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Fintech giant Stripe keeps on buying

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition, the role fintech played in Clio’s latest raise, the latest with digital banking startup Mercury, and more.  To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech … Continue reading

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Meta will pay Texas $1.4B in settlement over facial recognition software

Meta agrees to pay the state of Texas $1.4 billion over five years, and the first payment of $500 million is due in the next month, according to a court filing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use … Continue reading

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Airtable acquihires onboarding startup Dopt for AI talent

Airtable today announced that it has acquired Dopt, a startup focused on helping other startups build product onboarding experiences for new users. Earlier this year, Dopt introduced a number of features that helped users add AI-based assistance tools to their … Continue reading

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Friend’s $99 necklace uses AI to help combat loneliness

AI hardware is all the rage in startup land — though receptions have thus far been mixed. Two notable examples, Rabbit and Humane, released devices to disappointing results. a16z-backed Limitless and Exor-backed Bee AI, meanwhile, are working on their own … Continue reading

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Hey, there ARE Growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date

Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too little ‘growth capital’ funds, and, compared to the US, that’s true. That said, it is nowhere near non-existent on this front. To wit: Growth equity investor Kennet has just … Continue reading

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HealthEquity data breach affects 4.3 million people

HealthEquity said the March data breach included personal information and protected health data on millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Real-time database startup ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support

ClickHouse has made a name for itself as a real-time data warehouse for large enterprises. Its customer list includes Deutsche Bank, eBay, Fastly, GitLab, HubSpot, Microsoft, ServiceNow and Spotify. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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EU calls for help with shaping rules for general purpose AIs

The EU has kicked off a consultation on rules that will apply to providers of general purpose AI models under the bloc’s AI Act. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Siddhi Capital grabs $135M for Fund II to invest in consumer packaged goods startups

Siddhi Capital’s second fund of $135 million is double the size of the venture capital firm’s first fund and will go into CPG and food tech startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Fertility tracking app Flo Health raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation

Femtech, or tech that leverages innovations in AI, smartphones and connected wearables to give women more insights into reproductive and menstrual health, continues to gain momentum with users, and investors are following.  London-based Flo Health, a fertility-focused period-tracking app, on … Continue reading

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