Archive for April 19th, 2008
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Posted by: amygdala on April 19, 2008
- Clozd, which offers tools for sales teams to analyze wins and losses, raises a $52M Series A led by Greycroft (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Do Kwon's proposal to relaunch the Terra blockchain passes with 65.5% of the governance vote; the network will go live on Friday without the UST stablecoin (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
- Car subscription service Finn raises a $110M Series B led by Korelya Capital at a $500M+ valuation to expand in the US and Germany (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
- DuckDuckGo confirms a researcher's findings that its browser allows Microsoft trackers on third-party websites, citing a search content agreement with Microsoft (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
- Speaking at Davos, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann says the global digital tax will not arrive in 2023 as planned due to slow negotiations (Dan Burns/Reuters)
- Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- An in-depth look at Meta's ongoing battle to keep Facebook and Instagram relevant as TikTok's growth explodes, including encouraging creators to use Reels (Bloomberg)
- After actor and producer Seth Green lost his BAYC NFTs to a phishing scam, his show based on those NFTs is in doubt; OpenSea says it has frozen the NFTs (Sarah Emerson/BuzzFeed News)
- UK payments startup Paddle acquires ProfitWell, which makes financial analytics tools, for $200M in cash and equity; Paddle raised $200M earlier in May (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)
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