Daily Crunch: Snapchat adds Spotlight
Snapchat introduces a TikTok-style feed, Amazon Echo Buds add physical fitness tracking and Vettery acquires Hired. This is your Daily Crunch for November 23, 2020.
The huge story: Snapchat includes Spotlight
Beginning today, users will be able to send their Snaps to the brand-new Spotlight feed. Audiences will be able to send out direct messages to developers with public profiles (Spotlight will also include anonymous content from personal accounts), however there will be no public commentary on these videos.
Snapchat has presented a devoted feed where users can view short, amusing videos– quite similar to TikTok. This follows the app likewise added TikTok-like music functions last month.
To motivate developers to publish to Spotlight, Snapchat says it will be distributing more than $1 million every day who produce the top videos on Spotlight.
The tech giants
Uber refused authorization to dismiss 11 personnel at its EMEA HQ— The Dutch Employee Insurance Agency has actually declined to offer Uber authorization to dismiss 11 individuals at the company’s EMEA head office.
Amazon’s Echo Buds get brand-new physical fitness tracking features— Say “Alexa, start my exercise” with the buds in, and they’ll start logging actions, calories, range, rate and period of runs.
Facebook introduces ‘Drives,’ a US-only function for collecting food, clothes and other needs for people in requirement— The function is being made offered through Facebook’s existing Community Help hub.
Start-ups, funding and venture capital
Video mentoring platform Superpeer raises $8M and releases paid channels— The Superpeer platform allows specialists to promote, schedule and charge for individually video calls with anybody who may desire to ask for their recommendations.
Resilience raises over $800M to change pharmaceutical production in response to COVID-19— The business will invest greatly in establishing new production innovations throughout cell and gene therapies, viral vectors, vaccines and proteins.
Relativity Space raises $500M as it sets sights on the industrialization of Mars— LA-based rocket startup Relativity had a huge 2020, finishing work on a brand-new 120,000-square-foot manufacturing center in Long Beach.
Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch
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Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage start-ups?— In September, homegrown startups raised a record $843 million.
Seven things we simply learnt more about Sequoia’s European growth plans— Steve O’Hear interviews Luciana Lixandru and Matt Miller about the company’s strategies.
Everything else
Vettery obtains Hired to produce a ‘unified’ job search platform— Vettery CEO Josh Brenner stated the two platforms are mostly complementary.
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