This is a newsletter from TechCrunch, a technology news website. The newsletter covers various topics related to startups and tech, including funding rounds, acquisitions, product launches, and industry trends.
Here are some of the key articles mentioned in the newsletter:
- Startups Weekly: The author provides an overview of recent startup news, including:
- Duolingo sees a 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to Red.
- Tesla to split $100M award for electric truck charging corridor in Illinois.
- Funding Roundup:
- Indian aquaculture startup eFishery nets a $200 million round of investment at a valuation north of $1 billion.
- Sourcetable raises $3 million in funding, claiming the future of spreadsheets is spreadsheets.
- Acquisitions: DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111 million in cash.
- Product Launches:
- Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes.
- Colossal Biosciences raises $200M at $10.2B valuation to bring back woolly mammoths.
- Industry Trends: The author notes that there’s still investor appetite for triple-bottom-line companies, even as the market is tougher than it’s been in the past.
Some other notable articles mentioned in the newsletter include:
- OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why.
- PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole ‘all’ historical student and teacher data.
- UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months.
