Month: April 2021
E-commerce investor Upper90 raises $55M for equity investments
It might be strange to hear this from a firm that just raised a $55 million equity fund, but the team at Upper90 would like to remind you that equity isn’t the only funding that’s available. Upper90 is led by CEO Billy Libby (former head of quantitative education sales at…
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Arcade Fire released an epic 45-minute single — in Headspace’s meditation app
Arcade Fire has a new single out — sort of. The Canadian indie rock band has released a new 45-minute instrumental composition called “Memories In The Age Of Anxiety,” but the new song is actually a collaboration with meditation app Headspace, and you can only listen to it there. The…
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US hits Russia with sanctions following SolarWinds cyberattack Zero-day attack
In response to the SolarWinds hack that occurred last December, the US has announced that it will impose sanctions on Russia which it believes was behind the massive cyberattack. The US Department of the Treasury provided further details on the actions it plans to take against Russia in a press…
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Facebook’s own ads reveal: not many people are using Facebook Dating
Dawn Hallson has tried nearly every dating app you can think of — Tinder, Bumble, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, and Match, just to name a few. So when a friend told her about Facebook Dating, she figured, why not give it a shot? She filled out her height, whether she…
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Join ECL on Wednesday to pitch your startup to Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand
Have you ever dreamed about the opportunity to find yourself in, say, an elevator with an investor who is open to hearing your pitch? Well, then the next episode of Extra Crunch Live is for you. If you’ve hung out with us on an ECL before, you know we start…
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Feels is a new dating app trying to ditch swiping for Stories
There’s a new dating app on the scene called Feels. Its unique selling point is an interface that feels closer to a Snapchat-style story or a TikTok feed rather than the swipeable cards found in other dating apps. TechCrunch reports Feels currently has around 100,000 users. Although the app is…
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