March 9, 20230CommentsUtah-based Consensus, which helps companies make personalized customer demos, raised $110M from Sumeru Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $139M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
March 9, 20230CommentsThe FBI acknowledges for the first time it bought US location data, director Christopher Wray says for a national security pilot project that’s no longer active (Dell Cameron/Wired)
March 8, 20230CommentsSources: Anthropic, which focuses on researching AI safety, raised $300M led by Spark Capital at a $4.1B pre-money valuation, after Google invested $400M (Kate Clark/The Information)
March 8, 20230CommentsSources: Uber is exploring whether to spin off its Uber Freight logistics arm to focus on its growing ride hailing and food delivery units (Bloomberg)
March 8, 20230CommentsSilvergate Capital plans to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank, with full repayment of all deposits (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)
March 8, 20230CommentsSources: Apple re-shuffles management of its international businesses with a bigger focus on India, making the country its own sales region for the first time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
March 8, 20230CommentsSources: Stripe is raising $6B at a $50B valuation from Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, a16z, and Founders Fund, plus Goldman Sachs’ private wealth clients (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
March 8, 20230CommentsSpotify revamps its podcaster tools to integrate Anchor, the podcast creation service it acquired in 2019, and partners with Patreon for creator monetization (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)