Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US official Kurt Campbell confronted Sequoia’s Don Vieira over funding Chinese startups that may threaten US security, leading to the three-way split  —  Scrutiny from Washington aggravated tensions within the venture-capital firm, fueling its decision to break up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based NoTraffic, an AI traffic intersection management service, raised a $50M Series B led by M&G Investments, following a $17.5M Series A in July 2021  —  AI-based traffic management platform NoTraffic has bagged $50 million in Series B funding as it picks up momentum … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Prosus, a top shareholder in Byju’s, cuts the value of its Byju’s stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Indian edtech giant’s recent $22B valuation  —  Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju’s, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Austin-based Cart.com, which offers end-to-end e-commerce tools, raised a $60M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after raising nearly $400M in three rounds in 2021  —  Cart.com, an Austin-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, entered unicorn territory following … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Nevada-based identity verification startup Socure acquires rival service Berbix for $70M in cash and stock; Berbix raised $11.6M in total, including $9M in 2020  —  Socure, the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 million Series E round at a $4.5 billion valuation during … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple’s cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops  —  Apple’s latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads.  But we talked to those professionals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Identity verification startup Socure plans to acquire rival service Berbix for $70M in cash and stock; Berbix raised $11.6M in total, including $9M in 2020  —  Socure, the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 million Series E round at a $4.5 billion valuation during … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation  —  The Israeli company’s data security platform learns an enterprise’s unique data and business purpose using large language models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google plans to offer DIY repairs for the Pixel Fold via its iFixit partnership, including the battery and inner, folding display  —  One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability.  Google is breaking new ground with the Pixel Fold … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A look at Newark Public Schools’ test of AI chatbot Khanmigo, one of the first in the US, and concerns over the tool doing too much of the students’ thinking  —  Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy.  The preliminary report card: “could use improvement.” Lees verder op Tech Meme