Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy

Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a self-proclaimed “merchant of record,” Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Legal tech, VC brawls and saying no to big offers

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Startups Weekly in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week we are talking about Wiz’s bold decision, VC’s public feud, legal tech’s new capital and a16z’s close call. Let’s go! Most interesting startup stories [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc’teryx to bring  ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market

Skip exited stealth this week to announce a partnership with outdoor clothing specialist Arc’teryx. The deal is the first to bring Skip’s MO/GO technology to market: “powered pants” that utilize a soft exoskeleton technology, developed in-house at Alphabet’s X Labs moonshot factory. MO/GO, short for “mountain goat,” is a hybrid soft/rigid exoskeleton system designed to [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Alphabet is clearly looking to buy, so who’s selling, and why did Wiz say no?

Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with some significant fundraises, a potentially massive acquisition falling apart and looking at what happens when a fintech company suddenly stops serving certain customers. To kick things off, Mary Ann Azevedo walked everyone through Clio’s huge [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2

Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name registrations, a drop of 1.8 million over the quarter. The domain base is down 2.2% [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Energy tech startup Greenely grabs €8M to reach more households and support Europe’s energy transition

The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Greenely* has just spotted one. It’s closing an €8 million Series A funding round to expand its energy management platform into neighbouring Nordic countries (so around $8.7M at current exchange rates). The energy tech startup is serving around [...]

By |July 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|

DomainSherpa Review – July 25, 2024 – Politics as Usual

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 13:10 mark), where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss the reasons behind their evaluations. Today's domains are HorsesForSale.com, LumberMill.com, and Spin.la;• They get [...]

By |July 25th, 2024|Uncategorized|