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Lemonade, the insurance platform based out of NYC, has filed a lawsuit against German company ONE Insurance, its parent company wefox, and founder Julian Teicke.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of NY, alleges that wefox reverse engineered Lemonade to create ONE, infringing Lemonade’s intellectual property, v
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Write comment (97 Comments)About one year ago, a note from a CEO thanking his employee for using sick days to take care of her mental health went viral. It was a reminder to Alyson Friedensohn of what she wants to accomplish with Modern Health, the emotional health benefits startup she founded last year with neuroscientist Erica Johnson.
“We want that to be normal. We want t
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Read more: YC alum Modern Health, a startup focused on emotional wellbeing, gets $2.26M seed funding
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While brand safety and fraud prevention have been big topics in the online ad industry over the past couple years, Cheq CEO Guy Tytunovich argued that “first generation solutions for ad verification” aren’t good enough.
The problem, Tytunovich said, is that existing products use sampling to alert advertisers to issues “after the fact.” Compare this
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Read more: Cheq raises $5M for a proactive, AI-driven approach to safe ad placement
Write comment (100 Comments)Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week was something of a first for the crew, twice. First, we had two guests on the show, and, also, we only made it through two and a half topics. The former is good, the latter is, well, we’ll see.
So, this week Matth
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Read more: Scooters go mad, Opendoor wants to buy your house, and Meituan’s IPO
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Security companies Fortinet and Kromtech found seventeen tainted Docker containers that were essentially downloadable images containing programs that had been designed to mine cryptocurrencies. Further investigation found that they had been downloaded 5 million times, suggesting that hackers were able to inject commands into insecure containers to
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Read more: Tainted, crypto-mining containers pulled from Docker Hub
Write comment (97 Comments)Step aside, Allbirds. Atoms come in quarter-sizes you can mix-and-match. Emerging from stealth today in a TechCrunch exclusive, this shoe startup’s obsession with satisfaction allowed it to replace my Nikes. I’ve spent the last two months wearing Atoms every day. They’re the first sneaker classy-looking enough for semi-formal occasions, but that I
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Read more: Meet Atoms, the minimalist startup shoes you’ll actually wear
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