India proposes 30% tax on crypto and NFTs income

India proposes 30% tax on crypto and NFTs income

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India on Tuesday proposed launching a digital rupee by next year and a 30% tax on income from transfer of virtual digital assets such as cryptocurrencies...

European micromobility startup Dott grabs $70 million

European micromobility startup Dott grabs $70 million

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Urban mobility startup Dott has raised an extension to its Series B round. Originally announced in the Spring of 2021, the company raised an...

Upskilling platform Scaler tops $700 million valuation in new funding

Upskilling platform Scaler tops $700 million valuation in new funding

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Scaler, an edtech startup that offers upskilling courses to working professionals in India, has raised $55 million in a new financing round...

Waymo can keep some driverless data secret for another 22 days

Waymo can keep some driverless data secret for another 22 days

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Waymo had small win Monday in its fight to keep certain details about its autonomous vehicle operations from public view. The Alphabet-owned...

Daily Crunch: Citrix to be acquired by Vista and Evergreen/Elliott in $16.5B all-cash deal

Daily Crunch: Citrix to be acquired by Vista and Evergreen/Elliott in $16.5B all-cash deal

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, January 31! We’re putting a bow on the first month of the year today, but that doesn’t mean we’re...

Max Q: NFTs… but for space stuff

Max Q: NFTs… but for space stuff

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Welcome back to Max Q, our weekly newsletter about space and the business thereof. NFTs were bound to intersect with space in a number of ways,...

Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform

Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform

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As is commonly the case, datasets used inside companies almost always come from diverse sources and in different, unstructured formats. Connecting...

Tiger Global and Greycroft back Nigerian investment app Bamboo in $15M round

Tiger Global and Greycroft back Nigerian investment app Bamboo in $15M round

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To buy a share in Amazon, you’d have to fork out almost $3,000. It’s a luxury very few can afford and despite the prospects of the trillion-dollar...

Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore raises $25M led by IFC and Endure Capital

Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore raises $25M led by IFC and Endure Capital

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The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 billion by 2024. The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth...

Pennylane wants to overhaul the accounting tech stack in France

Pennylane wants to overhaul the accounting tech stack in France

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French startup Pennylane has raised a $57 million Series B round (€50 million) from existing investors, such as Sequoia Capital, Global Founders...

Norrsken, VCs and 30 unicorn founders set up $200M fund to back growth-stage startups in Africa

Norrsken, VCs and 30 unicorn founders set up $200M fund to back growth-stage startups in Africa

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Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation is in the news again barely two months after opening its Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, which...

Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

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Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Besides the fact that over...

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation

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Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from...

The return of the lean, green startup

The return of the lean, green startup

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. The...