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Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its program.

Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, who is now interim CEO, according to Grooms’…

The company reached profitability in 2023, however, more customers began asking for web and Android capabilities so they could share Copilot with family and friends.

The five-person firm is one of the few, if not the only, funds focused exclusively on strengthening opportunities between these two countries.

Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-streams to make proteins. In this case, it’s a soy protein alternative.

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. This week, we look at Griffin Bank getting its license…

By using cell-free technology, Tierra is able to cut down protein manufacturing from months to weeks and enable customers to order proteins online. 

For Fund II, Artemis intends to continue leading and co-leading investments and will target around 20 new companies.

The company went public in December with its first proof-of-concept coffee creamer that remains stable when added to hot coffee.

Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn’t have bank accounts.

The company launched its payments orchestration product in 2022 and provides over 300 payment methods with fraud-detection capabilities, one-click checkout and advanced smart routing technology.

Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising.

Venture capitalists were in Los Angeles this week for the Upfront Summit, an invite-only conference with celebrity sightings and plenty of talk on the future of the VC industry.

As part of the new fund, Inspired Capital wrote a manifesto that highlights how the venture capital firm thinks, what it believes in and what it is looking for.

A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and customer growth.

Zacua, which has a regional presence in San Francisco, Madrid, Mexico and Singapore, is targeting startups addressing sustainability, productivity and urbanization.

Darwin AI’s system that connects with a company’s customer relationship management tool and evaluates possible sales leads and escalates the ones, most likely to buy, to a human salesperson.

The co-founders of Israeli food tech startup Ingrediome say they are inventing better-tasting lab-grown protein that’s up to 10 times less expensive to produce.

Golden Ventures’ fifth fund targets seed-stage founders working across technologies, including AI, climate, blockchain and quantum.

The New York-based startup collects data via profile attributes specified by the brand in order to personalize the homepage, product description pages, emails and SMS. 

Zūm Rails manages the flow of money by verifying a customer’s identity, linking directly with bank accounts and facilitating payments via the method of the customer’s choosing.

Simetrik created the Simetrik Building Blocks, scalable and adaptable concepts based on no-code development and generative AI technologies.

Meati is another example of a tech company making layoffs that didn’t appear to be in trouble.

Bluestein Ventures targets consumer-facing technology across the food supply chain like health and wellness, proprietary foodtech, commerce and digital technology. 

OpenBorder provides e-commerce merchants with instant access to the $2 trillion cross-border market through automation of certain logistical needs. 

The company made advancements in its proprietary dairy seed system to leverage interactions between recombinant dairy casein and native plant proteins, with or without improved fatty acid profiles.

Atlas is developing a work benefits tool for global companies to manage their contractor benefits from one place.