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The outside advantage that your investor may be interested in
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines....
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MacroFab’s approach may be key to nearshoring PCB manufacturing in the US
There’s a growing trend, fed by everything from IP concerns to Suez Canal traffic jams, to bring manufacturing back to North America. This is...
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Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition falls on UK antitrust radar
The U.K.’s competition authority is adding Adobe’s proposed $20 billion bid for digital design rival Figma to its ever-growing...
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Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training
The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Within the span of a few months,...
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Hackajob matches technical talent with companies looking to hire
Even today with all of the layoffs we have seen in the tech industry over the last year, there is still a shortage of technical talent. That’s...
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Fiverr Enterprise aims to streamline managing large groups of freelancers
In 2021, gig marketplace Fiverr acquired Stoke Talent, a startup developing freelance management tools for employers, for $95 million. The move...
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Finix becomes a payments processor, heating up its competition with Stripe
Payments infrastructure startup Finix has slowly been taking swipes at Stripe, first becoming a facilitator, and now becoming a processor....
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As another startup bank partner collapses, tech feels the gap
When First Republic Bank was in its final moments, Silicon Valley didn’t convulse with shock or lather itself into a social media tizzy....
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3 questions CISOs expect you to answer during a security pitch
Nancy Wang Contributor Share on Twitter Nancy Wang is the...
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Pietra helped creators start DTC businesses; now it has a roadmap for everyone
The direct-to-consumer business world continues to be noisy. It’s not enough to just start up a business and advertise on Google and Facebook:...
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Citymapper lowers the paywall for premium features but keeps monthly subscription for removing ads
Citymapper is lowering the paywall around its premium features and introducing a new subscription plan purely for removing ads. The move...
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Augmental lets you control a computer (and sex toys) with your tongue
Worldwide, about one in six people live with a disability. Whether through injury or illness, disability can manifest itself as an impediment to...
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Vote for the breakout sessions you want at Disrupt 2023
In early 2022, you may remember, we called for experts to submit applications to present breakout sessions and roundtable discussions at...
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The era of software-defined battery startups is here
“Batteries are hard,” an expert once said. He wasn’t kidding. Designing and manufacturing pouches, slabs or cylinders filled with volatile...
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Simpplr raises $70M for its AI-powered intranet platform
Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to...
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Once-hot photo-sharing app Poparazzi is shutting down
Poparazzi, the once-hot photo-sharing app that hit the top of the App Store in 2021, is shutting down. The company announced the news via a...
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How this investor widens the net by refusing warm intros
I have often been annoyed by warm introductions. I get why investors insist on them, but it has always struck me as lazy and un-inclusive . So...
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Hey look, OpenAI is even richer now
Hello and welcome back to Equity , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines....
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Automation helps founders avoid the basis point yield trap
Michael Dombrowski Contributor Share on Twitter Michael...
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Vote for the roundtables you want at Disrupt 2023
Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions or...
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Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties
In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase...
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What is this, revenue growth for ants?
It’s earnings season, that time of the quarter when we get to judge how well public tech firms are fulfilling all the lofty promises...
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Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows
When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take...
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Chunk Foods close to opening factory to produce ‘millions’ of plant-based steaks
The global plant-based foods industry accounted for $8 billion in sales and received $1.2 billion in investment in 2022, according to new figures...
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There’s a Disrupt pass for every role and budget
More than 10,000 people from across the country and around the world will converge on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September...