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Material Evolution raises $19M to decarbonise the cement industryIn the industrial world, cement is about as omnipresent as materials get. But despite its clear and obvious utility, cement is responsible for...
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Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuationIn 2022, Abhay Parasnis, the former CTO of Adobe, founded Typeface , a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases. With it, he hoped...
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India startup funding slides 68% after Tiger and SoftBank make virtually no dealsIndian startups experienced a significant contraction in funding in the first half of 2023 as some kingmaker late-stage backers quelled new...
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DoorDash offers delivery workers hourly rate, but there’s a catchDoorDash will give delivery workers the option to be paid a guaranteed hourly minimum rate instead of being paid per delivery, the company said...
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TuSimple may sell US business as it turns attention to AsiaSelf-driving truck developer TuSimple may sell its U.S. business, the company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday. TuSimple, which is on the...
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Spire and OroraTech will launch a fleet of wildfire-monitoring satellitesThe past few wildfire seasons in the United States and Canada have been some of the most memorable — and dangerous — on record. But despite the...
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Visa acquires Brazilian fintech startup Pismo in $1B blockbuster dealCredit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1 billion in cash in what is likely one of the largest...
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Brex refocuses on startups with hire of SVB veteran, ex-a16z operating partnerJust over one year ago, spend management decacorn Brex declared that it was “ less suited to meet the needs of smaller customers ” in an...
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Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnectsDavid Lazovsky and Preet Virk, technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor engineering and photonics, came to the joint realization several...
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Crypto losses halved in Q2 2023 to $204MAs if the pessimism around crypto wasn’t enough, the industry has historically been hounded by hackers and scammers looking to make a quick...
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As $100M+ venture rounds evaporate, IPOs might have to carry the weightEarlier this year we wrote that the “ the $100 million venture round is going extinct .” Often our predictions wind up sideways. This...
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July 4th weeklong sale on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023Here in the States, we’re celebrating the start of a great summer by traveling back in time. Back to the days of early-bird prices on passes to...
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House GOP discusses use of robot dogs to patrol US bordersThe United States Department of Homeland Security caused a stir last February when it revealed that it was exploring deploying robot dogs on the...
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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visitsReddit community moderators made a bold move earlier this month that caused quite a stir online. They took a stand against the platform’s...
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Techstars raising $150 million for new accelerator fundStartup accelerator Techstars is raising $150 million for its new fund, SEC filings show. The accelerator is seeking new capital ahead of the...
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OpenAI brings the competition to DeepMind’s doorstep with new London officeOpenAI is expanding overseas. To London, specifically. Today, the Microsoft-backed AI startup announced that it plans to open an office in...
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Snowflake and Databricks are putting the data stored in their services to workSnowflake and Databricks are surely similar companies. While each positions itself a bit differently, both provide data storage, processing and...
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Google introduces a new shop tab for rentals and purchases on Android TVGoogle today announced a new “Shop” tab on Android TV to let users browse titles that are available to purchase and rent. The company...
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Quandri raises $8.5M Series A to bring process automation to insurance brokers and agenciesRobotic process automation (RPA) has been a buzzword for a while now, but most of the tools that try to help businesses automate their workflows...
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ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing and moreChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot , has taken the world by storm. Capable of writing emails, essays and more given a few short...
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Shadow revamps its cloud computing offerings in EuropeShadow , a French company that offers a gaming PC in the cloud (among other things ), has announced in a press conference that it is updating...
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US Patent and Trademark Office notifies filers of years-long data leakThe federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks has confirmed it inadvertently exposed about 61,000 filers’...
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Legacy automakers suffer another blow as Aston Martin spurns Mercedes-AMG’s electrified techFew places exemplify the peak of the internal combustion engine better than the Mercedes-AMG factory in Affalterbach, Germany. There, individual...
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Bitpanda’s crypto exchange separates from Bitpanda and secures $33 millionFintech startup Bitpanda is splitting into two companies as Bitpanda Pro — the company’s cryptocurrency exchange — is going to become its own...
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Fairphone CEO Eva Gouwens to step downFairphone CEO Eva Gouwens has announced that she’s stepping down, some five years after landing in the hotseat . Founded out of the...
