The numbers that couldn’t be ignored

Please return to this page on or after February 27 to read an excerpt adapted from The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kate Zernike. The book will go on sale on February 28, and the publisher has requested that we wait until […]

Berlin-based Pliant, which offers digital corporate credit card management and accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment (Omar Faridi/Crowdfund Insider)

Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider:Berlin-based Pliant, which offers digital corporate credit card management and accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment  —  Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022.  —  While entering seven additional European markets, it also …

The Download: crime app concerns, and helpful AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How Citizen is trying to remake itself by recruiting elderly Asians Members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community in the US are living through a period of […]

Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst  —  InDrive, the second-most downloaded ride-hailing app in the world, raised $150 million using an unusual debt instrument that links repayment to the company’s […]