Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.a...
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November
but the sector is finally stabilizing Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic : Despite a drop in VC funding, Europe on track for growth Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Funding for Europe's AI Startups ...
Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B
Having had the pleasure of seeing Waymo come … Lora Kolodny : Waymo has closed its series C funding round at $5.6 billion. The self-driving venture owned by Google parent Alphabet plans to use the fu...
Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending billions on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally across Google services in the past year
meaning, if temu and SHEIN turn off the money faucet tomorrow they'd still have a broad base of Chinese revs Rat King / @mikeisaac : last thought and then i will shut up: Blitzing FB with ads to estab...
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January
the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit card info to buy tw...
Filings for Q1 2022: Varo, the first US neobank to be granted a bank charter, had a high $84M burn rate and 98% of its income came from interchange and fees
What the Regulators Should (and Shouldn't) Do to Encourage Competition — Hey all, Jason here. Happy Memorial Day, for my American readers! Tweets: @akindolu , @mikulaja , @cplimon , @dgwbirch , @al...
Outschool, a marketplace for online classes, raises $45M Series B, says bookings grew 2,000%+ between Aug. 2019 and Aug. 2020 and it turned profitable this year
In the post about USV's initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago … Tweets: Adam Tzagournis / @adamtzag : Congrats to @outschool on their $45mm series B! This is the future of schooling, COVID or ...
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
but contexts are different! https://www.bloomberg.com/... Luca Hammer / @luca : About 20% of the Japanese population use Twitter. Compared to 22% in the USA, 12% in Brazil and 5% in Germany. (Japan an...
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company's total revenue — When Yu Sasamoto joined Twitter Inc. as head of Japan in 2014 … Tweets: @richbtig , @hamburger , @luca , and @selinawangtv Tw...
The Winklevoss' debut Virtual Commodity Association, a self-regulatory working group for crypto assets; members include Gemini, Bitstamp, bitFlyer USA, Bittrex
Matthew Leising / Bloomberg :