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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Munich-based car subscription startup Finn, which manages 25K subscriptions in Germany and the US, raised a €100M Series C at a €600M post-money valuation  —  Finn, a startup based out of Munich that operates a platform for new car subscriptions — an alternative to buying or leasing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Munich-based car subscription startup Finn, which manages 25K subscriptions in Germany and the US, raised a €100M Series C at a €600M post-money valuation  —  Finn, a startup based out of Munich that operates a platform for new car subscriptions — an alternative to buying or leasing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Coulter / Reuters: London-based Hyperexponential, which offers math modeling tools to insurance companies to help price policies, raised $73M led by Battery Ventures  —  U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has backed London-based insurance startup Hyperexponential in a $73 million funding round, the insurance software company said on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google’s Gboard adds a physical keyboard toolbar on Android tablets, to access the clipboard, translation, and more, after adding stylus handwriting support  —  After rolling out the new stylus handwriting capabilities last month, Gboard now offers a physical keyboard toolbar on Android tablets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Ripple Labs, creator of the XRP cryptocurrency, plans to buy back $285M in shares from early investors and employees, sources say at an $11.3B valuation  —  Cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs, known for its XRP coins, is buying back $285 million worth of shares in the company from early investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: PitchBook: female-founded US companies raised $44.4B out of $170.59B in VC funding in 2023; companies with all-female founding teams raised ~$3.1B, down 39% YoY  —  Female-founded companies in the U.S. raised $44.4 billion out of the $170.59 billion in venture capital allocated last year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louise Matsakis / Semafor: Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech  —  Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google reorganizes its Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google  —  Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Strachan / VICE: A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023: ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic and 60%+ believe AI will lead to less hiring  —  9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring.  Only 6% were confident they’d get another job with the same pay. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023  —  A disastrous 2023 for crypto startups hasn’t dissuaded true believers.  —  Cryptocurrency startups had a brutal 2023 … Lees verder op Tech Meme