Month: January 2023

Project Eaden’s fiber technology poised to spin threads into whole cuts of ‘meat’

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Project Eaden, a Berlin-based food technology company, believes it has cracked the code for producing whole cuts of plant-based meat alternatives using a proprietary fiber spinning technology. Investors think so too, adding €2.1 million (about $2.3 million) of additional funding to a previous seed round so that Project Eaden can continue development and accelerate the … Read more

The app economy slowed for the first time in 2022, with consumer spend down 2% to $167 billion

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The app ecosystem’s nonstop growth finally slipped this past year. An annual review of the app economy by mobile analytics firm data.ai (previously App Annie) found that consumer spending on mobile apps declined for the first time in 2022 after seeing 19% year-over-year growth the year prior. Consumer spending dropped by 2% in 2022, the … Read more

Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO

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Carta, the 10-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who the company says was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on Friday, December 23. In its lawsuit, Carta is suing Talton for damages, citing “his wrongful and illegal … Read more

Peppy secures a $45M Series B to expand its B2B2C health services platform to the US

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There are some mega-trends playing out across developed-world workforces that startups are picking up on. There’s the digitisation of healthcare, the ‘platforming’ of employee services, and the macro effects of older employees, combined with the cost of living crisis for new parents. Founded in London in 2018, Peppy offer services around menopause, fertility, pregnancy and … Read more

Twitter launches its Blue subscription service in Japan

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After launching Elon Musk’s version of the Twitter Blue subscription service last month in five countries, the company has expanded the paid plan to users in Japan. Both the old (launched in 2021) and revamped Twitter Blue subscriptions were available in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Twitter noted on its support … Read more