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		<title>What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo&#8217;s sweeping layoffs</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/25/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Heim]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bending Spoons to acquire AOL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aisha Malik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wednesday's news marks a new chapter for AOL, which was once one of the most recognized brands on the internet, known for its email service and "You've Got Mail" notification. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OnlyFans’s Ami Gan and Keily Blair join us at Disrupt for a SFW fireside chat</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/26/onlyfanss-ami-gan-and-keily-blair-join-us-at-disrupt-for-an-sfw-fireside-chat/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been a tumultuous year for OnlyFans, the popular subscription-based social media platform best known for hosting explicit content and offering an online safe haven to the sex workers who create it. In August 2021, the company launched OFTV, a streaming platform featuring safe-for-work content, a move widely seen as an attempt to attract investors [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yahoo appoints six new board members, including Jessica Alba</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Silberling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yahoo announced six new members of its board of directors today, about a year after the internet brand was acquired by private equity firm Apollo for $5 billion [Disclosure: TechCrunch is part of Yahoo]. The new appointees include Jessica Alba, actress and founder of The Honest Company; Aryeh Bourkoff, founder and CEO of the independent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Revenue-based financing platform Bloom secures $377M Series A led by Credo and Fortress</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/26/revenue-based-financing-platform-bloom-secures-376m-series-a-led-by-credo-and-fortress/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Butcher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 07:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations, European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. U.K.-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Register now for TechCrunch Live&#8217;s event in Columbus, Ohio!</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/13/register-now-for-techcrunch-lives-event-in-columbus-ohio/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch Live is thrilled to shine the spotlight on Columbus, Ohio. On June 1, our crew is virtually heading to Columbus to explore the region&#8217;s growing startup ecosystem. We have a speaker lineup that represents a broad swath of the community, including the CEO of Olive and a Drive Capital founding partner. There&#8217;s a panel [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tofino Capital reaches first close of $10M fund to back startups in frontier markets</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/tofino-capital-reaches-first-close-of-10m-fund-to-back-startups-in-frontier-markets/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tage Kene-Okafor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tofino Capital, a venture capital firm targeting early-stage startups in emerging markets, has launched its $10 million fund. It is announcing the first close of this fund at $5 million and hopes to achieve a final close nine months from now.   The firm, founded by Eliot Pence and Aubrey Hruby, wants to back startups in Africa, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PalmPay raised $100M Series A last August, claims to have 5 million users</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/03/palmpay-raised-100m-series-a-last-august-claims-to-have-5-million-users/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tage Kene-Okafor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100 million Series A round last year. TechCrunch spotted this news in Partech Africa’s latest end-of-year report on venture capital investments in Africa. Further checks in Crunchbase and Tracxn &#8212; platforms that track funding rounds in startups and private companies globally &#8212; reveal that the company closed the round [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mayfair Equity Partners aquires UK adtech platform LoopMe for $120M</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/mayfair-equity-partners-aquires-uk-adtech-platform-loopme-for-120m/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Butcher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Founded back in 2012, the LoopMe adtech/martech startup focused on brand-based mobile advertising, using AI to deliver measurable outcomes for its users. At its height, it had raised $25 million equity and $10 million of venture debt (which was fully paid off before signing). But there’s a reason for using the past tense &#8212; Mayfair [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Castiron serves up a $6M seed round to support &#8216;food artisans&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/18/castiron-serves-up-a-6m-seed-round-to-support-food-artisans/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Silberling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The pandemic hasn&#8217;t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How startups are turning data into software gold</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/how-startups-are-turning-data-into-software-gold/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places. But leveraging that data into something useful is another challenge altogether. The analogy that data is this era&#8217;s oil is at best half-baked. Oil takes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Apollo completes its $5B acquisition of Verizon Media, now known as Yahoo</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apollo-completes-its-5b-acquisition-of-verizon-media-now-known-as-yahoo/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Private equity firm Apollo Global Management this morning announced that it has completed its acquisition of Yahoo (formerly known as Verizon Media Group, itself formerly known as Oath) from Verizon. The deal is worth $5 billion, with $4.25 billion in cash, plus preferred interests of $750 million. Verizon will be retaining 10% of the newly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AOL founder Steve Case, involved early in Section 230, says it&#8217;s time to change it</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/29/aol-founder-steve-case-involved-early-in-section-230-says-its-time-to-change-it/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connie Loizos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 06:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AOL founder Steve Case was there in Dulles, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., when in 1996 the Communications Decency Act was passed as part of a major overhaul of U.S. telecommunications laws that President Bill Clinton signed into law. Soon after, in its first test, a provision of that act which states that, “[n]o [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Steve Case and Clara Sieg on how the COVID-19 crisis differs from the dot-com bust</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/22/steve-case-and-clara-sieg-on-how-the-covid-19-crisis-differs-from-the-dot-com-bust/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Burns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve Case and Clara Sieg of Revolution recently spoke on TechCrunch&#8217;s new series, Extra Crunch Live. Throughout the hour-long chat, we touched on numerous subjects, including how diverse founders can take advantage during this downturn and how remote work may lead to growth outside Silicon Valley. The two have a unique vantage point, with Steve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extra Crunch Live: Discuss work and raising cash in a downturn with Revolution&#8217;s Steve Case and Clara Sieg right now</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/extra-crunch-live-discuss-work-and-raising-cash-in-a-downturn-with-revolutions-steve-case-and-clara-sieg-at-12pm-pt-3pm-et/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 15:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, we’re chatting with Steve Case and Clara Sieg of Revolution as part of our new interview series, Extra Crunch Live. Topping our agenda, we will talk about jobs — in Silicon Valley, on the coasts and in the heartland. The technology sector is suffering through a contraction caused by the COVID-19 global health [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/couchbase-raises-105m-series-g-funding-round/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Couchbase, the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round &#8220;to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.&#8221; The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ChromaCode&#8217;s tech to boost COVID-19 testing gets Bill Gates&#8217;s backing</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/19/chromacodes-tech-to-boost-covid-19-testing-gets-bill-gates-backing/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Shieber]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boasting a technology that can dramatically increase the capacity of existing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing used to identify people infected with COVID-19 and other illnesses, ChromaCode has attracted new funding from Bill Gates-backed Adjuvant Capital.  &#8220;We want a good solution for a resource-limited environment,&#8221; says ChromaCode founder and executive chairman Alex Dickinson, a serial entrepreneur [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extra Crunch Live: Join Precursor&#8217;s Charles Hudson for a Q&#038;A this Thursday</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/20/extra-crunch-live-join-precursors-charles-hudson-for-a-qa-this-thursday/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Wilhelm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new Extra Crunch Live series is taking flight this week. Today we&#8217;re talking to Cowboy Ventures&#8217; Aileen Lee and Ted Wang. This Thursday we&#8217;re keeping the parade of well-known investors coming, when Charles Hudson will join Natasha Mascarenhas and I for a deep-dive into all things pre-seed and seed. Extra Crunch Live Episode 2: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Utah tech magnates create new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund to boost startups in the state</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/utah-tech-magnates-create-new-silicon-slopes-venture-fund-to-boost-startups-in-the-state/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those looking outside of Silicon Valley as a potential hub for their startup might want to take a gander at Utah, at least that&#8217;s the kind of trend the new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund hopes to create. The newly formed fund, put together by Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith, Omniture and Domo founder Josh James and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St. Louis-based Summersalt raises $17.3 million for its direct-to-consumer clothing line</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/20/st-louis-based-summersalt-raises-17-3-million-for-its-direct-to-consumer-clothing-line/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Shieber]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Midwest may not be known as the fashion capital of the world (or even the U.S.), but its place in the consumer retail firmament is secure through L Brands and its Victoria&#8217;s Secret and Bath &#38; Body Works subsidiaries. Now, venture investors are investing $17.3 million to establish another tent-pole clothing brand in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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