Tech Meme

Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: Montreal-based Optable, which provides a data collaboration and clean room service, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M  —  Clean rooms are all the rage right now – and investors are noticing.  —  On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform Optable announced $20 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: VC funding for Web3 startups fell 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022 to $1.7B in Q1 2023; the number of public deals fell from 770 to 333, the lowest since Q4 2020  —  Editor’s Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Imgur plans to delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that’s not tied to a user account, starting on May 15, potentially erasing years of internet history  —  For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don’t even need an account to use it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Imgur plans to ban explicit images, but permit artistic nudity, from May 15, and expects issues as the service adopts a mix of automatic and human moderation  —  Image hosting platform Imgur is set to ban explicit images on its platform from May 15.  The company updated its terms of service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Amazon launches the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange, which lets retailers label and track counterfeits to make it difficult for counterfeiters to move among stores  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) has launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonah Elkowitz / Decrypt: P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum, Cardano, Cosmos, and 47 other blockchain programs, raised a $23M Series A to expand its portfolio  —  Founder Konstantin Lomashuk credits the recent Shanghai upgrade, which it says has increased institutional interest in Ethereum staking. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Berachain, a bear-themed tri-token crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital  —  – Berachain raised $42 million in a private token round led by Polychain Capital.  — The new Layer 1 blockchain is being built … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols  —  TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Docs: Tiger Global told investors that its $12.7B fund had a 20% paper loss as of December 2022, vs. an 11% loss as of September 2022 and 8% as of June 2022  —  Tiger Global Management’s $12.7 billion venture fund, launched near the peak of the tech stock boom in October 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: CoreWeave, which offers 12+ SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B led by Magnetar at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M  —  CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme