Human rights activist Amira Yahyaoui is battling the US college financial aid system
Her startup, Mos, is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Kleiner Perkin's John Doerr ...
Her startup, Mos, is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Kleiner Perkin's John Doerr ... The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announced a partnership with Visa to offer virtual, pre-paid debit cards to Branch client networks in Africa, South-Asia and Latin America. Branch — which has 150 employees in San Francisco, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City and Mumbai — ... Cora, which sells organic tampons and pads, has raised $7.5 million. It's the latest in a long series of deals in the femtech space. ...
LEGO has released a wonderful diorama of the San Francisco skyline!
Sadly, the San Francisco skyline is now dominated by the giant Salesforce tower, atleast until the Millenium tower falls into it.
LEGO Architecture Skyline Collection 21043 San Francisco Building Kit , New 2019 (565 Piece) via Amazon Read the rest Guest writing for Extra Crunch / TechCrunch We have published a smattering of interesting guest posts on TechCrunch and Extra Crunch from experts in their fields who want to spread their smart ideas to more people. Know someone who is brimming with ideas that deserves a larger platform? Definitely drop us a line and read ... Amid calls for a dozen different global cities to replace Silicon Valley — Austin, Beijing, London, New York — nobody has yet nominated “nowhere.” But it’s now a possibility. There are two trends to unpack here. The first is startups that are fully, or almost fully, remote, with employees distributed around the world. There’s a ...
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GoFundMe, the company, just donated $5,000 to a GoFundMe campaign set up to both counter and troll yet another GoFundMe campaign. But wait, it gets even weirder. In this convoluted battle of the ... ... Foundry Group has led the round for Boundless, an information platform providing immigrants tools and support. ... Ouster has raised $60 million as the San Francisco-based lidar startup opens a new facility that will have the capacity to assemble and ship several thousand sensors a month by the end of 2019. The new factory, which will have a grand opening ceremony March 28, currently produces hundreds of sensors per month. Ouster says ...
I've had a fabulous weekend at Chicago's C2E2 festival as part of my Radicalized book-tour, and now I'm heading to San Francisco for an appearance on Monday night at Berkeley Arts & Letters at 7:30PM with Richard Kadrey. Then it's on to The Revolutionary Reads series at Ft Vancouver (outside of Portland, ...Human rights activist Amira Yahyaoui is battling the US college financial aid system
Partnering with Visa, emerging market lender Branch International raises $170 million
Femtech’s billion-dollar year
The LEGO San Francisco skyline includes the Salesforce *******
April Fools’ Day, rebuilding edtech, and trash fires
Remote workers and nomads represent the next tech hub
GoFundMe donates to GoFundMe that’s trolling another GoFundMe
Boundless gets $7.8M to help immigrants navigate the convoluted green card process
Lidar startup Ouster raises $60 million in production run-up
San Francisco! Come see me and Richard Kadrey in Berkeley on Monday with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim!