OnlyFans’ profitability proves the creator economy boom was real enough
Like many sectors, creator-focused startups had an easy time of attracting funding in 2020 and 2021. But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 million
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: BusRight’s $7M Series A deck
As soon as I saw the cover slide for BusRight, I knew I was looking at something really interesting. BusRight is a school-bus management platform that aims to improve efficiency and safety by, among other things, allowing caregivers to track bus locations. It also offers route-mapping and real-time GPS. Running
Read moreHow to Make Process Improvement Effective
Avoiding bureaucracyMaze. Image generated by MidJourneyProcess improvement is one of the main tools for Engineering Managers (EM) to manage their team. Delivering commercial software involves overlapping multiple systems, and acting on them effectively improves the team’s environment and results.However, processes can also easily hinder effectiveness. Too much focus on it can
Read moreMOVEit, the biggest hack of the year, by the numbers
The mass-exploitation of MOVEit Transfer software has rapidly cemented itself as the largest hack of the year so far. While the full impact of the attack will likely remain untold for months to come, there are now more than 1,000 known victims of the MOVEit breach, according to cybersecurity company
Read morePolestar 4 to feature Mobileye’s hands-off, eyes-off driving tech
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar wants to bring Mobileye’s Chauffeur, a hands-off, eyes-off autonomous driving technology to its Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe. The Polestar 4, which launched Friday in China and will hit global markets in 2024, comes standard with Mobileye’s SuperVision advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). Polestar plans
Read moreQase raises $7.2M to help companies manage their software tests
Qase, an Austin-based platform for managing software quality assurance testing and reporting, today announced that it raised $7.2 million in a Series A round led by Chrome Capital with participation from FinSight Ventures and S16VC. Nikita Fedorov, the CEO and founder, says that the proceeds will be put mostly toward
Read moreAlloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. The promise? Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The reinvention of banking is well underway, and we’re excited to
Read moreThe Overflow #192: Ask your data better questions
Welcome to ISSUE #192 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: sign up to get access to the new Stack Overflow search, future-proof proof that you’re from the future, and fall in love with hard
Read moreAll hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm
Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI. Thanks to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and Snap’s Snapchat can
Read moreZepto becomes India’s first 2023 unicorn with $200 million fresh funding
Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday, at a time when most other firms in the category have either died or are struggling. The funding makes Zepto the first Indian startup to attain the
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