Mural, a crypto firm focused on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) infrastructure, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding, two of the company’s three co-founders Sinclair Toffa and Kevin Alvarez-Fung exclusively told TechCrunch. This was the company’s first outside capital raise through investors like Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Ventures, Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, Firstminute Capital, 186…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Alex Hofmann once served as Musical.ly’s president, overseeing the North and South American markets for the TikTok precursor, then leaving shortly after the app exited to Chinese tech giant ByteDance in 2017. For his next act, the startup exec returned to the consumer social space with the launch of 9count — the maker of the…
Some fast-food drive-thru experiences were immortalized by Joe Pesci in “Lethal Weapon 2” (expletives and all) when he basically said you never get a correct order. Fast-forward to today, and the technology is still a bit lacking, and any number of situations, from people talking in the background to a noisy engine, can inhibit the…
In the startup world, adding lines of business is always a risk. A company can spread itself too thin and end up not doing a great job at much of anything. Or it can stumble upon an offering that not only is a hit, but a hit that’s growing faster than its original, core product….
Hackers are using a familiar distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection page to trick people into downloading malware, researchers are saying. According to cybersecurity firm Sucuri, an unknown threat actor has been modifying poorly secured WordPress sites and adding a fake Cloudflare DDoS protection landing page. A DDoS attack works by sending large amounts of…
The excitement over social audio is palpable, judging by the number of companies building out apps like Clubhouse or features to support it.However, marketers should be aware of potential drawbacks of entering social audio right now.Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends,…
Stars Coffee opened in Moscow on August 19, 2022. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s rebranded Starbucks is a “totally different” brand, one of its owners told The WSJ. Stars Coffee sells frappuccinos, writes names on cups, and has a logo similar to Starbucks’. Another owner told the BBC the only similarity between the logos…
Erik Isakson/Getty Images According to May 2020 estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary in the US was $56,310. Insider compiled a list of 10 jobs that you might not expect to pay $125,000 or more a year. This list was made using job data from BLS, job listings from Indeed and…
Vladimir Putin. Alexander Demyanchuk/AP Europe’s energy crisis is nowhere near easing up and a difficult winter lies ahead, a SEB analyst has warned. Natural gas prices there have surged this summer, with one benchmark up 227% as Russia chokes off flows. “Putin will play this for all it is worth,” Bjarne Schieldrop said, with Russia…
Monod Bio’s management team, from left: David Shoultz, Daniel-Adriano Silva, and Alfredo Quijano Rubio. Monod Bio Monod Bio just raised $25 million in seed funding from investors like Matrix Capital. The company creates biosensors to diagnose diseases more efficiently than traditional lab tests. It plans to use the funding to further develop its technology and…