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11 VCs reveal how hard it was for their startups to fundraise in H1 2023Everyone knows that raising venture capital has been harder for startups lately — unless you are building an AI startup , of course. But instead...
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Fund of funds are starting to play a different role for venture LPsFund of funds (FoF) were created to serve as a bridge for LPs to get access to managers they couldn’t back otherwise. But in an environment...
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Say goodbye to Q2 and the crypto hacks, scams and rug pulls that came with itFollow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. As if the pessimism...
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Major League Baseball embraces 3D motion tracking to scout playersSometimes baseball feels like a game of inches. Clubs often compete for seemingly small advantages to get a leg up. Over the last couple of...
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Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels NBA and Marvel gamesPokémon GO maker Niantic laid off 230 employees today, just one year after it laid off around 90 employees . During last year’s layoffs,...
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VW subsidiary Electrify America to add Tesla connectors to EV charging networkElectrify America has become the latest company to align itself with Tesla’s EV charging standard. The company, which was created as part...
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Scriptic scores $5.7M as it expands its phone-first generative AI content libraryScriptic (previously ElectricNoir), the immersive storytelling platform, announced Thursday that it raised $5.7 million in funding to expand its...
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Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141MIt’s a big day for generative AI funding. On the heels of Inflection AI landing a $1.3 billion investment, Runway , a startup building...
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Signal talks privacy, encryption, AI and more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023’s Security StageIn our tech-driven world, the right to privacy — once the cornerstone of democracy — is disappearing at an alarming rate. But not everyone is keen...
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Big Tech corporate venture capitalAs the race to build generative AI tools for the enterprise devolves into a battle royale, Big Tech companies are busy wielding their most...
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Millions affected by MOVEit mass-hacks as list of casualties continues to growHackers have compromised the personal data of more than 15.5 million individuals by exploiting a security vulnerability in the MOVEit file...
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Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234MOne of China’s most highly anticipated artificial intelligence startups is undergoing a significant change of direction. Guangnian Zhi...
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Speakeasy is using AI to automate API creation and distributionJust about every developer wants to create APIs to help other companies connect to their services more easily, but creating and documenting an API...
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How Porsche plans to grow margins with luxury and speedPorsche — with CEO Oliver Blume behind the wheel — has zipped by a number of milestones over the past several years. Its share price...
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Batteries beat oil and gas as AI startup pivots to critical minerals explorationThere’s been a lot of talk about how the energy transition could cost jobs in key sectors of the economy like oil and gas. But what often goes...
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Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and EdgeMicrosoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar....
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Snapchat+ reaches 4 million paid subscribers since launching a year agoSnapchat announced today that its Snapchat+ subscription service has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year since launching. The...
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High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’After a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every...
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Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las VegasHalo Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas....
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Social trading app Shares receives EU stock trading licenseFintech startup Shares has raised $90 million for its stock trading app. And yet, the service is only available to people who live in the U.K....
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Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry HealthSexual and mental health stigmatization in Africa has evolved over several decades to a point where negligence to address the issue has led to the...
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Meta expects recommendation models ‘orders of magnitude’ bigger than GPT-4. Why?Meta made a remarkable claim in an announcement published today intended to give more clarity on its content recommendation algorithms. It’s...
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Cyware lands $30M to modernize cybersecurity operationsCyware , a startup developing products to help enterprises modernize their security operations, today announced that it raised $30 million in a...
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Meta really wants to explain its AI recommendation algorithms to youMeta is publishing new material to explain how its recommendation engine works across different products. Along with that, it is also rolling out...
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B Garage raises $20M for its warehouse inventory dronesB Garage , a San Jose-based startup building autonomous drones along with software to track warehouse inventory, said today that it has picked...
