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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In the latest episode, they spoke with the Ben & Jerry’s cofounders about corporate activism. Greenfield says we need to “raise the bar” on what the threshold is to be an ethical business. See more stories…

Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, California. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another social network but instead the remaking of old-line industries through full-tech stacks — including hardware, software and data — capable of bringing them…

Phil Edmondson-Jones Contributor Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx, the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel’s most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. Once the uncool sibling of a flourishing fintech sector, insurtech is now one of the hottest areas of a buoyant venture market. Zego’s $150 million round at unicorn…

DUBLIN, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The “Recreational Boats Market by Propulsion (Outboard, Inboard and Sterndrive), Boat Size (Up To 20 Ft., 21 To 35 Ft.), Engine Type (Diesel, Electric), Horsepower (Below 250 HP, 250 to 500 HP) and Application (Fishing, Sports)- Global Forecast to 2027” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The recreational…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Amazon’s surging stock has made the world’s richest person even richer. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images The world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, is once again worth more than $200 billion, as shares of Amazon AMZN rose in anticipation of the company’s first quarter earnings report later this week.…

Cybersecurity firm Darktrace hit an opening valuation of £1.7 billion ($2.37 billion) with its London IPO. The firm priced its shares at 250p and saw that soar as much as 38% in the opening hour Friday. It represents a stronger early performance by a tech company in London than Deliveroo’s IPO in March. See more…

Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere. And they aren’t going to keep it on some random, or consumer-grade crypto operation. This requires more sophisticated technology. Furthermore, being in the EU is going to be a key barrier to entry for many US or Asia-based operations. Thus it is that Berlin-based digital asset custody…

Spotify launches paid podcast support, Amazon announces new tablets and we unveil the agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility. This is your Daily Crunch for April 27, 2021. The big story: Spotify adds support for paid podcasts As first announced in February, Spotify is now allowing podcasters to offer subscriber-only content, published through its Anchor podcasting…

Rather than a CEO-slamming sound bite free-for-all, Tuesday’s big tech hearing on algorithms aimed for more of a listening session vibe — and in that sense it mostly succeeded. The hearing centered on testimony from the policy leads at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter rather than the chief executives of those companies for a change. The…

NEW YORK, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —  The K-12 robotic toolkits market is expected to grow by USD 347.68 million during 2021-2025, according to Technavio. The report offers a detailed analysis of the K-12 robotic toolkits market in optimistic, probable, and pessimistic forecast scenarios.  Enterprises will go through the Response, Recovery, and Renew phases.  Download FREE Sample Report…