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One can only imagine what it was like to work at Uber in the years leading up to Susan Fowlerinfamous blog post. Many of the companyleaders were said to be overly competitive, sexist and inappropriate — &brilliant jerks,& as Arianna Huffington once said, — and its over-arching &move fast and break

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JFrog wants to change the way we deal with software updates. Instead of large numbered updates you have to manually download, it sees a future of continuous delivery where software is delivered as binaries and updated in the background. Investors must like that vision very much because they showered the company with a $165 million Series D

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Startup Battlefield is returning to Africa this December. TechCrunch will be hitting Lagos, Nigeria, bringing with it our Battlefield competition and a dayworth of panel discussions, focused on topics facing the citystartup scene.

Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa

Iyin &E& Aboyeji

We&ve already announced a pair of speakers for the event and and

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Nearly a year after German fintech startup N26 announced that it would launch its service in the U.K., the company is launching in the U.K. N26 is already quite popular in the Eurozone, with more than 1.5 million customers. In this new market, it will face tough competition from existing players, such as Revolut, Monzo, Starling and many others.

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KZen, a company run by former TC editor Ouriel Ohayon, has raised $4 million in seed to build a &better wallet,& obviously the elusive Holy Grail in the crypto world.

Benson Oak Ventures, Samsung Next, Elron Ventures invested.

Ohayon, who has worked at Internet Lab and founded TechCrunch France and Appsfire, wanted to create an

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Talkdesk, the provider of cloud-based contact center software, has raised $100 million in new funding from Viking Global Investors, a Connecticut-based hedge fund, and existing investor DFJ.

The round values the company at north of $1 billion, Talkdesk co-founder and chief executive officer Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch, but he declined to

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