Better Ventures closes $21 million fund to back the next Tesla or Patagonia

Oakland-based venture capital firm Better Venturesrecently closed its second fund at $21 million according to cofounder and managing director Wes Selke. The firm was originally founded as an accelerator called Hub Ventures to...

Nominations now open for The Europas European Tech Startup Awards 2017

Nominations are now open for The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and one-day conference. The Europas will be held on 13 June 2017, in London at Here East, and are officially part...

Travis Kalanick: Uber is becoming ‘a robotics company’

CEO of the online transportation network company Uber, Travis Kalanick, talks at the internet conference NOAH in Berlin, 8 June 2016.Image: Britta Pedersen/picture-alliance/dpa/AP ImagesSAN FRANCISCO In case anyone still had doubts that Uber sees...

Ezetap, racing against bigger rivals like Paytm, just raised $16 million in fresh funding

There are more than 1 billion cellphone users in India, which abruptly went cashless last November, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that millions of high-denomination currency notes would no longer be legal tender....

Guess where Spectacles are going on sale next and win some TechCrunch swag

Were four days into the launch of Snapchat Spectacles and the hypehas shown no signs of letting up. Snapchat has deployed its vending machine Bot in two different locations so far Venice...

SelfScore grants access to credit for students without Social Security numbers

SelfScore will provide access to credit to international students without social security numbers.Image: ShutterstockSelfScore launched its first product last summer with relatively little fanfare: a credit card for international students. On Tuesday, it launched...