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Kotani gets $2M pre-seed to help African workers send money home via crypto — without the i

Of the many lofty promises of one of the most commendable ones is its potential to bring financial inclusion to underserved users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/

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Butternut Box wolfs down $354M for subscription canine cuisine

Butternut Box, a U.K.-based startup that prepares and ships healthy food and supplements for dogs, is raising£280 million ($354 million) in a round of funding from General Atlantic and L Catterton. Le

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Atomicwork connects workers and their companies

Sometimes the work of having a job takes time away from work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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OpenAI-backed language learning app Speak raises $16M to expand to the U.S.

Speak, an English language learning platform backed by OpenAI’s startup investment fund, the OpenAI Startup Fund, announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B-2 funding round led by angel invest

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Teale, your mental health companion at work, raises $11 million

French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Hyperproof, a compliance and risk management startup, raises $40M

Hyperproof, a risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital with participation from Toba Capital,

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MFast get backing from Wavemaker Partners to increase financial services access in Vietnam

The majority of Vietnam’s population live in rural areas and often lack access to financial services because banks and other institutions open most of their physical locations in cities. Learn more ab

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It's gadget season again

The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss all the gadgets announced at IFA 2023, the next flagship phone events from Apple and Google, and a whole lot more.Also: Nilay Patel bre

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Martian Lawyers Club raises $2.2M for AI-based game tech

The Martian Lawyers Club (MLC) wants to take game to the next level with the help of generative AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Allseated, a virtual venue tour and event planning platform, raises $20M

Allseated, a platform that helps event organizers plan and showcase venues virtually, has raised $20 million in an equity round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Lightspeed backs Markato, a marketplace that helps independent brands break into Asia

During the pandemic, almost all retailers in Asia established an e-commerce presence and adopted digital payments.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Who built the internet? And who will save it?

Today on the flagship podcast of social media monetization -The Verge''s David Pierce and Nilay Patel chat with Taylor Lorenz about her new book Extremely Online: The Untold Story of

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Subletting app Kiki raises $6M by using dating app concepts to match listings and renters

Kiki (formerly EasyRent), a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months, recently closed a $6 million seed round, its co-founder Toby Thomas-Smith exclusiv

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Devolut leverages e-commerce growth in Latin America to develop reverse logistics tool

Devolut enables merchants a returns option that doesn’t require boxes or labels. It also provides a network of “city points” where consumers can go to return more about your ad choic

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Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go away

Okta is a big company, a Wall Street SaaS darling. For most of us, it's the thing we have to log into 50 times a week just to get any work done. But from Okta's point of view, Jameeka Green Aaron told

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Moxie raises $15.7M to make opening medspas easier

Treatments like botox are becoming more ubiquitous, spurring growth in the number of medspas, or centers that offer botox, IV hydration and laser treatments from certified providers like registered nu

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Zepto becomes India’s first 2023 unicorn with $200 million fresh funding

Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Weekday puts the spotlight on job references

Job references are an important part of hiring the right person, especially for remote positions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Hustle Fund doubles down on its mission to build the YC of angel investing’

What do a chef in Turkey, a pilot in Australia, a physical therapist in Oregon, a submarine operator in the military and a DJ in the Bay Area all have in common? Learn more about your ad choices. Visi

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Threads' big moment, and Sony's big controller

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Threads' new web app, Sony's Playstation handheld, NFL 4K streaming, AI music copyright, and a whole lot more.Further reading:Elon Mus

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Cypago, which aims to automate compliance and governance for companies, raises $13M

There’s a growing number of cybersecurity regulations designed to keep business and customer data protected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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IBM sells The Weather Company assets to Francisco Partners

Following rumors that it was exploring the sale of its weather business as part of a move to streamline operations, IBM says that it’s found a buyer for The Weather Company.Learn more about your ad ch

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Meet Relume, the bootstrapped AI web builder that wants to supercharge Figma and Webflow

Despite the abundant venture capital available for startups in the current wave of generative AI breakthroughs, Relume has turned down investments and instead relied on bootstrapping since its launch.

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Dipp uses AI to fix bottlenecks between marketing and design teams

Before founding dipp, Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Mythical computers and super apps

Today on the flagship podcast of payment processing fees:04:36 - The Verge's David Pierce travels to meet Keegan McNamara, an artisan who is making unique computers for more purposeful use cases.A vis

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Teeny EV startup Arcimoto hooks up with defense contractor

What happens when a maker of tiny electric vehicles dips its wheels into the military industrial complex? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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B2B inventory marketplace Ghost reappears with $30M Series B to expand outside US

In the past year, the company grew its membership base to over 1,000 brands and retailers and saw its year over year gross merchandise value run rate grow over 10 times.Learn more about your ad choice

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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller keep them ha

Perkins Miller is the CEO of Fandom, which both hosts thousands of wikis for everything from Disney to Grand Theft Auto and also runs several publications. Millions of people contribute millions of pi

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Twiga lays off 33% of its staff, disbands in-house delivery and introduces logistics market

Twiga will conduct another round of layoffs to keep its business afloat amid macroeconomic headwinds that have made capital harder to raise, and forced venture-backed companies to scale down their ope

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Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

Wonder Brands has since launched over 15 brands in the past 12 months and over 2,000 SKUs in the categories of home and garden, sports and fitness and beauty and personal care more ab

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True Anomaly gets regulatory greenlight for first spacecraft reconnaissance mission

space technology startup True Anomaly has received key permits from regulators that will allow it to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous capabilities on-orbit for the first time. Learn

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Highlight, now flush with $18M, helps CPG brands automate product testing

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