Riding a scooter in Paris will soon feel incredibly… slow. The City of Paris has announced that scooter sharing services should restrict the maximum top speed to 10km/h (that’s 6.2mph).

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Worldwide, over 1.3 trillion eggs are produced annually, and Perfeggt co-founders believe this market is largely untapped and has room to grow with plant-based alternatives.

Perfeggt brings in first capital to shell out plant-based egg alternative

In August 2020, two FBI agents were standing on my doorstep, unannounced, wanting to ask me questions about a TechCrunch story we had published the year before. The story was about how a hacker took thousands of documents, including visas and diplomatic passports, from a server at Mexico’s Embassy in Guatemala.

On legal demands and press freedoms

Blume Ventures said on Wednesday it has raised $105 million in the first close of its fourth fund, less than two years after finalizing its previous fund, as investment activity intensifies in the world’s second largest internet market.

India’s Blume Ventures raises $105 million in the first close of its fourth fund

The Polestar Precept sedan — the concept vehicle turned production project — has a new name and an official launch date.

Polestar is bringing its electric Precept sedan to market in 2024 with a new name

A number of Roku customers are experiencing problems with their Roku TVs following the Roku OS 10.5 update.

Roku customers report streaming issues after 10.5 update

French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bitpanda for this feature.

Lydia adds stock and crypto trading to its payment app

Mmhmm has perhaps the noisiest take on the future of video-conferencing: virtual meetings will be fun, flexible, and, as shown by its most recent acquisition, emotive.

Mmhmm eats Macro

Given its product market fit in real estate, Zuma now aims to implement its business model into other industries with sales teams, like healthcare, automotive, insurance, education and fashion.

Zuma takes in fresh capital to convert your next apartment tenant lead into a contract

Biliti Electric, a startup founded less than a year ago, wants its electric tuk tuks to become a common sight in densely packed cities in the United States.

Biliti bets US market is primed for electric tuk tuk deliveries

Carro enables brand partnerships to sell each other’s products without having to purchase inventory or manage logistics and returns.

Cross-selling startup Carro secures $20M to connect brands with each other, influencers

Facebook, errr Meta, showed off a new prototype haptic feedback glove yesterday which they detailed could eventually bring a new generation of AR/VR users closer to digital content than they’ve ever been.

VR glove startup says Meta’s recently unveiled prototype is ‘substantively identical’ to their own device

QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computer developer, is coming out of stealth mode today with $17 million in funding from Rakuten, Day One Ventures and Frontiers Capital. Angel investors Serguei Beloussov and Paul Maritz also joined in the round. 

QuEra Computing emerges from stealth with $17M to launch quantum device

Lambda School, a buzzy coding bootcamp that has landed over $122 million in known venture capital to date, is rebranding to Bloom Institute of Technology, according to a blog post from CEO Austen Allred. The company is also updating its tuition payment options to introduce an outcomes-based loan.

Lambda School shakes off its brand with new name

No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done, and startups building these tools are raising a lot of money as they see a surge of business.

EasySend raises $55.5M for a no-code platform to build online interactions with customers

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