The U.K. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. A global health crisis notwithstanding, London remained a favorite for investors. U.K. cities…
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 June 25, 2021. We have a great block of startup news and Amazon coverage for you today. But before we get into all of that,…
TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising kicks off in just two weeks and we “see you shiver with antici…pation” (two points for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” reference). And who can blame you? We sure don’t. On July 8-9, this two-day virtual bootcamp will deliver leading startup gurus, mavens and masters serving up choice,…
Seattle-based Edge Delta, a startup that is building a modern distributed monitoring stack that is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic and Datadog, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tim Tully, the former CTO of Splunk. Previous investors MaC Venture…
FULTON, Md., June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SightGain , the only cybersecurity risk management platform that tests and analyzes organizational readiness – across people, process, and technology – has been moving quickly over the past six months. On the heels of winning the 2020 DataTribe Challenge – beating 400+ other cybersecurity startups last December -…
BOSTON and TOKYO, June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Wasabi Technologies , the hot cloud storage company , today announced the expansion of its Asia-Pacific presence with the opening of its Japanese headquarters. The headquarters will serve as a base for a variety of countries in the region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and…
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US/Israeli startup, Sorbet – which helps companies de-risk themselves against accrued paid time off (PTO) by employees — has raised another $15M, in a round led By Dovi Frances’ Group 11, not long after a $6 million seed round only last April. Sorbet says it removes the burden of PTO from employers, allowing employees to…
Joyride, a Toronto-based company that provides white label apps, back-end analytics and multi-modal fleet management for shared micromobility startups, has raised $3.7 million — seed money that it says will help it reach a greater number of small, local operators. The company, which operates in more than 160 markets in every continent besides Antarctica, has…
We are advised by the client that there are several changes in the release content. The complete, corrected version of the news release issued on June 17, 2021 by Venturous Group over PR Newswire is as follows: Record-breaking US$131 million Series A round for Smart Citytech company Venturous Group BEIJING, June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Venturous Group, China’s…





