge hole in the hearts of many who grew up wandering its aisles.
Team TC has an annual list of its favorite things of the year. We love doing this one, it ends up being a big mish-mashed list of stuff worth knowing about, and a glimpse into the in-the-moment headspaces of the people.
Is accessibility awareness leading to better accessibility? Companies are talking more about accessibility, but are their words leading to results? The co- founder of the Global accessibility Awareness Day takes us on a deep dive into the data.
The companies are startups/VC.
Naren Gupta, the co- founder of Nexus Venture Partners, died on Saturday at the age of 73. The venture capitalist helped "plant Indian SaaS startups on the world map."
Less than two months after launch, Nigerian edtech startup Teesas has raised a $1.6 million pre-seed round. The company offers a subscription program for students that gives them live and recorded content to complement what they are learning in school.
The Indian neobank startup is not the gas planet. The founder says the service has just short of half a million users. This round values the company at $711 million, more than doubling its valuation from August.
Foreign investors and mature startups are changing New Zealand's VC funding landscape.
New Zealand has over five million people and its startup scene is doing well.
The third consecutive year of growth saw investors bet over $150 million on over 100 deals. Foreign investors have taken notice of the exits like Pushpay and Seequent.
James Pinner, acting CEO of New Zealand venture, said that he was hopeful that over the next five years, we would see more successes in the market and that would create a positive halo effect.
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Big Tech is a company.
The Consumer Electronics Show is still set to go on as planned, but a number of big companies won't be there this time. T-Mobile was the first big name to drop its in-person presence at the show due to the ongoing COVID spike, and a number of other companies have followed.
Content moderation is a massive challenge that no major social network has gotten right. Machines aren't really up to the job yet, and hiring people to do it is like saying "You know all the vile, horrifying, absolute-worst bits of the internet?" Here is a firehose of it. A TikTok moderator sued their parent company, ByteDance, this week, saying they experienced trauma on the job and had to watch three to 10 videos at the same time.
The experts of tech.
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The flow of capital in the software as a service industry is becoming more separated. There are two types of companies, the haves and the have nots.
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In many sectors, low-end scuplture take hold at the bottom of the market and work up to satisfy more demanding segmen.
Micromobility was the idea of the year, a solution and a way of life really started to settle in. Small electric vehicles were made possible by increased shared micromobility and public transit.
Jupiter, a Bangalore-based startup founded by industry veteran Jitendra Gupta, has raised about $86 million in a new financing round.
According to PitchBook data, faith-based, mostly Christian, apps attracted $175.3 million in venture funding this year through mid-December, more than tripling the $48.5 million they attracted from...
The newMatrix film is a bit of a disaster, but it succeeds on a number of measures, even though it falls down on action, characters, pacing, visuals and most other measures.
Craig McLuckie, the VP of R&D at VMware, was the co-founder of the Kubernetes project during his time at Google, and he was recently fired.
The top 10 deals in enterprise M&A came in at just under $121 billion.
I had my first experience with a fitness ring at the Consumer Electronics Show. Four years later, one wonders if they might be having a moment at next week's show.
The relationship between the tech sector and global politics is examined in the project.
Suse Reynolds, chair of New Zealand's Angel Association, said that early-stage investment is maturing in New Zealand.
Naren Gupta was a venture capitalist who co-founded a company to help plant Indian software companies on the world map. He was 73. Gupta moved to the U.S. to pursue a higher degree of education.
The importance of accessibility is finally getting a message from organizations.
The relationship between the tech sector and global politics is examined in the project.
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