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With the number of people using email approaching 5 billion worldwide, newsletters delivered regularly to people's inboxes are a sticky way to grab attention, no matter what you're writing. It continues to look like. Now, in a sign of the medium's popularity, one of his startups, which is building a platform for creating and distributing newsletters, has announced funding. New York-based beehiiv has raised $33 million and plans to use the funds to expand its platform's technology as well as its business. NEA is leading the Series B, with participation from Sapphire Sport and previous backer Lightspeed Venture Partners. The…

WeTransfer will add a new feature that will allow users to sell files directly on the platform, the company announced on Tuesday. According to one study, 87% of content creators report late or missed payments. This new feature will allow photographers, designers, illustrators, and other creators to start making money right away without having to spend time chasing down invoices for payment. Additionally, creators don't have to deal with the additional costs of a website or storefront to sell. WeTransfer's integrated payments are powered by Stripe and are being rolled out to all users globally. The company says there will…

Letting women make the first move has been Bumble's modus operandi since its launch in 2014. Ten years later, the company wants to give women more control. “Opening Move” is a new feature introduced to allow women to pre-write their opening lines, allowing them to instantly send a message without having to come up with new words for each match. The feature is part of a major revamp of the app announced Tuesday that will allow women to prepare questions to send to their matches, as well as set additional dating intent preferences and prompts. In non-binary, same-sex pairs, both…

The ransomware group that hacked U.S. medical technology giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials that were not protected by multi-factor authentication, according to the CEO of parent company UnitedHealth. Accessed the company's systems remotely. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Whitty wrote ahead of Wednesday's House subcommittee hearing on the February ransomware attack that caused months of disruption across the U.S. health care system. I testified in This is the first time a major health insurance company has assessed how hackers infiltrated Change Healthcare's systems and exfiltrated large amounts of medical data from those systems. UnitedHealth announced last week that…

Yelp today announced a new AI-powered chatbot for consumers to help them connect with businesses relevant to their jobs. The company joins a long list of organizations that are turning to AI chatbots as a supporting medium. The company is rolling out its AI assistant in the Projects tab of its iOS app, with plans to expand to Android later this year. Yelp says the chatbot uses OpenAI's Large-Scale Language Model (LLM) and proprietary data to ask users questions about their problems and connect them with experts related to the job. Rather than using traditional search boxes to find experts…

Technology founder Dan Purcell was devastated to discover that his ex-partner had posted videos of their private, intimate relationships on a porn site without his knowledge. He was determined to come up with a solution to prevent such violations from happening again. His Ceartas startup has now raised a $4.5 million seed round from European VC firm Earlybird and Upside VC, a fund founded by YouTube influencer group The Sidemen. Ceartas DMCA was founded in 2021 by Purcell (CEO) and Jonny Smith (CTO) to apply AI to brand protection and anti-piracy services for content creators and brands. This is done…

Food is important to Nigerians, with households spending almost 60% of their income on food, the highest level worldwide, according to official reports. With this strong affinity for food and the rise of online shopping, Nigeria's food delivery market could reach $2-3 billion by 2032. Despite the promising market size, there is still no clear leader. But backed by Y Combinator and armed with a $2.5 million seed investment, Lagos-based Chowdeck is looking to make its mark in a field that has produced heavy hitters like Jumia and Bolt. Founded by Femi Aluko, Olumide Ojo, and Lanre Yusuf, Chowdeck offers…

The eyes are more than just windows to the soul. Tracking saccades can help doctors identify various problems with brain health. That's why French-Belgian medical technology startup Neurocruise is building fast, accessible eye-tracking technology that incorporates AI-driven analytics. The company wants to enable healthcare providers to use eye tracking to help diagnose neurodegenerative conditions. The company has begun to focus on Parkinson's disease, which typically already includes testing of patients' eye movements. Today, doctors ask patients to “follow my fingers,” but NeuroCruise allows clinicians to use a proprietary portable headset to capture eye movements at 800 frames per second, and…

It's hard to wake up in 2024 without reading about another big funding round in an enterprise AI company. Intuition, a new venture capital firm based in Paris, is doing something radical by betting solely on consumer technology. Behind the scenes, Hugo Amselem (pictured left) and Etienne Boutin (pictured right) will be the new fund's general partners. Hugo Amsellem works at Jellysmack and has been writing about consumer technology and influencers for several years. It also includes a very interesting article about loneliness and how it affects consumer technology and culture. Amsellem is also best known as one of the…

In the startup world, it's not uncommon to see talented people from successful companies founding their own ventures. This is especially true in European fintech, where graduates of unicorns like Monzo, N26 and Revolut are starting new companies one after another. Andrena Ventures, a UK-based solo GP fund, wants to support the snowball effect of this startup factory by investing in these second-generation startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. To that end, the company has raised $12 million from backers including multiple VCs and entrepreneurs. Gideon Valkin, the company's general partner, told TechCrunch that Andrena itself is sector agnostic,…