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Zanifu, a Kenyan fintech providing inventory financing to micro, small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $11.2 million debt-equity funding in a pre-Series A round led by Beyond Capital Ventures and Variant Investments. Founders Factory Africa, AAIC Investment, Google Black Founders Fund, and existing investor Launch Africa also participated in the round. This brings total debt-equity…

Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general that an investigation had found that two former employees leaked over 75,000 individuals’ personal information to…

Zoom, a pandemic-era star that become synonymous with online video conferencing, could look to AI technologies to boost in near-term earnings growth…

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll…

Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Haven’t had your eyes glued to the headlines? Not to worry. That’s our job, and we’ve compiled them in the nifty little digest that is WiR. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover…

For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.” As part of the deal with government agencies, Cellebrite asks users to…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinYou like potato and I like potatoe, You like tomato and I like tomatoe; Potato, potatoe, tomato, tomatoe! Let’s call the whole thing off! Brothers George and Ira Gershwin wrote the song “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ memorable roller-skating duet in the…

It’s actually cheaper than the smaller carry-on and is built to “last for many years.”…

Anyone with a Costco card knows you save more when you buy in bulk. Now apply that same theory to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and you can save a bundle when you take your team, your clients or your star startups to San Francisco in September. Heck, take your family and let them see what you…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinOnly 15% of tech startup founders are female, according to a survey conducted by a global advisory and research organization focused on startups. In the realm of cybersecurity, the statistics are even more discouraging: for startups that manage to secure funding exceeding $1 million, the proportion of female CEOs…