Blackrock, a minority investor in Byju’s, cuts startup valuation to $8.4 billion
Blackrock, a minority investor in Byju’s, has yet again cut the valuation of its holding in the Bengaluru-based startup, this time to about $8.4 billion, even as the most Indian valuable startup continues to raise capital at a better price. Blackrock cut the value of Byju’s share by 62% in
Read moreFirst they worked in tandem, now they’re in an e-bike patent suit
Grenoble-based eBikeLabs, a French startup that has been working on embedded software for electric bikes, is suing Cowboy for patent infringement and, more generally, copying eBikeLabs’ technology in its latest feature, AdaptivePower. Cowboy, the Belgian electric bike manufacturer, has refuted all the allegations and even said that eBikeLabs is running
Read moreOMERS Growth Equity leads Carrum Health’s $45M Series C to expand cancer care
Carrum Health, a value-based healthcare company enabling self-funded employers to buy specialist medical care, raised $45 million in Series C funding. When we last checked in with Carrum Health in 2021, the company had raised $40 million. Founded in 2014, the company provides surgical and cancer treatment guidance and coordination.
Read moreAmazon is testing dine-in payments in India
After shutting down its food delivery business last year, Amazon India is now experimenting with dine-in payments. The company has initiated a limited introduction of bill payments at restaurants using Amazon Pay. The facility is currently active in select areas of Bengaluru with a limited set of restaurants. Users can
Read moreThis product could help build a more equitable workplace (Ep. 575)
Today’s guest is Ilit Raz, founder and CEO of Joonku, which aims to build a more equitable workplace by automating the recruitment of diverse talent from underrepresented communities. Episode notes: Joonku is an automated diversity recruiting layer named for Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the
Read moreA popular Android app began secretly spying on its users months after it was listed on Google Play
A cybersecurity firm says a popular Android screen recording app that racked up tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store subsequently began spying on its users, including by stealing microphone recordings and other documents from the user’s phone. Research by ESET found that the Android app, “iRecorder —
Read moreMax Q: Galactic
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Happy Memorial Day everyone. In this issue: Astranis’ novel approach to GEO satellites Virgin Galactic’s return to the skies News from SpaceX, and more Astranis’ novel approach to internet satellites is starting to pay off Astranis, a satellite internet startup based in San
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Read moreAdventures in Plotly: Cohort Charts
Convert your Salesforce data to retention insightsPhoto by Campaign Creators on UnsplashThe first four articles I published focused on the basic charts at your disposal that make up the vast majority of data viz use cases:PieHistogramScatterBarFor this article, I’d like to introduce a more complex visualization, the cohort chart. A cohort chart
Read moreWhy Good Engineers Leave Good Companies
How to retain your engineering MVPsGenerated by DALL-E 2Companies incur substantial costs to attract and vet engineering talent, and engineers expend great effort preparing for the interview process when looking for a new job. Given the pain of the matchmaking process between employer and employee, why would good engineers ever leave
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