Month: June 2017
Announcing the Judges for the Seattle Meetup + Pitch Off
TechCrunch is headed to Seattle this Thursday for the annual Meetup + Pitch Off. And we are ready to announce our esteemed judges. The pitch-off will consist of 10 startup companies presenting for 60 seconds on stage in front of TechCrunch Editors and tier 1 investors from the Pacific Northwest. The winning team will get […]
Creditors agree terms to disburse Greece’s 8.5bn bailout funds
EU and IMF thrash out deal following months of disagreements, with funds to be released in July once European parliaments ratify the deal. For the best part of a decade, Greece has wanted to become a normal country, and late on Thursday it appeared to begin that process, after creditors agreed to disburse 8.5bn (7.4bn) […]
Satellite Eye on Earth: May 2017 in pictures
Vesuvius in Italy and volcanoes in northern Tanzania, lights going out in Syria, and flooding in Sri Lanka are among images captured by Nasa and the ESA this month. A vertical view of Vesuvius in southern Italy, taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station. The Proxima mission […]
Election 2017: Pound falls sharply but UK shares rise – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters The pound has fallen sharply after the UK election resulted in a hung parliament. Sterling’s value had dropped overnight, and as trading began in London it slipped further, standing 2.3% lower at just below $1.27, with markets worried about heightened political uncertainty. Against the euro, the pound was down 2% at 1.1344. […]
Colombian grocery delivery app Mercadoni raises $6.2M
Mercadoni, a grocery delivery app and service operating in Colombia, Argentina and Mexico, has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding, one of the largest Series A rounds in the region. The startup lets you order groceries for delivery, in a promised turn-around of under an hour. It already claims 250,000 users and ready for […]