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Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025

Genki Robotics, a humanoid robotics company co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is valued at about $1 billion following its recent Series A, Axios Pro has learned.

Sensor Tower: in July, Rapido had nearly 50M MAUs on Android in India, above Uber's 30M; Rapido has a nearly 30% share in four-wheeler cabs and Uber has ~50%

much of it from Ola, but Uber is starting to feel the heat. [image] Pranav Mukul / @pranavmukul : 🚕Important today for @ETtech: When Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called Rapido the “tougher competition i...

Seattle-based QA Wolf, which helps companies automate QA testing for apps, raised a $36M Series B and opens a waitlist for Android and iOS test automation

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :

Source: Apple's India revenue rose ~33% YoY to almost $8B from March 2023 to March 2024, and up from $4.1B the year before; pricey iPhones were 50%+ of sales

- Sales jump shows Apple is succeeding in winning users in India  — Apple wants to challenge Android's dominance in the country

Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023

- The Android app of Robinhood's crypto wallet has officially launched.  — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023.

Analysis: Apple's key suppliers in Taiwan saw revenue fall 16.4% YoY to ~$38.7B in September, despite the launch of new iPhones and several Android smartphones

Bloomberg :

Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in September from the $20/month ChatGPT+ plan, up from $3.81M in August and $2.74M in July

Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April 2023, up 606% from March, when its Android app launched, in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads

Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers

TechCrunch :

Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January 2022, and ~9% of its active Android installs opened the app every day in Q3