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  • Hong Kong fintech Qupital partners with eBay to provide financing

    Qupital, a trade financing platform, announced today that it will partner with eBay as one of its officially recommended Hong Kong financing service providers. In today’s announcement, Qupital said it will provide offshore financing services, including working capital, to eBay sellers in China through QiaoYiDai, its main product.The agreement More

    Hong Kong fintech Qupital partners with eBay to provide financing for sellers
  • 3 questions for Lemonade’s IPO

    While we await a fresh IPO filing from heavily backed insurtech startup Lemonade, let’s talk a little more about its public offering.Since our first dig into its S-1 filing, TechCrunch has spoken to a number of investors and operators in Lemonade’s space to find out if our initial read was More

    3 questions for Lemonades IPO
  • A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech

    Over the past few months, COVID-19 has brought much of the fundraising community to a standstill. However, amidst it all India’s hyper0growth telco Reliance Jio Platforms has put its fundraising efforts into full gear.Over the past three months, Jio has raised over $15.5 billion from a cohort of investors that More

    A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech company in the world
  • Clockwise CEO Matt Martin: How we closed an $18M Series

    Matt Martin Contributor Matt Martin is CEO and co-founder of Clockwise, a San Francisco-based software company. More posts by this contributor Recession-proof your software engineering career It all started with an email from a customer: “Do you know why Bain Capital Ventures is reaching out to me about Clockwise?”That email would mark the beginning More

    Clockwise CEO Matt Martin: How we closed an $18M Series B during a pandemic
  • Salt Security closes $20M Series A to help protect APIs

    Today Salt Security, a startup that helps companies protect APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A. The Palo Alto-based company secured the new funds from Tenaya Capital, bringing its total capital raised to around $30 million.The Salt round caught TechCrunch’s eye as it fits reasonably well More

    Salt Security closes $20M Series A to help protect APIs