Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking

Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out its product and enter new markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

UK-based legaltech company Lawhive, which offers an AI-based in-house ‘lawyer’ through a software-as-a-service platform targeted at small law firms, has raised £9.5 million ($11.9M) in a seed round to expand the reach of AI-driven services for ‘main street’ law firms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy towards affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to cut headcount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

India is getting an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that charges from 0 to 100% in 15 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The startup has raised $28 million to help fund a nationwide expansion of its cardboard-based cellulose building insulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices