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By Christine Hall and Haje Jan Kamps

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 13, 2022! Tomorrow, we are giddy with excitement to be attending Early Stage (if you're coming, don't forget to submit your pitch deck!). If you didn't get your tix yet, it's still possible to snag a last-minute ticket to join the fun in San Francisco.

On Equity today, the podcast crew argues that VC needs crypto a lot more than the other way around, so give that a listen as well!

¡Hasta mañana! – Christine and Haje

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  • Duking it out over corporate spend management: The competition to help large enterprises be more efficient with their spending just gained another fighter. Brex, which initially focused on startups with its corporate card, is now getting into software. It's already secured DoorDash as a customer, so the leap into the corporate spend pool was more of a cannonball than a dipping a toe. Ironically, on the same day, Mary Ann wrote about Emburse, a spend management company that started in enterprise that's now going after Brex's small business territory. Ding ding!
  • Today's TechCrunch+ action: Alex opined about whether the SaaS selloff is over now that the public markets are leveling out, saying, "Ironically, interest rates may be the best reason to expect that most of the selloff in software stocks is behind us." Meanwhile, Anna dove into investment in Latin America, where numbers show a slowdown, but it might just be "a correction after some overheating," Anna reported. Don't get out the tissues yet — with all of the seed investment still flowing into the region and some new funds focusing their sights on LatAm, there's "lots of dry powder still to be deployed" apparently.
  • Former Xinjiang prisoner describes experience in Chinese detention camps: At this point, it is hard to not have heard about the Chinese detention camps that are accused of incarcerating people of certain ethnic backgrounds. Zack interviewed one individual who arrived in Washington, D.C., with his family after being granted temporary immigration status by the U.S. government. What’s the tech angle? In the camp and after his release to house arrest, Ovalbek Turdakun said Hikvision-branded cameras were “always on and watching.”

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Meanwhile, fresh from our keeping-an-eye-on-the-propaganda-machine department, TikTok was doing what it could to shed some Russian state media propaganda from its platform, but a study reveals that it's not particularly successful: The platform continues to be dominated by pro-war content.

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