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Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

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Nicholas Johnson founded a company because he lost a bet. Johnson was having dinner with some investors in Lyt, a road congestion management company he had co-founded. As the dinner conversation meandered, it settled on EV charging and how best to bring it to multi-family housing. Apartment dwellers who own EVs are often left with […]

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Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A

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PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations (HOAs), is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. It just raised a $27.5 million Series A round in an environment where nearly $30 million Series A rounds are no longer common. PayHOA founder and CEO Mike Bollinger has

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Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico

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Cargo ships docking at a commercial port incur costs called “disbursements” and “port call expenses.” These might include port dues, towage, and pilotage fees. It’s a complex patchwork and all ports operate their own procedures, much of it on spreadsheets. The global cost from port calls, for all vessels, is over $220 billion dollars per

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David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast

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Glue AIImage Credits: Glue If you use Slack at work, you’ve likely noticed that the number of channels you’re invited to proliferates incessantly.  David Sacks, one quarter of the popular “All In” podcast and a renowned serial entrepreneur whose past companies include Yammer –  an employee chat startup that sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion

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After surpassing $100M in ARR, Harness Labs grabs a $150M line of credit

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Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially a line of credit that the company can draw on

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From Miles Grimshaw to Eva Ho, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

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When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big name in the industry. It was surprising because unlike in many other fields, venture capitalists don’t traditionally move

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Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico

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Buy-now-pay-later services have become so ubiquitous that BNPL may as well just be another way to say ‘debt.’ But in Mexico, where BNPL platform Aplazo operates, a large underbanked population makes BNPL more like an alternative to cash. The four-year-old Mexican fintech startup facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer

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StrictlyVC London welcomes Phoenix Court and WEX

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StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from the Silicon Valley and global VC scene while creating meaningful connections over cocktails and canapés with leading investors, entrepreneurs and executives. And TechCrunch is excited to join forces with key players in the London investment community at our next StrictlyVC event. We’re pleased to have Saul Klein, co-founder

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