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VCs wanted FarmboxRx to become a meal kit, the company bootstrapped insteadSome startups choose to bootstrap from the beginning while others find themselves forced into self funding by a lack of investor interest or a...
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Uber’s and Lyft’s ride-hailing deal with Minnesota comes at a costUber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota will see higher pay thanks to a deal between the state and the country’s two largest ride-hailing...
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a16z’s American Dynamism team launches program to introduce technical minds to VCAndreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism fund has established a new fellowship program aimed at introducing top engineers and technologists to...
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Teen fintech Copper had to abruptly discontinue its banking, debit productsAnother fintech startup, and its customers, has been gravely impacted by the implosion of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse. Copper Banking, a...
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Autodesk acquires AI-powered VFX startup Wonder DynamicsAutodesk — the 3D tools behemoth — has acquired Wonder Dynamics, a startup that lets creators quickly and easily make complex characters and...
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Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily usersFarcaster, a blockchain-based social protocol founded by two Coinbase alumni, announced on Tuesday that it closed a $150 million fundraise. Led by...
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Microsoft’s new ‘Volumetric Apps’ for Quest headsets extend Windows apps into the 3D spaceMicrosoft announced on Tuesday during its annual Build conference that it’s bringing “Windows Volumetric Apps” to Meta Quest...
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The ‘vote Trump’ spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival NostrThe spam reached Bluesky by first crossing over two other decentralized networks: Mastodon and Nostr. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
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There’s a real appetite for a fintech alternative to QuickBooksWelcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the continued fallout from Synapse’s bankruptcy, how Layer wants to disrupt SMB...
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Bill Gates-backed wind startup AirLoom is raising $12M, filings revealThe company is hoping to produce electricity at $13 per megawatt hour, which would be more than 50% cheaper than traditional onshore wind. ©...
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WitnessAI is building guardrails for generative AI modelsGenerative AI makes stuff up. It can be biased. Sometimes it spits out toxic text. So can it be “safe”? Rick Caccia, the CEO of...
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French AI startup H raises $220M seed roundIt’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced...
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Boost your startup’s growth with a ScaleUp package at TC Disrupt 2024Hey there, Series A to B startups with $35 million or less in funding — we’ve got an exciting opportunity that’s tailor-made for your...
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As a US ban looms, TikTok announces a $1M program for socially driven creatorsTikTok is pulling out all the stops to prevent its impending ban in the United States. Aside from initiating legal action against the U.S....
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Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platformsMicrosoft’s big focus at this year’s Build conference is generative AI. And to that end, the tech giant announced a series of updates...
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GitHub Copilot gets extensionsBuild is Microsoft’s largest developer conference and of course, it’s all about AI this year. So it’s no surprise that...
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Microsoft’s Power Automate no-code platform adds AI flowsMicrosoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to...
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Microsoft intros a Copilot for teamsMicrosoft wants to make its brand of generative AI more useful for teams — specifically teams across corporations and large enterprise...
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UK data protection watchdog ends privacy probe of Snap’s GenAI chatbot, but warns industryThe U.K.’s data protection watchdog has closed an almost year-long investigation of Snap’s AI chatbot, My AI — saying it’s...
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Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performanceAll cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as...
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Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8BScale AI, a company that provides data-labeling services for training machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew...
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Meta, Match, Coinbase and others team up to fight online fraud and crypto scamsThe new coalition, Tech Against Scams, will work together to find ways to fight back against the tools used by scammers and to better educate the...
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EU Council gives final nod to set up risk-based regulations for AIIt's a wrap: European Union lawmakers have given the final approval to set up the bloc's flagship, risk-based regulations for artificial...
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Vitesse, a payments and treasury management platform for insurers, raises $93M to fuel US expansionLondon-based fintech Vitesse has closed a $93 million Series C round of funding led by investment giant KKR. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
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Zen Educate raises $37M and acquires Aquinas Education as it tries to address the teacher shortageZen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, has raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding. The raise comes...
