Category: Startups
Facebook’s Libra Association adds crypto prime broker Tagomi
$28 million-funded crypto startup Tagomi will be the newest member of the Libra Association that governs the Facebook-backed Libra stablecoin, TechCrunch has learned. A formal announcement of Tagomi joining was slated for Friday or next week. Tagomi offers a platform that helps large traders and funds easily access cryptocurrency markets.…
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Andreessen makes Ribbon Health the first investment from its $750 million new healthcare fund
One of the biggest roadblocks to reducing costs in the American healthcare system is the system’s inherent lack of transparency. Most healthcare networks and hospital systems can’t even accurately account for the doctors they manage and which insurance plans those doctors accept — let alone how good those doctors actually…
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Fintech CAC and the Great Credit Card Craze
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re getting two items out of my notebook while sticking to our recent fintech theme (Q1 fintech VC results here and more on investing patterns into the category here). Let’s chat…
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Hasura raises $9.9M Series A to simplify GraphQL for developers
Hasura, a startup working to solve developer problems around connecting to databases when using the open source GraphQL tool, announced a $9.9 million Series A investment today. Vertex Ventures US led the round with participation from SAP.iO Fund and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Strive VC. A number of…
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Tier Mobility acquires Coup’s electric moped scooters
Tier Mobility operates a scooter service, the kick-scooter-with-a-motor kind. And it has acquired assets from Coup, a now defunct scooter service, the moped kind. Coup shut down late last year, and Tier Mobility plans to take over and start its own shared moped service. To be clear, Coup is over…
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B-Social, the UK fintech building a ‘social bank’, raises additional £7.8M ahead of rebrand
B-Social, the London-based fintech building what it calls a “social bank,” is announcing that it has raised a further £7.8 million in seed funding. Once again the injection of capital comes from “high-net-worth” individuals. They include Rudy Karsan from Karlani Capital, although most of the investors remain undisclosed. It brings…
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