Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:JumpCloud, a cloud-native directory service for enterprises, raises $100M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to $191M — JumpCloud, a cloud-native directory service for enterprises, has closed its BlackRock-led series E round of funding at $100 million following …
Patrick Frater / Variety:Study: Asia’s online video market passed $30B in 2020 as subscription revenue overtook ads for the first time; avg. growth/year is projected at 12% until 2025 — Asia’s online video market surpassed $30 billion for the first time in 2020, according to new research.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Jobber, which makes management software for home services professionals, raises $60M led by Summit Partners — One of the technology byproducts of the Covid-19 pandemic is that it has raised the game for businesses to have better digital tools in place to interface with customers, and their own work, to get things…
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Jim Wilson / Safety Detectives:Chinese startup Socialarks leaked 400GB of scraped data of 200M+ Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn users — High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several …
Nick Carey / Reuters:Aptiv announces its next-gen self-driving platform, which it claims could save up to 20%-30% of costs for carmakers compared to its earlier system — LONDON (Reuters) – Auto supplier Aptiv PLC on Monday unveiled its next generation technology platform for automated driving …
Jason Koebler / VICE:Salesforce said it had “taken action” against RNC from sending emails that may lead to violence; RNC says it has stopped fundraising on all digital platforms — The Donald Trump campaign has not used its millions-strong email list since the riots at the Capitol.
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:Critics say Indian edtech startups, which raised $2.2B in 2020, are recruiting gig teachers with little training to meet demand fueled by the pandemic — Startups in India want to apply Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth playbook to children’s education. But is anyone learning anything?
Jay Greene / Washington Post:Amazon says it will begin removing QAnon products from its site and third-party merchants attempting to list QAnon goods may have selling privileges revoked — The e-commerce company will block sales in the coming days of products that reference the baseless conspiracy theory whose adherents …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:Curve, which combines all of a customer’s debit and credit cards into one app and a linked “smart” card which they can use for payments, raises $95M Series C — – Curve combines all of a customer’s debit and credit cards into one app and a linked “smart” card they can use…
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:Indonesia-based BukuKas raises $10M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India to digitize SMBs with an “end-to-end software stack”, bringing total raised to $22M — The backbone of Indonesia’s economy are small- to medium-sized businesses, which account for 60% of its gross domestic product.