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Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are cofounders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to cofound Forge, which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell private company shares and which most recently raised $150 million in new funding in May. Forge — originally known as Equidate —  has taken off…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been teasing a neural network training computer called ‘Dojo’ since at least 2019. Musk says Dojo will be able to process vast amounts of video data to achieve vision-only autonomous driving. While Dojo itself is still in development, Tesla today revealed a new supercomputer that will serve as a development…

For most people in India, having to engage with banks doesn’t instill a sense of joy. Banks in the South Asian market are notorious for making unannounced spam calls to upsell customers loans and credit cards, even when they have been explicitly asked not to do so. Moreover, when a customer does reach out to…

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The great-grandson of a successful Black real estate developer who used his influence to integrate his community, fintech entrepreneur Wole Coaxum carries on his family’s dream by bringing financial services to the unbanked across America. After a devastating year, Christmas came early for 4,000 financially hurting residents of Honolulu. Early last December, they received personalized…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin This dinky little stand and hub from Satechi can turn an iPad Pro into a versatile workstation with … [+] USB ports, graphics output, audio jack and memory card slots. Satechi Apple’s iPad Pro is a fabulous machine. At its heart is the Apple M1 processor and it…

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ISTANBUL, June 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The clinic’s staff is well-experienced and has performed thousands of hair transplants successfully. In addition, both technicians and doctors have worked in accredited hospitals. Smile Hair Clinic is an established hair transplant clinic in Turkey. What drives it towards the future is its excellent certified doctors. Dr. Mehmet Erdoğan,…

Today, on Juneteenth, we recognize the efforts this nation still needs to put toward addressing structural racism and disparities, including in the world of tech. This week, HBCUvc, a nonprofit that aims to diversify the world of venture capital, launched a million-dollar fund. Founder Hadiyah Mujhid told me that the capital would provide nondilutive financing…

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…