Tag: Startup

Pry Financials wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised $4.2 million from Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, NOMO VC, Liquid2 and Hyphen Capital.  Launched in March, Pry now has more than 200 customers…

PHOENIX, Aug. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Flex Technology Group (FTG) has once again been included in Inc. magazine’s annual list of America’s fastest-growing private companies for an unprecedented 12th consecutive year, with a ranking of #2273 for 2021. Making this prestigious list becomes more challenging each year as the company’s starting base revenue grows, so…

Digital commerce solutions provider Paysafe  (PSFE) – Get Report has agreed to acquire private German fintech company Viafintech in an all-cash transaction. The sale price was not disclosed in Paysafe’s Sunday statement. The transaction calls for Berlin-based Viafintech’s shareholders – majority owner Glory Ltd., 25%-owner Grenke AG, and the company’s founders Sebastian Seifert, Achim Bonsch and…

Mark Mills is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.” He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. More posts by this contributor Investors and politicians…

Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owner likes that. Egypt and Dubai-based auto tech startup Odiggo is a platform addressing this problem. It allows car owners to get the help they…

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, investors’ concerns mount as news came that the Chinese government has taken a stake ByteDance, TikTok’s parent and one of the world’s largest private…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…

NASA has temporarily halted work on a $2.9 billion human lunar landing system, which it contracted with Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Report founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX, until Nov. 1 to allow a lawsuit filed against the space agency by Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Report founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to run its course. “In exchange for this…

Samsung wasn’t quite ready to declare the Galaxy Note dead. Not just yet. When we put the question to the company again after this month’s Unpacked event, a rep told us: Samsung is constantly evaluating its product lineup to ensure we meet the needs of consumers, while introducing technology that enhances users’ mobile experiences. We…

Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  When COVID-19 first began to infect the world, my interviews with venture capitalists all somewhat fit into the same mold. Investors would tell me that they’re “triaging” their own portfolio to understand how to help startups rocked by…