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Welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last-place week, I wrote about U.S. VC activity in Europe. Before that, I noted Chinese investor the actions of Africa. …

The Indian ticketing startup plans to further expand in Southeast Asia, focusing on out-of-home entertainment. Read more: techinasia.com

Welcome back to Max Q, our weekly look at what’s happening in space and room startup news. This week was a bit more quiet than usual coming off of the amazingly over-packed International Astronautical Congress, but there were still some big-hearted moves that promise a lot more action to come …

Did you miss the deadline to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019? Well don’t despair, founders. There’s more than one way to place your early-stage startup in front of thousands of influential technologists, investors and global media. Apply to be considered for our TC Top Picks program and …

It’s that time of year, Silicon Valley’s investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco to judge the latest summer batch of Y Combinator startups. TechCrunch was there, as well, and we were tapping away feverishly as co-founders pitched to woo investors. There are 197 …

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-led startup that the multi-entrepreneur founded in 2017, is working on technology that’s based around’ yarns’ which it says are available to embed in human psyches with much less potential impact to the surrounding psyche tissue vs. what’s currently used for today’s brain-computer interfaces.” Most people don’t …

Meme architects have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks like Instagram and Twitter that pay back none of their ad revenue to artists and comics. But 300 million monthly consumer meme and storytelling app Imgur wants to pioneer a …

Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest sell, to borrow up to some hundreds of dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it …

Causes grew to a jawdropping 186 million consumers as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and donors. Induces acquired Votizen to augment shallow clicktivism with a style to remind friends to election. But …

Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …