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Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut

This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 billion in 2019.

Chilean instant payments API startup Fintoc raises $7 million to turn Mexico into its main market

Fintoc's API lets online businesses accept instant payments coming directly from the customer's bank account. This method, known as A2A, offers an alternative to credit card transactions.

TechCrunch Minute: FTC bans noncompetes, court challenge incoming

The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 this week to ban noncompete agreements. While the FTC estimates that nearly one in five American workers is subject to a noncompete, these agreements haven’t b

RevenueCat raises $12M Series C as it expands its subscription management to the web

With RevenueCat Billing, essentially a web SDK, developers can accept subscription payments from any website.

Paystand acquires Teampay to be DeFi version of ‘Venmo for B2B payments’

“Teampay represents this new class of fintech companies that came up,” said Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond.

Petlibro’s new smart refrigerated wet food feeder is what your cat deserves

Petlibro, pet tech startup that designs automatic food dispensers for cats, launched its first refrigerated smart feeder.

Carv raises $10M Series A to help gamers monetize their data

Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices

Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices. Their startup is called DoubleYou, the name

Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser

It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing. The appeal is clear: The game you’re playing runs in a data center near you, and the video output is directly streamed

Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative

The company produces plant-based ingredients from raw microalgae biomass, generated from spirulina or chlorella, that it claims is more nutritious than meat.

Swiggy, the Indian food delivery giant, seeks $1.25B in IPO after receiving shareholder approval

Swiggy, an Indian food delivery and instant commerce startup, plans to raise $1.25 billion in an initial public offering and has secured approval from its shareholders, it disclosed in a filing to the

Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B, says it’s ‘ready’ to start developing drugs

Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery. On Tuesday, ARCH Venture Par

Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M

Augment, a startup developing an AI-powered platform similar to GitHub's Copilot, has launched out of stealth valued at nearly $1 billion.

Radical thinks the time has come for solar-powered, high-altitude autonomous aircraft

Though many eyes are on space as orbit develops into a thriving business ecosystem, Radical is keeping things a little closer to the ground — but not too close. Its high-altitude, solar-powered airc

Why code-testing startup Nova AI uses open source LLMs more than OpenAI

Enterprises still don't trust OpenAI, while open source AI models are cheaper and more than sufficient for targeted specific tasks, Nova AI founder says.

Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software

Dripos brings together point-of-sale, mobile payments, employee management and payroll, loyalty and marketing automation and administrative functions like accounting and banking.

TechCrunch Minute: Perplexity AI could be worth up to $3B. Here’s why

Perplexity AI‘s latest, large fundraising event could be quickly superseded by another, even larger chunk of capital, TechCrunch reports. Yes, the $62.7 million that the startup raised at just o

Seed-stage firm Eniac Ventures raises $220M across two funds

Eniac has raised $60 million for Select 1, the firm’s vehicle for follow-on later-stage investments, and $160 million for Eniac VI.

Stainless is helping OpenAI, Anthropic and others build SDKs for their APIs

Stainless, a startup building a platform to generate SDKs from APIs, has raised a seed round of funding from Sequoia.
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