Monthly Archives: September 2022

Checkmate captures all of your shopping deals so you don’t have to

The more coupon codes we can find for online shopping the better, but Harry Dixon, Rory Garton-Smith and Elliot Rampono thought something was missing: the ability to house all of the various savings we receive in one place. “Marketing channels have become saturated and everyone is trying to figure out their own channels,” CEO Dixon,…

timeOS is a Chrome extension that puts your meeting details in one place

Meeting reminders can be tough to navigate. Even if you get a notification 10 or 30 minutes before the meeting you might forget to join or struggle to find the meeting link moments before joining. Magical, a productivity company, aims to solve these problems with a Chrome extension called timeOS. This extension shows your next meeting’s details…

IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun

Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of taking on the risk of backing potentially promising ideas and people who have stayed in the country amid the sustained, persistent and increasingly ugly onslaught from Russia. But just as there are glimmers that…

John Oliver examines Bolsonaro’s disastrous treatment of the Amazon

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took a deep dive into the disastrous environmental impact of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro since taking office in 2019, with Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions growing by 9.5 percent amid the pandemic (while worldwide levels fell by 7 percent), and deforestation in the country hitting its highest point in a…

‘House of the Dragon’ episode 6: We need to talk about Laena Velaryon’s death

Another week, another House of the Dragon episode fuelled by fire, pain, and death. And although Larys Strong’s overtly sociopathic decision to kill his own father and brother in an attempt to further his own efforts may have stolen the headlines, there was another equally fiery and devastating death that deserves our attention. Namely, that…

Goldman Sachs’ bankers get their marching orders as Wall Street starts to purge under-performers

Hi. I’m Aaron Weinman. Roughly a dozen investment bankers said their farewells to Goldman  Sachs on Friday. Senior associates and vice presidents in Goldman’s tech, media, and telecommunications team were handed pink slips in a further sign of strain on a Wall Street apparatus that is hamstrung by depressed dealflow, and suffering from a slowing…

3 chimpanzees are being held for ransom after being stolen from a sanctuary in Congo, as experts fear more widespread animal kidnapping

A baby chimpanzee, unrelated to the story, is shown here. iStock / Getty Images Plus Three baby chimpanzees are being held for ransom, said founders of a primate rescue sanctuary in Africa.  The ransomers threatened to decapitate the animals, said the owners.  The chimps had previously been rescued from traumatic animal trafficking.  Three baby chimpanzees…