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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

TechCrunch

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies.

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Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

TechCrunch

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. “There’s already value in what we post on social media. ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform. .

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SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

TechCrunch

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”.

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YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

TechCrunch

Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps. Deskimo was launched in February by Raphael Cohen, Rocket Internet’s former head of Asia, and Christian Mischler, who co-founded Foodpanda and served as its global chief operating officer.

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Building the Woke Web: Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice

A List Apart

What would your life be like without the internet? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Living without internet. Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life.

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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform

TechCrunch

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry. I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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Hive raises $85M for AI-based APIs to help moderate content, identify objects and more

TechCrunch

The company has been somewhat under the radar since it was founded in 2017, in what appears to have been a pivot from founder Kevin Guo’s previous startup, a Q&A platform that was called Kiwi, which itself was a product of a project out of his time at Stanford. The company has now raised $121 million. .