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TC Sessions: Space 2020
Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Space
2020
Alexandra Ames
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Upstart and Wish price their debuts as the 2020 IPO cycle slows
Alex Wilhelm
StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B
Matt Burns
OpenSensors secures $4M for air-monitoring platform which allows offices
to be more Covid-safe
Mike Butcher
New Wave is a new European seed fund headed up by ex-Accel VC Pia
d’Iribarne
Steve O'Hear

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OpenSensors secures $4M for air-monitoring platform
which allows offices to be more Covid-safe
Mike Butcher
8:56 AM EST•December 16, 2020
Today, the acute asthma attack of primary school-aged girl in
February 2013 was ruled by a UK court to be due to air pollution. It is
thought to be the first ruling of its kind in the world. Only a...

Pinterest says it will adopt workplace culture


recommendations
Megan Rose Dickey
12:58 PM EST•December 16, 2020
Pinterest has committed to adopting the recommendations from its
special committee of the Board of Directors, the company wrote in a
blog post today. The committee formed earlier this year in June,...

Google Stadia is now available on iOS


Romain Dillet@romaindillet / 12:32 PM EST•December 16, 2020
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Image Credits: Google

A few weeks after announcing that iOS support was on the way,


Google’s cloud gaming service now supports the iPhone and iPad. As
expected, the company is using a web app to access the
service. Google  also says that you need to update to iOS 14.3, the
latest iOS update that was released earlier this week.
If you want to try it out with a free or paid Stadia account, you can head
over to stadia.google.com from your iOS device. Log in to your Google
account, add a shortcut to your home screen and open the web app.
After that, you can launch a game and start playing. Most games will
require a gamepad, so you might want to pair a gamepad with your
iPhone or iPad as well.
Apple’s iOS supports Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers using
Bluetooth as well as controllers specifically designed for iOS. You can
also play with the Stadia controller, but it’s optional. If you just want to
check your inventory quickly, Stadia on iOS also supports touch
controls.
Stadia works a bit like a console that runs in the cloud. You have to buy
games for the platform specifically and you can then stream them from
a data center near you. Recent additions include Cyberpunk 2077 and
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
While you don’t have to pay an additional subscription to play those
games, you can optionally become a Stadia Pro subscribers. In
addition to games you bought on the platform, it lets you access a
library of games and it unlocks 4K video. Stadia Pro costs $9.99 per
month.
In other Stadia news, earlier this week, Ubisoft announced that you
could subscribe to the company’s unlimited subscription service
Ubisoft+ and access games from Stadia. For now, it’s only available as
a beta in the U.S.
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Google Stadia is now available on iOS
Romain Dillet
12:32 PM EST•December 16, 2020
A few weeks after announcing that iOS support was on the way,
Google’s cloud gaming service now supports the iPhone and iPad. As
expected, the company is using a web app to access the service.
Goog...
The team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV is building a
new collaborative video tool
Anthony Ha
12:24 PM EST•December 16, 2020
Mike Folgner has had his share of success building video editing
tools, having sold Jumpcut.com to Yahoo and SnappyTV to Twitter.
But as he explained in a new Medium post, he still sees “unfi...

Bitcoin passes $20k and reaches all-time high


Romain Dillet
12:12 PM EST•December 16, 2020
After reaching a previous all-time high on November 30th, 2020 and
December 1st, 2020, bitcoin is now trading well above $20,000 and
has surpassed its previous peak price. Bitcoin’s value has rapid...
Amazon asks judge to set aside Microsoft’s $10B DoD
JEDI cloud contract win
Ron Miller
12:06 PM EST•December 16, 2020
It’s been more than two years since the Pentagon announced its $10
billion, decade long JEDI cloud contract, which was supposed to
provide a pathway to technological modernization for U.S. ar...

PepsiCo signs on to sponsor new founder-in-residence


program from M13
Jonathan Shieber
12:00 PM EST•December 16, 2020
The budding venture studio being built inside M13 has signed
PepsiCo as its first new corporate partner. Through the deal, PepsiCo
has agreed to bankroll the first founder-in-residence program from...
PrivacyGrader is a free tool to help companies get
smarter about data and disclosures
Anthony Ha
12:00 PM EST•December 16, 2020
As businesses face a complex and evolving privacy landscape, a new
tool called PrivacyGrader can help them make sure they’re doing the
right things. The tool was created by Tom Chavez and Viv...

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Meet the most important people in the space industry, across
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Discord will be able to screen share from iOS and Android


devices starting today
Greg Kumparak
12:00 PM EST•December 16, 2020
The super popular chat app Discord is getting a much-requested
feature starting today: mobile screen sharing. As the name suggests,
mobile screen sharing lets users capture and broadcast everything...

Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more


value from their data warehouses
Frederic Lardinois
12:00 PM EST•December 16, 2020
Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer
data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and
announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Af...

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AWS launches Amazon Location, a new mapping service
for developers
Frederic Lardinois
11:56 AM EST•December 16, 2020
AWS today announced the preview of Amazon Location, a new
service for developers who want to add location-based features to
their web-based and mobile applications. Based on mapping data
from Esri ...

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Dash Systems raises $8M for precision-airdrops-as-a-


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Devin Coldewey
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Now more than ever both the importance and limitations of the global
delivery infrastructure are on full display. But while Amazon and others
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TC Sessions: Space 2020


Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Space
2020
Alexandra Ames
11:23 AM EST•December 16, 2020
T-minus 3…2…1…liftoff! Day one of TC Sessions: Space 2020, our
first conference dedicated to space technology, early-stage startups
and the brilliant minds forging a new era of space exploration, i...

Qualcomm’s new chipset for wireless earbuds promises


improved noise cancellation, all-day battery life
Frederic Lardinois
11:00 AM EST•December 16, 2020
There are now so many wireless earbuds, it’s hard to keep track, but
one of the reasons why we’ve seen this explosion in new and existing
manufacturers entering this business is the ava...

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Upstart and Wish price their debuts as the 2020 IPO cycle
slows
Alex Wilhelm
10:47 AM EST•December 16, 2020
If the pattern of more relaxed debuts continues, this could be its start.

BigID keeps rolling with $70M Series D on $1B valuation


Ron Miller
10:02 AM EST•December 16, 2020
BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over
three rounds that started in January 2018. Today, that investment train
kept rolling as the company announced a $70 million Ser...
Major U.S. news publishers join the Coalition for App
Fairness advocacy group to fight the ‘Apple tax’
Sarah Perez
10:00 AM EST•December 16, 2020
A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for
App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing for increased
regulation over app stores and fair treatment for all developers. Th...

Bicycle Health, the virtual opioid use disorder therapy


service, will soon be available in 25 states
Jonathan Shieber
9:30 AM EST•December 16, 2020
The startup opioid use disorder therapy service Bicycle Health will
soon be available to patients in half the country, just three years after
its launch in 2017, according to founder Ankit Gupta. A...
ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets
$21.4 million from Amazon, Shell, and Bill Gates-backed
fund
Jonathan Shieber
9:24 AM EST•December 16, 2020
ZeroAvia, the company that’s on a mission to move the world to zero-
emission, hydrogen-fueled flight, has just received some corporate jet
fuel in the form of a new $21.4 million cash infusio...

Motional and Lyft target 2023 to deploy driverless


robotaxi services in major U.S. cities
Kirsten Korosec
9:23 AM EST•December 16, 2020
Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai $4 billion joint venture aimed at
commercializing autonomous vehicles, plans to launch in 2023 fully
driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities using the Lyft rid...
Zoomin raises $21M for a platform to make fragmented
product content troves easier to use
Ingrid Lunden
9:06 AM EST•December 16, 2020
Technical manuals and other product content may not be the first
things that come to mind when you are thinking of software. But if
you’ve ever found yourself in a pickle or just need some he...

Dry cleaning robotics startup Presso raises $1.6M as it


shifts focus to Hollywood
Brian Heater
9:00 AM EST•December 16, 2020
Robotic dry cleaning startup Presso today announced that it has
closed a $1.6 million pre-seed with investment from Pathbreaker, AME
Cloud Ventures, SOSV, 1517 Fund and YETI Capital. The Atlanta-
ba...
StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B
Matt Burns
8:00 AM EST•December 16, 2020
StockX today announced its Series E funding led by Tiger Global. The
$275 million funding round values the company at $2.8 billion at a
post-money valuation. The company intends to use the cash to ...

Hong Kong-based Pickupp makes logistics more


affordable for e-commerce sellers
Catherine Shu
3:59 AM EST•December 16, 2020
Logistics is one of the biggest challenges in e-commerce, especially
for smaller merchants. Pickupp helps them compete in the on-demand
economy with flexible, customizable delivery services. Based ...
MessageBird acquires real-time notifications and in-app
messaging platform Pusher for $35M
Steve O'Hear
3:00 AM EST•December 16, 2020
MessageBird, the omnichannel cloud communications platform
recently valued at $3 billion following a Series C round in October, has
acquired London-based real-time web technologies company
Pusher. ...

Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation


network in Europe and Africa
Ingrid Lunden
2:59 AM EST•December 16, 2020
In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across
Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to
move food and people around in cars, on scooters and (...
This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its
earliest engineer, then his business took off
Connie Loizos
9:06 PM EST•December 15, 2020
You might not know of XYZ Venture Capital, a four-year-old, San
Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of
Palantir are surely aware of it. XYZ says it has already backed 22
star...

ClickUp hits $1 billion valuation in $100M Series B raise


Lucas Matney
7:30 PM EST•December 15, 2020
Just six month after raising its first bit of outside funding, ClickUp has
closed $100 million in new funding and reached a $1 billion valuation,
a report in Bloomberg first reported. The company h...
Revolut launches mid-tier subscription plan
Romain Dillet
7:01 PM EST•December 15, 2020
Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new
mid-tier offering called Revolut Plus — it costs £2.99 per month. Like
N26 Smart and Monzo Plus, the new plan is a pandemic-pro...

Launch startup Astra’s rocket reaches space


Darrell Etherington
5:57 PM EST•December 15, 2020
Rocket launch startup Astra has joined an elite group of companies
that can say their vehicle has actually made it to orbital space —
earlier than expected. The company’s Rocket 3.2 tes...
Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M
Anthony Ha
3:45 PM EST•December 15, 2020
BoxCast, a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live
stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Co-
founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first
laun...
Extra Crunch
Startup valuations have recovered from summer lows
2020 is ending better than we might have hoped.
Alex Wilhelm
12:00 PM EST•December 15, 2020
TC Sessions: Space 2020
What to expect tomorrow at TC Sessions: Space 2020
Alexandra Ames
11:46 AM EST•December 15, 2020
Ready to explore an incredible range of space technology from the
comfort of your own home or office? TC Sessions: Space 2020 starts
tomorrow, December 16, and we’re here to point out just some of ...
Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase
alternative
Frederic Lardinois
11:00 AM EST•December 15, 2020
Supabase, a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-
source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today
announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round le...

Parsec raises $25M from a16z to power remote work and


cloud gaming
Anthony Ha
10:26 AM EST•December 15, 2020
Parsec, a startup that’s built streaming technology for both work and
play, is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding.
This brings Parsec’s total funding to $33 m...
Tive nabs $12M Series A to track shipment conditions in
real time
Ron Miller
9:47 AM EST•December 15, 2020
Tive, a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software
platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or
medicine to make sure it is stored under the proper conditions...

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