Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised a $46 million Series B. YC Continuity led the round, which also saw participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. The round comes eight months after Pave closed a $16 million Series A round. Today’s financing…
Daily Crunch: Apple’s head of Privacy addresses concerns over Messages safety, child abuse detection
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 10, 2021. Today we have all sorts of goodies for you: Apple’s privacy stance, cannabis tech, even some crypto-focused items. Please enjoy. Also note…
The Senate voted 69-30 on Tuesday to pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, handing a major victory to President Biden and a group of senators that spent months negotiating on the agreement.Why it matters: The monster bill would deliver hundreds of billions of dollars for roads, bridges, waterways and other “hard infrastructure” items. It…
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The world is “going green” fast and investors are increasingly looking to help finance a better tomorrow by transitioning into a more sustainable environment. The market has fast evolved to include social and sustainable bonds with a specific emphasis on the especially attractive Green Bonds. In the past…
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Breeze, the Omaha-based insurtech startup, announced a $10 million Series A round to help advance its mission to protect American families in their most financially vulnerable moments. The financing round is led by Link Ventures, the Boston-based fund that found Breeze through its proprietary sourcing algorithms, and includes participation…
No matter how carefully you set up your systems, sooner or later something fundamental breaks. How you react during those times and how quickly you respond to the crisis is what people remember after it’s over. FireHydrant, a startup that helps companies prepare for and manage such crises, announced a $23 million Series B investment…
Butternut Box, a London-based fresh dog food business with a tech-driven platform that delivers HelloFresh-style, catered dogfood, has raised $55.4 million (€47.2 million) in a funding round led by L Catterton, the consumer-focused private equity firm, and included participation from White Star Capital, Five Seasons Ventures and Passion Capital. We covered their early funding round…
© Reuters. China’s Central Bank Outlook Fuels Calls for Policy Easing (Bloomberg) — China’s central bank fanned expectations of further monetary policy easing, saying in its latest quarterly report that inflation pressures are “controllable,” while highlighting risks to the economic growth outlook. The People’s Bank of China largely reiterated its stance of stable policy, pledging…
© Reuters. China’s New Oil Giants Flourish in Xi’s Clean Energy Wave (Bloomberg) — China’s newest oil refiners are thriving by aligning themselves with President Xi Jinping’s vision, expanding even as their older rivals and several other private businesses have been reined in by Beijing. These newcomers have gained the moniker Teapot 2.0 in China,…
2/2 © Reuters. Peru’s Finance Minister Pedro Francke gestures during an interview with Reuters in Lima, Peru, August 9, 2021. REUTERS/Angela Ponce 2/2 By Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s finance minister, Pedro Francke, told Reuters on Monday that the new leftist government can increase mining taxes to fund public spending without affecting…
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