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Airtree Ventures already returned its first fund thanks to Canva while maintaining the majority of its stakeAirtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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TechCrunch Minute: TikTok and Meta’s latest moves signal a more commodified internetThe internet’s mega-platforms are slowly merging into a great blob of sameness, and even the hottest companies in the world are not immune...
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Cendana, Kline Hill have a fresh $105M to buy stakes in seed VC funds from LPs looking to sellFund-of-funds investor Cendana Capital has joined with Kline Hill Partners for a new oversubscribed fund to buy out stakes from seed LPs looking...
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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integrationLyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators. © 2024 TechCrunch....
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Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app....
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Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to SpotifySubstack announced on Thursday it’s introducing a few new features for podcasters on its platform. Most notably, the company is rolling out...
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Humane’s $699 Ai Pin is now availableHumane today announced the availability of its first product, the Ai Pin. The Bay Area-based hardware startup has been kicking around since 2017,...
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How PayJoy built a $300M business by letting the underserved use their smartphones as collateral for loansLerato Motloung is a mother of two who works in a supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa. After her phone was stolen, Motloung had to go...
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Arc browser launches Live Folders to auto-update tabs for youFresh off the heels of raising $50 million at a $550 million valuation in March, The Browser Company continues to bring in more features to its...
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DuckDuckGo launches a new subscription to bundle VPN and identity theft protectionPrivacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a new Privacy Pro subscription on Thursday that bundles a VPN service, personal...
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European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robotSanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility. Based in Canada, with auto manufacturing...
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Amazon, eyeing up AI, adds Andrew Ng to its board; ex-MTV exec McGrath to step downIf corporate boards of directors signal something about where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s just made an interesting move to...
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Elon Musk accused of profiting from tragedy as study finds X rewards hate targeting Israel-Gaza warA few weeks after defeating Elon Musk’s attempt to silence it in court, anti-hate research nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate...
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Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacksApple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware...
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Alternative browsers report uplift after EU’s DMA choice screen mandateA flagship European Union digital market regulation appears to be shaking up competition in the mobile browser market. It’s been a little...
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Astranis unveils Omega ‘MicroGEO’ satellites for beaming dedicated broadband down from high orbitAstranis has taken the wraps off a new generation of communications satellites that will serve broadband to customers on Earth from geostationary...
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Apple News is testing a game that kind of looks like NYT ConnectionsApple News is testing a new game for iOS 17.5 called Quartiles, which requires players to organize a grid of 20 syllables into 5 four-syllable...
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Hundreds of creators sign letter slamming Meta’s limit on political contentIf you haven’t been seeing much political content on Instagram lately, there’s a reason for that. Since March, Instagram and Threads...
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Space diversity initiative builds steam with new leadership and K-12 focused National Space DayA growing effort to attract more women and people of color into the space industry has shared some of its first results and a new occasion to...
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YouTube is switching to read-only comments for kids in supervised experiencesYouTube’s comments section, historically, has had a bad reputation, but a change rolling out could prevent kids from wading into the...
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Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5B, cuts 32% of workforceCheckr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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Y Combinator’s latest cohort had only one LatAm startup in large part because of AIBrazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator's latest batch, the...
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Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for freeGoogle Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to...
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AT&T notifies regulators after customer data breachThe legally required disclosure came a week after AT&T confirmed a cache containing millions of customers' data that leaked online was...
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Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch upMeta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is...
