Latin America Roundup: Loft raises $175M, SoftBank invests in Mexico’s Alphacredit and Rappi pulls back

Latin America Roundup: Loft raises $175M, SoftBank invests in Mexico’s Alphacredit and Rappi pulls back

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Sophia Wood Contributor Share on Twitter Sophia Wood is a principal at Magma Partners, a Latin America-focused seed-stage VC firm with...

Customer feedback is a development opportunity

Customer feedback is a development opportunity

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Kyle Lomeli Contributor Share on Twitter Kyle Lomeli is the CTO and a founding engineer at CarGurus.com. Online commerce accounted...

Legacy, a sperm testing and freezing service, just raised $3.5 million to send the message to men: get checked

Legacy, a sperm testing and freezing service, just raised $3.5 million to send the message to men: get checked

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Legacy, a male fertility startup, has just raised a fresh, $3.5 million in funding from Bill Maris’s San Diego-based venture firm, Section...

You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product

You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product

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Ann Miura-Ko Contributor Share on Twitter Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member...

You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product

You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product

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Ann Miura-Ko Contributor Share on Twitter Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member...

Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress

Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress

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More than a year and a half after wireless carriers were caught red-handed selling the real-time location data of their customers to anyone...

Tech companies, we see through your flimsy privacy promises

Tech companies, we see through your flimsy privacy promises

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There’s a reason why Data Privacy Day pisses me off. January 28 was the annual “Hallmark holiday” for cybersecurity, ostensibly a day devoted...

Unicorn fever as One Medical’s IPO pops 40% after conservative pricing

Unicorn fever as One Medical’s IPO pops 40% after conservative pricing

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Shares of One Medical are worth $19.50 this morning after the venture-backed unicorn priced its IPO at $14 per share last night. The company...

Daily Crunch: IBM names new CEO

Daily Crunch: IBM names new CEO

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Last day for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

Last day for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

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Today’s your last day to score early-bird pricing on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020, which takes place on March 3. If you want...

After earnings, Amazon joins the $1T club as Alphabet dips out

After earnings, Amazon joins the $1T club as Alphabet dips out

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American tech companies almost did something neat today before messing it up. After reporting earnings yesterday, Amazon’s shares shot higher...

Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS’s market share lead stays strong

Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS’s market share lead stays strong

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When analyzing the cloud market, there are many ways to look at the numbers; revenue, year-over-year or quarter-over-quarter growth — or lack...

How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok

How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok

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Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P), Dubsmash was bleeding...

Moda Operandi, an online marketplace for high-end fashion, raises $100M led by NEA and Apax

Moda Operandi, an online marketplace for high-end fashion, raises $100M led by NEA and Apax

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Moda Operandi, an online marketplace that specialises in right-off-the-runway luxury fashion, accessories and home decor, is today announcing...

First thoughts on One Medical’s IPO pricing

First thoughts on One Medical’s IPO pricing

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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re digging...

How to blow through capital at an incredible rate

How to blow through capital at an incredible rate

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It was yet...

How Bykea is winning Pakistan’s ride-hailing and delivery market

How Bykea is winning Pakistan’s ride-hailing and delivery market

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Increasingly, the streets of Karachi and Lahore are being flooded with men riding bikes and wearing green T-shirts, a writer friend recently...

Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

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Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday’s new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source – Elon Musk....