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Friday, March 11, 2022 By Alex Wilhelm

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 11, 2022! Oh boy was that a week. It was full and busy and, now, finally, over. We have your full news digest below, but stay hype about TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility, because it's looking increasingly lit. – Alex

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Startups and VC

  • Sorenson Ventures raises $150M fund: The Utah-based firm has made it to a second fund, raising a new vehicle that is 50% larger than its last. TechCrunch writes that Sorenson backed some 30 enterprise startups with its first capital pool. Guess what it's investing in this time around? Yep, more of the same.
  • Today in good startup names: What do you think 100ms does? Something involving speed? Yep! 100ms works with live video applications, where speed – latency, really – matters a lot. And the company just raised a Series A shortly after announcing its seed round.
  • Stripe hearts crypto: While not Stripe's first rodeo with crypto, this latest news bump appears more substantial than those it put out in the past. Stripe, a public company in all but name, has built out a way for its customers to "buy and store crypto tokens, cash out, trade NFTs and handle compliance workflows like Know Your Customer."
  • Stripe, go public!
  • Byju Raveendran puts $400M of Byju Raveendran's cash into Byju's, the startup founded by Byju Raveendran: The infusion was part of an $800 million round, meaning that the well-known Indian edtech company has oodles of cash to play with. TechCrunch reports that the company is now worth some $22 billion, a simply staggering sum.
  • Byju's, go public!

And speaking of going public, the Equity crew has a fun episode out today that includes notes on life after SPACs for startups that considered the method of going public but ended up saying hell naw.

6 technologists discuss how no-code tools are changing software development

We’ve reported on the rise of no-code/low-code software for years, but since the pandemic began, they've taken on new importance.

Rapid digital transitions are taking place in an era where employees have become adept at working remotely and software developers are in higher demand than ever.

We interviewed six technologists to learn more about the impacts of no-code/low-code tools, minimizing technical debt and related topics:

  • Patrick Jean, CTO, OutSystems
  • Deb Gildersleeve, CIO, Quickbase
  • Zoe Clelland, vice president of product and experience, Nintex
  • Bruno Vieira Costa, founder and CEO, Abstra
  • David Hsu, founder and CEO, Retool
  • Trisha Kothari, co-founder and CEO, Unit21

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