Uber investor Hillhouse goes after food and beverage startups with $100M fund – TechCrunch

The food and beverage market is having a moment as venture capital money sloshes around looking for its high-potential startups. Hillhouse Capital, the China-based investment fund that counts Airbnb, Uber, Baidu, and Tencent and several other tech heavyweights in its portfolio, has set up a $100 million fund with San Francisco-based private equity firm VMG…

Signal Secure Messaging App Now Encrypts Sender’s Identity As Well

Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app, is planning to roll out a new feature that aims to hide the sender’s identity from potential attackers trying to intercept the communication. Although messages send via secure messaging services, like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, are fully end-to-end encrypted as they transmit across their servers, each message leaves…

Lime hires its first chief business officer amid push into car-sharing – TechCrunch

After four months “on the beach,” per his LinkedIn profile, Uber’s former global head of business and corporate development has a new gig. Lime has hired David Richter (pictured) as its first-ever chief business officer and interim chief financial officer. Based in San Francisco, Richter will be overseeing the bike- and e-scooter-sharing startup’s business operations.…