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March 26, 2024

900.care sells waterless personal care products and lets you add tap water at home TechCrunch Romain Dillet on March 26, 2024 at 5:00 am

Here’s the harsh truth behind personal care products: you’re mostly buying water and plastics. The main ingredient in a bottle of shampoo or shower gel is water, and by far. It is mixed with a bunch of active ingredients. And because it’s a “pre-mixed” product, companies spend a lot of money on plastic bottles to […]

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Meet Uzbekistan’s first unicorn: e-commerce startup Uzum TechCrunch Jagmeet Singh on March 26, 2024 at 5:00 am

Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding, becoming the country’s first unicorn with a valuation of $1.16 billion. Uzbekistan is fertile ground for startups, given the fact that people aged below 30 constitute about 60% of its population of […]

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Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare TechCrunch Ivan Mehta on March 26, 2024 at 6:22 am

Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending one-time SMS passwords to other users attempting to log into the platform, raising concerns about potential privacy risks and the exposure of personal […]

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How Ember is building an all-electric intercity bus network in the UK TechCrunch Paul Sawers on March 26, 2024 at 7:00 am

A Scottish company building one of the U.K.’s first all-electric intercity bus networks has raised $14 million (£11 million) in a Series A round of funding as it looks to expand across the entire country. Building any bus network from scratch — electric or otherwise — isn’t something anyone can conjure up overnight with a […]

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AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups TechCrunch Paul Sawers on March 26, 2024 at 7:00 am

A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical also heating up. Runa Capital, the venture capital (VC) firm that upped sticks from Silicon Valley and moved its HQ to Luxembourg in 2022, has published the Runa Open Source Startup […]

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