Warming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares

The late-stage startup market is sorting out how to value startups that had raised capital during the previous venture boom — Tiger Global Management recently resorted to selling individual... Read more »

Robinhood acquires credit card startup X1 for $95M

Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was acquiring X1, a no-fee credit card startup, for $95 million in cash. X1, which offers an income-based credit card with rewards, raised... Read more »

MongoDB readies its Atlas database service for new workloads

At its MongoDB.local NYC event, MongoDB today announced a slew of product releases and updates. Given the company’s focus on its fully-managed Atlas service, it’s no surprise that the... Read more »

Plaid unveils new collaboration network aimed giving fintechs a way to share fraud intelligence

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Fintech startup Plaid got its start as a company that connects consumer bank accounts to financial applications, but has... Read more »

DuckDuckGo’s Windows browser is now available in open beta

DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is now available for Windows users. The Windows rollout comes nine months after the browser launched publically for Mac users. The Windows browser, which is now... Read more »

YouTube TV’s multiview feature now offers non-sports content

YouTube TV has expanded its multiview feature beyond sports, adding options for news, business news and weather content, the company announced yesterday. The feature allows subscribers to choose from... Read more »

Omeat emerges from stealth with beefy tech approach to cultivated meat growth media

If you’ve been paying attention to the food tech industry lately, you saw a lot of movement in the past week around both Good Meat and Upside Foods receiving... Read more »

Acryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform

With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked, meanwhile — forced to cater to... Read more »

TechCrunch Disrupt’s Security Stage highlights the risks of spyware, government surveillance

Governments all over the world, authoritarian and democratic, use spyware to hack the phones of activists, journalists, and political rivals who are critical of their governments. Initially, the spyware... Read more »

MotherDuck launches its DuckDB-based cloud analytics platform

Open source database company MotherDuck, which has raised a total of $47.5 million, today announced the launch of its serverless cloud analytics platform. Co-founded by Google BigQuery founding engineer... Read more »
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