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Snap Map lets you share your current location, which appears to friends on a map and updates when you open Snapchat. It’s rolling out today to all <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapchat/id447188370?mt=8" rel="noopener">iOS</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapchat.android&hl=en" rel="noopener">Android</a> users globally.</p> <p>“We’ve built a whole new way to explore the world! See what’s happening, find your friends, and get inspired to go on an adventure!,” Snap writes on its <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/introducing-the-snap-map/" rel="noopener">blog</a>.</p> <p>[Update: Snap Map was based on Snapchat’s secret acquisition of social map app Zenly for $250 million to $350 million. <strong><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/snapchat-buys-zenly/" rel="noopener">Read our full story on Snap’s acquisition of Zenly here</a>.</strong>]</p> <p><span class="embed-youtube embed breakout embed--video" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvl82FfnUvw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation"></iframe></span></p> <h2>How to use Snapchat’s Snap Map</h2> <p>When you open Snapchat once you have access to the feature, you can choose to share your location with all your friends, a few friends you select or you can disappear from the map at any time by going into Ghost Mode or not opening Snapchat for a few hours. Alternatively, location sharing is turned off by default and you can leave it that way to just lurk, watching what friends are up to.</p> <p>To access the Snap Map, you pinch on your Snapchat camera home screen. From there you can scroll around to see where friends are in your city or around the world. Tapping on their “ActionMoji” BitMoji avatar opens their Story to show what they’re up to, or lets you message them directly to make meetup plans. Snapchat automatically picks an ActionMoji for you based on your location, time of day and other factors.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1506202" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?w=680" alt="" width="680" height="404" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png 2243w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=150,89 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=300,178 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=768,457 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=680,404 680w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=1536,914 1536w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=2048,1218 2048w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=50,30 50w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px"/></p> <p>Outside of the location-sharing element, Snap Map also gives users an alternative way to discover Story content beyond the well-worn Stories feed and the powerful but buried <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/snaptube/" rel="noopener">Story Search feature</a>. Users can submit Snapchat Story posts to Our Story to be eligible for their content to appear to non-friends for around 24 hours. You also can see “heat” colors on the Snap Map to see where lots of Snaps are being uploaded, which might indicate a concert or big event from which you’d want to explore Snap Stories.</p> <p>Snap tells me that Snap Map is designed for enhancing connections between people and their closest friends — engagement that makes up nearly 60 percent of interactions on Snapchat according to data from Sparkler that was commissioned by Snap.</p> <p>These new ways to surface content could earn Snapchat more money by getting users to watch more Snaps, even if they’re not trying to meet up with friends. However, for now, Snap tells me there won’t be any ads on the Snap Map. If you see a cluster of content labeled Featured, that just means it’s curated by Snapchat’s team and will appear in the Discover section, as well.</p> <p>Overall, Snap Map creates a low-friction way to see where your Snap-addicted friends are and what they’re up to. While not as precise as a real-time location-sharing feature, it’s also less likely to creep people out.</p> <h2>The quest to cure loneliness</h2> <p>[Update: Snapchat appeared to have<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/snap-copied-location-sharing-app-zenly-to-build-snap-map/" rel="noopener"> copied social map startup Zenly</a> for this feature, but now we’ve learned that Snap Inc has acquired Zenly for $250 million to $350 million in mostly cash and some stock. Snap will keep Zenly running independently, similar to how Facebook runs Instagram independently. <strong><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/snapchat-buys-zenly/" rel="noopener">Read our full story on Snap’s acquisition of Zenly here.</a>]</strong></p> <p><div id="attachment_1506361" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1506361" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-1506361 size-large" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?w=680" alt="" width="680" height="581" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg 814w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=150,128 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=300,257 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=768,657 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=680,581 680w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=50,43 50w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px"/><p id="caption-attachment-1506361" class="wp-caption-text">Zenly on the left appears to have been copied for Snapchat’s Snap Map after the startup turned down Snap’s acquisition offer</p></div></p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="vertical alignright wp-image-1506400" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?w=381" alt="" width="250" height="447" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png 828w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=84,150 84w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=168,300 168w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=768,1369 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=381,680 381w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=28,50 28w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px"/>Snap Map will compete with<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/03/27/facebook-messenger-live-location/" rel="noopener"> Facebook Messenger’s recently launched Live Location feature</a>. But because Snap Map only updates when you open the app, it’s more geared toward privacy and saving battery life. While Facebook wants to be your bridge to all the acquaintances in your life, Snapchat is focusing on your best friends you can’t live without.</p> <p>A year ago I wrote that Snapchat and Messenger were <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2016/06/10/come-together/" rel="noopener">the best equipped apps to launch location-sharing features and “cure loneliness,”</a> and now the two are going head-to-head. <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://www.theinformation.com/snap-eyeing-maps-in-battle-for-location" rel="noopener">The Information</a> reported earlier this week that a Snap Maps feature was in the works.</p> <p>Snapchat has needed something new and special to <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/06/15/snap-hit-another-major-low-and-is-rapidly-tumbling-toward-its-ipo-price/" rel="noopener">kick some life</a> into the service after it started <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/05/10/snapchat-user-count/" rel="noopener">getting out-competed</a> by clone <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/instagram-live-video-replays/" rel="noopener">Instagram Stories, which now has 250 million daily users</a> compared to Snapchat’s 166 million. Turning the app into more of a communications and offline meetup utility instead of just an online content-sharing network could give teens a whole new reason to stay glued to Snapchat.</p> </div> <footer class="article-footer"> <input title="Article Shortlink" class="shortlink" readonly type="text" value=""/> </footer> </article> </div> </div> </div>  <script data-cfasync="false"> function uuidProfileCall() { var rootUrl = 'https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://api.parsely.com/v2/profile?apikey=techcrunch.com'; var uuid = '&uuid=' + PARSELY.config.parsely_site_uuid; var requestUrl = rootUrl + uuid + '&url=' + window.location.href; jQuery.ajax({ url: requestUrl, dataType: "jsonp" }); } if (typeof PARSELY == 'object') { var oldonload = PARSELY.onload; if (typeof PARSELY.onload != 'function') { PARSELY.onload = uuidProfileCall } else { PARSELY.onload = function () { if (oldonload) { oldonload(); } uuidProfileCall(); }; } } else { PARSELY = { onload: uuidProfileCall } } </script> <script data-cfasync="false" id="parsely-cfg" data-parsely-site="techcrunch.com" src="//web.archive.org/web/20210119105655js_/https://cdn.parsely.com/keys/techcrunch.com/p.js"></script>  <noscript style="display:none;"> <img height="1" width="1" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655im_/https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1447508128842484&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/> </noscript> <script type="text/javascript"> // Configure the PARSELY window global to disable auto-tracking. // Must load before the Parse.ly script itself. window.PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: this.onload, }; </script> <script id="parsely-cfg" data-parsely-site="techcrunch.com" src="//web.archive.org/web/20210119105655js_/https://d1z2jf7jlzjs58.cloudfront.net/keys/techcrunch.com/p.js?tc_ver=20210119"></script> <script type="application/javascript">(function(w,d,t,r,u){w[u]=w[u]||[];w[u].push({'projectId':'10000','properties':{'pixelId':'428726','qstrings': { 'et': 'custom','ea': 'page view','product_id': window.location.pathname,'site': 'techcrunch' },}});var s=d.createElement(t);s.src=r;s.async=true;s.onload=s.onreadystatechange=function(){var y,rs=this.readyState,c=w[u];if(rs&&rs!="complete"&&rs!="loaded"){return}try{y=YAHOO.ywa.I13N.fireBeacon;w[u]=[];w[u].push=function(p){y([p])};y(c)}catch(e){}};var scr=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0],par=scr.parentNode;par.insertBefore(s,scr)})(window,document,"script","https://web.archive.org/web/20210119105655/https://s.yimg.com/wi/ytc.js","dotq"); </script>  <script type="application/ld+json"> {"@context":"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119105655\/http:\/\/schema.org","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":{"@type":"imageObject","url":"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119105655\/https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/themes\/techcrunch-2017\/images\/logo-json-ld.png","width":"600","height":"60"}},"@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119105655\/https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/06\/21\/snap-map\/"},"headline":"Snapchat launches location-sharing feature Snap Map","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119105655\/https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map1.jpg?w=680","width":680,"height":356},"datePublished":"2017-06-21T15:11:36+00:00","dateModified":"2017-06-22T00:23:31+00:00","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Josh Constine"}],"description":"Snapchat's next big feature wants to get you to meet up with friends in real life rather than just watching each other's lives on your phones. 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But Goldberg said that the company would be profitable in 2020, with revenue that’s “a little bit under $100 million.” And it won’t be the first digital media company to take a similar route \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/15\/group-nines-spac-goes-public\/\">Group Nine created a SPAC that went public last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>“I want to prove that we can be highly profitable,” he said. “A lot of startups don’t have that goal. A lot of VCs tell their startups: Don’t worry about profits, don’t worry about losing money. I don’t believe in that.”<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his plans to go public, Goldberg also discussed how acquisitions have helped Bustle’s business, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/13\/fashion\/w-magazine-deal-bustle-digital-group.html\">his joint venture to purchase W Magazine<\/a> and digital media’s “overcapitalization” problem. You can read our full conversation, edited for length and clarity, below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TechCrunch: The last time I caught up with someone at BDG, it was with [<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/06\/how-will-digital-media-survive-the-ad-crash\/\">the company’s president Jason Wagenheim<\/a>] and that was when you guys were dealing with the initial fallout [from the pandemic]. Now we’re a lot further into whatever this new world is, so what is your sense of where BDG is now, versus where it was in the early days of the pandemic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan Goldberg:<\/strong> It might be the craziest, most eventful six months for many of us in our lives. And certainly, for those of us in this industry, the difference between April and October, it’s really hard to fathom, it’s complete night and day. April was a very frightening time for everyone, personally and professionally across the country, across the world.<\/p>\n<p>From an advertising standpoint, it was a really scary time, because we have clients across every industry, and every industry was impacted differently. We have clients who were greatly impacted \u2014 theme parks, car makers, hotel companies, airlines \u2014 and then we had clients who were not as badly affected, such as a lot of CPG clients, who everybody depended upon so much during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>There was a huge pause in our business in in March, April and May. For a lot of clients, tossing advertising was a sort of knee-jerk reaction to the sudden shock of COVID, and so we saw a huge negative impact in our second quarter. What we started to see in the third quarter, and especially now in the fourth quarter, is now that the shock of COVID is behind us, the macro trends that were catalyzed by COVID are now moving into the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>The story of media is no longer about the shock of COVID. The story of media is now about all of the changes to our world, and changes to our industry that were brought about as a consequence of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for our company, and the good news for other digital media companies, is it looks like the future is being accelerated. It looks like people are watching less television, and so advertisers are moving their budgets into digital faster than they would have had it not been for COVID. Even things like live sports, [their] TV ratings are way down. And a lot of advertisers are saying, \u201cIs there efficacy anymore in cable television or broadcast television?\u201d And the magazine industry was heavily impaired, simply because magazines are a physical medium, and people didn’t want to pass around magazines or read magazines at the dentist’s office, so we probably saw some print budget move into digital as well.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts now are going to take up their estimates of what digital revenue is going to look like in 2021, 2022 and beyond. I also think we’ve seen a world in which a lot of brand advertisers are starting to think about what happens when they start to spend beyond Facebook and Google. For most of the last three years, there’s been so much talk about the duopoly, the idea that Facebook and Google are going to eat almost every last dollar of advertising. 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Existing investors including Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital India also participated in the round, which brings the five-year old startup\u2019s raise to-date to about $35 million.<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 firms including — Tokopedia, Indorama, JG Summit Group, Zilingo, Zalora, Fave, Adani, Mahindra, Kotak, TVS, National Stock Exchange, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Dr.Reddy\u2019s, Nivea, Puma, Swiggy, Bigbasket — use <a href=\"https:\/\/darwinbox.com\/\">Darwinbox<\/a>\u2019s HR platform to provide more than a million employees of theirs with a range of features in 60 nations, up from about 200 firms across 50 nations in late 2019, said Chaitanya Peddi, co-founder of Darwinbox, in an interview with TechCrunch.<\/p><div class=\"piano-inline-promo\"><\/div>\n<p>Peddi said the startup has always looked up to Salesforce for inspiration, and investment from the enterprise giant is “nothing sort of a child receiving validation from their father,” he said.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraise caps the most successful year for the startup that started with uncertainty as the coronavirus spread across Asian nations. The startup initially took a hit as its customers scrambled to navigate through the global pandemic, but the last two quarters have been its best to date, said Peddi.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/09\/25\/india-darwinbox-raises-15m-to-bring-hr-tech-platform-to-more-asian-markets\/\">last raised money<\/a>, he said. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dev Khare, a partner at Lightspeed India, an early backer of the startup, said that Darwinbox has become the preferred human capital management solution for Asian conglomerates, governments, and high-growth businesses and multi-national corporations operating in Asia as they witness digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2097821\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2097821\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2097821\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg 1201w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg?resize=150,79 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg?resize=300,157 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg?resize=768,402 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg?resize=680,356 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwinbox-FullTeam.jpeg?resize=50,26 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2097821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> Darwinbox<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Darwinbox’s platform is built to take care of the entire “hiring to retiring” cycle needs of employees. It handles onboarding of new hires, keeps a tab on their performance, monitors attrition rate, and provides an ongoing feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides its customers with a social network for their employees to remain connected with one another and an AI assistant to apply for a leave or set up meetings with quick voice commands from their phones.<\/p>\n<p>Peddi said the startup will deploy the fresh capital to expand to several more countries, especially in more emerging markets in the Middle East Asia and Africa, and broaden its offerings. “We will be leveraging the power of our platform to do a lot more. We are a product-led firm and our focus will remain on innovation in that space,” he said. The startup is also open to exploring opportunities to acquire smaller firms for inorganic growth, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">“India is home to one of the world’s youngest population, and by 2050, it is expected to account for over 18% of the global working age population,” said Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson and CEO, Salesforce India, in a statement. “This makes technology platforms like Darwinbox, that focuses on workforces, incredibly important. I’m proud that Salesforce is supporting Darwinbox on their journey as they continue to grow and innovate in this space.”<\/p>\n<p>Alex Kayyal, partner and head of international at Salesforce Ventures, told TechCrunch in an interview that the firm helps its partners in a number of ways, including exposing them to the firm’s customers, executives and their networks, and helping startups scale their business.<\/p>\n<p>“We have one of the most innovative and disruptive customer bases that are looking for cloud solutions and digital transformation. So the opportunity to expose companies like Darwinbox to our customer base is something we get really excited about,” said Kayyal. 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RTP Global and existing investors Sequoia Capital India, FMO, Omnivore and AgFunder also participated in it, bringing the startup\u2019s to-date raise to over $46 million. (Dexter Capital was the advisor for this funding round.)<\/p><div class=\"piano-inline-promo\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges farmers in India face is securing agri-input items such as seeds and fertilizers and then finding buyers after producing the yields.<\/p>\n<p>DeHaat, which is Hindi for village, is solving this by bringing brands, institutional financers and buyers to one platform, which is accessible through a helpline and an app in local languages.<\/p>\n<p>Only about a third of the yields Indian farmers produce reaches the big markets, according to industry estimates. It’s traditionally proven immensely difficult for farmers to find buyers for their produce.<\/p>\n<p>Once the season is over, DeHaat helps farmers sell their yields to bulk buyers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/06\/indian-b2b-e-commerce-startup-udaan-raises-280-million\/\">business-to-business marketplace Udaan<\/a>, Reliance Fresh, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/18\/indian-food-delivery-giant-zomato-raises-660-million\/\">food delivery firm Zomato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year-old startup has also developed a database of crop tests and uses artificial intelligence to provide farmers with free-of-cost personalized advisory on what they should sow in a season. DeHaat also helps farmers secure working capital through partnership with hundreds of institutional firms.<\/p>\n<p>We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/04\/06\/agritech-startup-dehaat-raises-12m-to-reach-more-farmers-in-india\/\">raised a $12 million financing round<\/a>. The past nine months has been the story of its accelerated growth despite the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted lockdowns across the nation for several months.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, which today has presence in eastern part of India \u2014 states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal — serves close to 400,000 farmers, up from about 210,000 in April last year, Shashank Kumar, co-founder and chief executive of the startup, told TechCrunch in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>How the startup is tackling these challenges is equally impressive. It works with nearly 1,400 micro-entrepreneurs, up from about 400 last year, in rural areas who distribute over 4,000 types of agri-input goods to farmers from their regional hubs and then bring back the output to the same hub. \u201cThey are the ones responsible for last-mile delivery and aggregation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DeHaat has grown on every front, including the revenue it clocks, which is up 3X to 3.5X since last year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of March, our daily volume out was around 200 metric tonne. Now it\u2019s over 600 metric tonne. Everyday we aggregate this much from farmers and supply to FMCG players and modern retails. Similarly on the agri-input side — seed, fertilizers, and pesticide — we are processing close to 10,000 orders everyday, compared to about 2,600 in March of last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsus Ventures invests in industries around the world where innovation can significantly address big societal needs,\u201d said Ashutosh Sharma, Head of India Investments at Prosus Ventures, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeHaat is catering to a massive market in India with the agriculture sector worth more than $350 billion to the country\u2019s economy and consisting of an estimated 140 million+ farmers. Through its end-to-end agricultural services offerings, DeHaat will have a major societal impact in India, improving the earning potential for Indian farmers and overall yield for the sector while also enabling microentrepreneurs all over the country, including in rural areas where there is often less income opportunity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The startup plans to deploy the fresh capital to expand to more states in India including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra and eventually serve 10 million farmers.<\/p>\n<p>And another area where it intends to focus is hiring top tech talent. The startup has doubled its workforce since the past year, with many high-profile hires from major firms. The startup, which recently made its second acquisition, is also open to exploring more M&A opportunities, said DeHaat’s Shashank Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>Once ignored, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/17\/urbankisaan-is-betting-on-vertical-farming-to-bring-pesticide-free-vegetables-to-consumers-and-fight-indias-water-crisis\/\">scores of agritech startups<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/14\/arya-raises-21-million-for-its-agritech-and-finance-platform\/\">cropped up<\/a> in India in recent years — and many old startups are beginning to receive large-sized checks from investors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Around two dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/agritech?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#agritech<\/a> startups have raised funds this year (till date) <\/p>\n<p>Ergos<br \/>Unnati <br \/>Bijak<br \/>DeHaat<br \/>Ninjacart<br \/>Gourmet Garden<br \/>Farmers Fresh Zone<br \/>Krishitantra <br \/>Kheyti<br \/>BigHaat<br \/>VeGrow<br \/>Procol<br \/>Agro2o<br \/>Waycool<br \/>Jai Kisan<br \/>Intello Labs<br \/>Crofarm<br \/>Eggoz<br \/>Aibono<br \/>Arya<br \/>Clover<br \/>Kisan Network<\/p>\n<p>— Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/upadhyay_harsh1\/status\/1315941214646984704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>Further reading: <\/strong>Omnivore and Accel recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedtoscale.com\/blog\/post-covid-agritech-landscape-in-india\">co-authored a report<\/a> on India’s agritech landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once overlooked, agritech startups are beginning to have a moment in India. 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The DPC has provisionally concluded this investigation and we sent a draft decision to our fellow EU Data Protection Authorities on December 24, 2020 (in accordance with Article 60 of the GDPR in order to commence the co-decision-making process) and we are waiting to receive their comments on this draft decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>“When the process is completed and a final decision issues, it will make clear the standard of transparency to which WhatsApp is expected to adhere as articulated by EU Data Protection Authorities,” it added.<\/p>\n<p>A WhatsApp spokesperson added: \u201cWe continue to cooperate with the IDPC and await its final decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ireland has additional<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/02\/19\/lack-of-big-tech-gdpr-decisions-looms-large-in-eu-watchdogs-annual-report\/\"> ongoing GDPR investigations<\/a> into other aspects of the tech giant’s business, including related to complaints filed back in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/25\/facebook-google-face-first-gdpr-complaints-over-forced-consent\/\">May 2018 by the EU privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb<\/a> (over so-called “forced consent”). In <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/22\/first-major-gdpr-decisions-looming-on-twitter-and-facebook\/\">May 2020<\/a> the DPC said that separate investigation was at the decision-making phase — but so far it has not confirmed sending a draft decision for review.<\/p>\n<p>It’s also notably that the time between the DPC’s Twitter draft and the final decision being issued — after gaining majority backing from other EU DPAs — was almost seven months.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter case was relatively straightforward (a data breach) versus the more complex business of assessing “transparency.” So a final decision on WhatsApp seems unlikely to come to a swifter resolution. There are clearly substantial differences of opinion between DPAs on how the GDPR should be enforced across the bloc. (In the Twitter case, for example, German DPAs suggested a fine of up to $22 million versus Ireland’s initial proposal of a maximum of $300,000). Although there is some hope that GDPR enforcement of cross-border cases will speed up as DPAs gain experience of the various mechanisms and processes involved in making these co-decisions (even if major ideological gaps remain).<\/p>\n<p>Returning to WhatsApp, the messaging platform has had plenty of problems with transparency in recent weeks — garnering lots of unwelcome attention and concern over the privacy implications of a confusing mandatory update to its T&Cs which has contributed to a major migration of users to alternative chat platforms, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/12\/signal-brian-acton-talks-about-exploding-growth-monetization-and-whatsapp-data-sharing-outrage\/\">Signal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/14\/e2e-encrypted-email-providers-also-see-sign-ups-surge-as-chat-app-users-flock-to-signal-and-telegram-in-search-of-privacy\/\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash led WhatsApp to announced <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/15\/whatsapp-delays-new-data-sharing-policy-enforcement-to-may-15\/\">last week<\/a> that it was delaying enforcement of the new terms by three months.\u00a0Last week Italy’s data protection agency also issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/14\/confusion-over-whatsapps-new-tcs-triggers-privacy-warning-from-italy\/\">warning<\/a> over a lack of clarity in the T&Cs — saying it could intervene using an emergency process allowed for by EU law (which would be in addition to the ongoing DPC procedure).<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"baipchOJZY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/14\/confusion-over-whatsapps-new-tcs-triggers-privacy-warning-from-italy\/\">Confusion over WhatsApp’s new T&Cs triggers privacy warning from Italy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Confusion over WhatsApp’s new T&Cs triggers privacy warning from Italy” — TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/14\/confusion-over-whatsapps-new-tcs-triggers-privacy-warning-from-italy\/embed\/#?secret=baipchOJZY\" data-secret=\"baipchOJZY\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>On the WhatsApp T&Cs controversy, the DPC’s deputy commissioner Graham Doyle told us the regulator had received “numerous queries” from confused and concerned stakeholders that he said led it to reengage with the company. The regulator previously obtained a commitment from WhatsApp that there is “no change to data-sharing practices either in the European Region or the rest of the world.” But it subsequently confirmed it would delay enforcement of the new terms.<\/p>\n<p>“The updates made by WhatsApp last week are about providing clearer, more detailed information to users on how and why they use data. WhatsApp have confirmed to us that there is no change to data-sharing practices either in the European Region or the rest of the world arising from these updates. However, the DPC has received numerous queries from stakeholders who are confused and concerned about these updates,” Doyle said.<\/p>\n<p>“We engaged with WhatsApp on the matter and they confirmed to us that they will delay the date by which people will be asked to review and accept the terms from February 8 to May 15. In the meantime, WhatsApp will launch information campaigns to provide further clarity about how privacy and security works on the platform. We will continue to engage with WhatsApp on these updates.”<\/p>\n<p>While there’s no doubt Europe’s record of enforcement of its much vaunted data protection laws against tech giants remains <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/06\/24\/gdprs-two-year-review-flags-lack-of-vigorous-enforcement\/\">a major weak point of the regulation<\/a>, there are signs that increased user awareness of rights and, more broadly, concern for privacy, is causing a shift in the balance of power in favor of users.<\/p>\n<p>Proper privacy enforcement is still sorely lacking but Facebook being forced to put a T&C update on ice for three months — as its business is subject to ongoing regulatory scrutiny — suggests the days of platform giants being able to move fast and break things are firmly on the wain.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, for example, Facebook recently had to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/10\/22\/facebook-dating-launches-in-europe-after-9-month-delay-over-privacy-concerns\/\">delay the launch of a dating feature in Europe<\/a> while it consulted with the DPC. It also remains limited in the data it can share between WhatsApp and Facebook because of the existence of the GDPR —<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPCIreland\/status\/973985987876573184\"> so still can’t<\/a>\u00a0share data for ad targeting and product enhancement purposes, even under the new terms.<\/p>\n<p>Europe, meanwhile, is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/30\/understanding-europes-big-push-to-rewrite-the-digital-rulebook\/\">coming with ex ante rules for platform giants<\/a> that will place further obligations on how they can operate — with the aim of counteracting abusive\/unfair business behaviors and bolstering competition in digital markets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Kbpvyky6CO\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/11\/26\/gdpr-enforcement-must-level-up-to-catch-big-tech-report-warns\/\">GDPR enforcement must level up to catch big tech, report warns<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“GDPR enforcement must level up to catch big tech, report warns” — TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/11\/26\/gdpr-enforcement-must-level-up-to-catch-big-tech-report-warns\/embed\/#?secret=Kbpvyky6CO\" data-secret=\"Kbpvyky6CO\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"X7bMt4svpY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/30\/understanding-europes-big-push-to-rewrite-the-digital-rulebook\/\">Understanding Europe’s big push to rewrite the digital rulebook<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Understanding Europe’s big push to rewrite the digital rulebook” — TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/30\/understanding-europes-big-push-to-rewrite-the-digital-rulebook\/embed\/#?secret=X7bMt4svpY\" data-secret=\"X7bMt4svpY\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>This report was updated with comment from WhatsApp.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-running investigation in the European Union focused on the transparency of data-sharing between Facebook and WhatsApp has taken the first major step toward a resolution. 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Snap Map lets you share your current location, which appears to friends on a map and updates when you open Snapchat. It’s rolling out today to all <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/snapchat\/id447188370?mt=8\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.snapchat.android&hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a> users globally.<\/p>\n<p>“We’ve built a whole new way to explore the world! 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Alternatively, location sharing is turned off by default and you can leave it that way to just lurk, watching what friends are up to.<\/p>\n<p>To access the Snap Map, you pinch on your Snapchat camera home screen. From there you can scroll around to see where friends are in your city or around the world. Tapping on their “ActionMoji” BitMoji avatar opens their Story to show what they’re up to, or lets you message them directly to make meetup plans. Snapchat automatically picks an ActionMoji for you based on your location, time of day and other factors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1506202\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?w=680\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png 2243w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=150,89 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=300,178 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=768,457 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=680,404 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=1536,914 1536w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=2048,1218 2048w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/snap-map-onboarding.png?resize=50,30 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside of the location-sharing element, Snap Map also gives users an alternative way to discover Story content beyond the well-worn Stories feed and the powerful but buried <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/31\/snaptube\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Story Search feature<\/a>. Users can submit Snapchat Story posts to Our Story to be eligible for their content to appear to non-friends for around 24 hours. You also can see “heat” colors on the Snap Map to see where lots of Snaps are being uploaded, which might indicate a concert or big event from which you’d want to explore Snap Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Snap tells me that Snap Map is designed for enhancing connections between people and their closest friends — engagement that makes up nearly 60 percent of interactions on Snapchat according to data from Sparkler that was commissioned by Snap.<\/p>\n<p>These new ways to surface content could earn Snapchat more money by getting users to watch more Snaps, even if they’re not trying to meet up with friends. However, for now, Snap tells me there won’t be any ads on the Snap Map. If you see a cluster of content labeled Featured, that just means it’s curated by Snapchat’s team and will appear in the Discover section, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Snap Map creates a low-friction way to see where your Snap-addicted friends are and what they’re up to. While not as precise as a real-time location-sharing feature, it’s also less likely to creep people out.<\/p>\n<h2>The quest to cure loneliness<\/h2>\n<p>[Update: Snapchat appeared to have<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/2017\/06\/21\/snap-copied-location-sharing-app-zenly-to-build-snap-map\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> copied social map startup Zenly<\/a> for this feature, but now we’ve learned that Snap Inc has acquired Zenly for $250 million to $350 million in mostly cash and some stock. Snap will keep Zenly running independently, similar to how Facebook runs Instagram independently. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/2017\/06\/21\/snapchat-buys-zenly\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read our full story on Snap’s acquisition of Zenly here.<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1506361\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1506361\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1506361 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg 814w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=150,128 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=300,257 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=768,657 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=680,581 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/zenly-snap-map.jpg?resize=50,43 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1506361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zenly on the left appears to have been copied for Snapchat’s Snap Map after the startup turned down Snap’s acquisition offer<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vertical alignright wp-image-1506400\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?w=381\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png 828w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=84,150 84w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=168,300 168w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=768,1369 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=381,680 381w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-10-47-33-am.png?resize=28,50 28w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Snap Map will compete with<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/27\/facebook-messenger-live-location\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> Facebook Messenger’s recently launched Live Location feature<\/a>. But because Snap Map only updates when you open the app, it’s more geared toward privacy and saving battery life. 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