2020 – Page 11

Extra Crunch membership now available to readers in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark

We’re excited to announce that Extra Crunch memberships are now available in several Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. For a full list of supported countries, head here. Sign…

lecrab 15 December 2020

eSports

Enterprise M3 invests £228k towards Basingstoke esports facility

Enterprise M3 (EM3), an enterprise partnership that combines private- and public-sector companies, has invested in an esports training facility at Queen Mary’s College in Basingstoke. EM3 has committed to investing…

lecrab 15 December 2020

Technology News

Data privacy startup eXate raises £2.3M Seed led by Outward VC

Accessing and sharing data is a complicated issue for large businesses, and doing this in a secure, compliant way is a problem for many. eXate, a London-based data software firm…

lecrab 15 December 2020

Technology News

Taxdoo, the tax compliance platform for cross-border e-commerce, raises $21M Series A

Taxdoo, a startup that has built what it calls an “automated platform for financial compliance” aimed at cross-border e-commerce companies, has raised $21 million in new funding. Leading the Series…

lecrab 15 December 2020

Technology News

Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir sees space and frontier tech going mainstream right now

Deena Shakir joined Lux Capital as a partner last year after spending seven years with Google, the last of them with GV, Google’s venture unit. While Shakir seems to fit…

lecrab 15 December 2020

eSports

Major structural changes made to LCS 2021, new tournament introduced

The North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), one of Riot Games’ top-tier franchise leagues in LoL esports, has made some major adjustments to the season’s format. Credit: Riot Games…

lecrab 14 December 2020

Technology News

Klima publicly launches its consumer-focused carbon offset app

Andreas Pursian, Markus Gilles and Jonas Brandau, the three co-founders of Klima, an app focused on helping consumers understand and offset their carbon emissions, first found entrepreneurial success at Hyper.…

lecrab 14 December 2020

Technology News

Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on…

lecrab 14 December 2020

Blockchain

JP Morgan completes successful blockchain-based repo transaction

JP Morgan has announced a successful blockchain-based repo transaction – with the potential to reduce such payments to hours rather than days. The intraday repo transaction, between JP Morgan’s broker…

lecrab 14 December 2020

eSports

PSG Esports launches online training academy

PSG Esports, the esports arm of the French football club Paris Saint-Germain, has launched an online training programme called Paris Saint-Germain Academy Esports. For €20 (£18) per hour, esports hopefuls can receive…

lecrab 14 December 2020