Worldover is a compliance platform for cosmetic products (and soon any product)
Meet Worldover, a new London-based startup that recently received $3.8 million in funding (£3 million). The startup is trying to simplify the compliance process when it comes to launching new products in multiple markets around the world — starting with cosmetics. Index Ventures and Chalfen Ventures led the recent funding
Read moreKotani gets $2M pre-seed to help African workers send money home via crypto — without the internet
Of the many lofty promises of cryptocurrency, one of the most commendable ones is its potential to bring financial inclusion to underserved users. Nairobi-based Kotani Pay is a crypto payments startup with a vision to make cross-border remittances easier for the large underbanked populations in Africa. The two-year-old startup is
Read moreEnvisics closes $100M to advance AR heads-up display tech in cars
Envisics, a UK-based holographics company building in-car technology that projects navigation, safety alerts and other data onto the inside of a windscreen, has closed a $100 million Series C round. The company announced the round’s first $50 million tranche in March, which brought Envisics up to a $500 million valuation.
Read moreProtestors rally at Cruise HQ in San Francisco
Protestors gathered Monday outside Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco after reports of one of its robotaxis blocking an ambulance with a patient on board who later died. The incident, which the San Francisco Fire Department reported last week, happened on August 14, when a driver hit a pedestrian in the
Read moremyZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%. MyZoi wants to cut fees by more than half, starting with the five million low-income migrant
Read moreElon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. Musk accused the ADL, an organization that works to combat antisemitism, extremism and bigotry, of falsely accusing him and X of being antisemitic. “To clear our platform’s
Read moreMax Q: An inside look at Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition
In this issue: Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition followed by delays and desertion, news from SpaceX and more
Read moreChris’ Corner: Web Components Don’t Need You
Dave Rupert blogged a bunch of reasons about why you probably aren’t using them yet. Some of it is technological, and more of it is historical, marketing, and psychological reasons. Then Dave, a pretty avid Web Components follower and advocate, followed up with another surprise. Should you rewrite your app
Read moreOOP in Lua
Object-Oriented Programming in Lua using AnnotationsDespite being a scripting and dynamically typed language, Lua possesses enough flexibility to do object-oriented programming effectively, especially using the power of annotations. This primer explains how core OOP concepts can be implemented. I’m sure that understanding the why behind each line, will help you
Read moreBuilding Self-Guided Engineering Teams
with a focus on alignment, ownership, and trust.Having read the article on measuring developer productivity by McKinsey & Company as well as a few follow-ups, with the most in-depth one being the two-part response by Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck, I deep-dived into what’s behind the urge of measurement — and found out
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