Month: May 2021
A16z bets millions on Maven, a platform for cohort-based courses
Maven, a startup that helps professionals teach cohort-based classes, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round places A16z general partner Andrew Chen on Maven’s board – and is his latest lead check in a creator-focused company, similarly pouring millions into recent rounds…
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The Best Laptop Backpacks for Work (and Life)
Whether you’re riding a bike or schlepping around a camera, these bags do the job right. Source
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PUBG New State going for Android alpha testing, iOS pre-registration begins soon PUBG New State
PUBG Mobile developers, Krafton announced the successor to the game called PUBG New State earlier this year. The announcement made it clear that this new battle royale will be set in the future in a city called Troi. The game was available for pre-registration on Android devices and now the…
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Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards
When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. The goal was to allow those users to keep users’ actual credit card numbers safe while allowing the option to cut off companies from their bank accounts. In…
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Tern’s Family Ebike Is Perfect and Preposterously Expensive
The best (and most expensive) cargo bike for small families now has a more powerful motor and wonderful kid-friendly accessories. Source
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Senators roll out bipartisan data privacy bill
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Klobuchar (D-MN) has teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC), to reintroduce the Social…
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