Alibaba shakes up its leadership, OpenAI lobbies EU regulators, and the late-stage market is a mess

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. All the cool kids are filling out... Read more »

Abu Dhabi pours $738.5M into China’s Tesla challenger Nio

China’s electric vehicle companies are pouring into the Middle East where both investors and consumers have a growing appetite for the country’s Tesla challengers. Shanghai-based Nio announced Tuesday that... Read more »

iPhone 14 and M2 Macs get added to Apple’s Self Service Repair program

Whatever the specific motivations might be, giving consumers more access to repair their own electronics is general a net positive. After years of reffering consumers to Genius Bars, Apple... Read more »

Startup Battlefield winner Render raises $50M series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners

Cloud platform startup Render closed a $50M series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Additional participation in the round includes General Catalyst, South Park Common Fund, and Addition... Read more »

Spotify’s revamped desktop app lets you browse and organize your libraries like you do on mobile

Spotify is updating its desktop experience with redesigned “Your Library” and “Now Playing” interfaces, the company announced on Tuesday. The new changes are designed to align Spotify’s desktop experience... Read more »

Jane Technologies launches innovative point-of-sale platform for cannabis dispensaries

Jane Technologies today announced the launch of its new point-of-sale platform that it says will improve the overall cannabis shopping experience with reliable online listings and in-store curated shopping... Read more »

Rivian to adopt Tesla’s NACS charging standard

Rivian is the latest automaker to jump on Tesla’s charging standard, the North American Charging Standard (NACS). This comes just weeks after Ford and General Motors announced that their... Read more »

Oso sees huge opportunity in simplifying authorization for developers

We all know what authentication is. You enter a user name and password, or your face or your fingerprint, and you can access a device or an application, but... Read more »

Diabetes management startup Clivi wants to be ‘Livongo of Latin America’

Over 422 million people around the world have diabetes, with the World Health Organization noting that the majority of those with the disease are living in low-income and middle-income... Read more »

Cloudflare launches Observatory, a tool to beef up web monitoring

Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic,... Read more »
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