Omni storage & rentals fails, shutters, sells engineers to Coinbase

$35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make...


Splice teaches AI to sell Similar Sounds as users double

Splice is blowing up like a hit song. The audio sample marketplace has doubled...


Placement is the much-needed talent agent for jobseekers

“We’re giving away money to strangers on the internet” is a...


Route’s app auto-tracks all your packages, raises $12M

Between Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and indie merchants, it’s easy to lose track...


Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment

Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached...


Where top VCs are investing in fintech

Over the past several years, ‘fintech’ has quietly become the unsung...


How Arweave’s Permaweb cheaply hosts sites & apps forever

What if you could pay now to store something online permanently? You could...


Japanese instant-credit provider Paidy raises $143 million from investors including PayPal Ventures

Paidy, a Japanese financial tech startup that provides instant credit to...


Latin America Roundup: Uber acquires Cornershop, Softbank invests in Buser and Olist

Brazil continued to churn out unicorns this month, with Curitiba-based Ebanx...


Gojek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim resigns to join Indonesian cabinet; Soelistyo and Aluwi to be new co-CEOs

Nadiem Makarim, founder and CEO of Gojek, said on Monday he has stepped down...