April 29, 20220CommentsBrazil-based Inventa, a wholesale marketplace for SMBs to find suppliers, raises a $55M Series B led by Greylock, bringing its total funding to $80M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
April 29, 20220CommentsInstacart plans a strategy shift to sell software to grocers and more ads in its app, trying to avoid becoming another pandemic boom company that has fizzled (New York Times)
April 29, 20220CommentsSources: Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter’s direction pushed Elon Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned (Wall Street Journal)
April 29, 20220CommentsAt an all-hands early Friday, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover because it had underachieved as staff asked if Musk is serious (Casey Newton/Platformer)
April 29, 20220CommentsUS NTIA seeks comments on competition in the mobile app ecosystem, including Android and iOS app store policies, the issues web app developers face, and more (Bruce Lawson/Bruce Lawson’s personal site)
April 29, 20220CommentsAnthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei to explore large-scale AI systems, raises a $580M Series B led by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
