Month: May 2021
Jai Kisan, a fintech startup aimed at rural India, raises $30 million
Jai Kisan, an Indian startup that is attempting to bring financial services to rural India, where commercial banks have a single-digit penetration, said on Monday it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its business. Hundreds of millions of people in India today…
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The Pandemic Has Left Us With A Lingering Trauma About Money
The disastrous COVID pandemic of 2020 and 2021 has changed every part of our lives. The way we make, spend, invest, save, and waste our money will be different forever. During the Great Depression, the sudden financial crisis wiped out both people’s savings and their trust in banks. It led…
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Instagram making changes to its algorithm after it was accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content
Facebook-owned Instagram has made changes to its algorithm after a group of its employees reportedly complained that pro-Palestinian content was not viewable for users during the conflict in Gaza. Instagram typically surfaces original content in its stories before reposted content, but will now begin to give equal weighting to both,…
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Vilnius, Lithuania built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected
Weary of pandemic travel restrictions and aching to get out and see new people? The city of Vilnius, Lithuania has interesting solution: A real-time “portal” to another city. They really went all-in on the idea and the design; it looks quite a bit like something out of the erstwhile sci-fi…
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New Trailers: The Tomorrow War, Eternals, Infinite, Werewolves Within, and more
So tonight is the finale for Mare of Easttown and there are so many threads that need to be tied up that I legitimately don’t know how they’ll answer all the open questions. I have a theory of who the killer is, and I don’t think it’s the same person…
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Indian logistics giant Delhivery raises $277 million ahead of IPO
Delhivery, India’s largest independent e-commerce logistics startup, has raised $277 million in what is expected to be the final funding round before the firm files for an IPO later this year. In a regulatory filing, the Gurgaon-headquartered startup disclosed it had raised $277 million in a round led by Boston-headquartered…
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