Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, the women-led SPAC in charge of the deal, called Swvl ‘a disruptive platform that solves complex challenges and empowers underserved populations.’
The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing, and more
Excerpts from our Twitter Spaces chat with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich on the growth marketing industry, when to hire a marketer and when a startup should consider outsourcing.
Score a free month of Extra Crunch with your TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 pass
Whether you’re just starting to build your SaaS empire or you’re further along in your journey, you don’t want to miss TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 on October 27. This day-long virtual event, dedicated to the increasingly sophisticated world of software-as-a-service, features some of the sector’s biggest names, plenty of actionable advice and ample opportunity to […]
Drivers for Elon Musk’s Loop get a script about their ‘great leader’
Ask ‘Do you like working for him?’ and you’ll get a response that could have come straight from North Korea: ‘Yup, he’s a great leader! He motivates us to do great work.’
Squire, a Barbershop tech platform, triples its valuation (again) with Tiger Global
When co-founders Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant first began barbershop tech platform Squire in 2016, they leaned in quite literally: the duo bought a barbershop in Chelsea, New York to see first-hand how the business worked. For one year, the co-founders religiously worked at the shop, now owned by a larger barbershop chain, handling every […]
BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to Disrupt
It’s hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. Developed in record time in partnership with Pfizer, thanks to an existing partnership to work on immunization for the common flu, BioNTech’s mRNA inoculation is […]
Fisker invests in EV charging network Allego’s SPAC merger
Fisker is investing $10 million in private-investment-in-public equity (PIPE) funding for the merger of Allego and special purpose acquisition company Spartan Acquisition Corp III.
Shopify’s Q2 results beat estimates as e-commerce shines
Like Microsoft and Apple in the wake of their after-hours earnings reports, Shopify shares are having a muted reaction to the better-than-expected results.
Algramo aims to cut plastic waste with a reusable container ecosystem and $8.5M A round
Single-use plastic containers make up a huge amount of the world’s waste, but so far no one has come up with a good way to replace them that’s also easy for consumers and cost-effective. Algramo may have cracked this nut with a combination of reusable containers and distribution points that both makes and saves money, […]
48-hour countdown to early bird savings on passes to TC Disrupt 2021
What’s big enough, bold enough and influential enough to inspire more than 10,000 people around the world to carve out three days from their intensely busy schedules? If you said TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, the grand matriarch of startup tech conferences, well friend, you’d be right on the money. And speaking of money, you have just […]