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Sarcos buying fellow robotics firm RE2 in $100M deal
Sarcos this morning announced plans to acquire fellow robotics firm RE2. The deal, valued at $100 million, includes $30 million in cash and $70 million in Sarcos stock. The company says it will pay...
Are we seeing evidence of a startup slowdown?
Based on our look at recent PitchBook data and what we’re hearing, we’re in what could be the early stages of a venture slowdown.
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex and Kell scour the news and rec...
TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
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Mobility mavens, do you have your sights set on attending TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 but buying your pass keeps slipping down your to-do list? Well, listen up. This is the last week that you can sa...
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
Shoreline founder and CEO Anurag Gupta was in charge of infrastructure at AWS for eight years prior to launching his company. He was responsible for making sure there were systems in place to respo...
EnquireLabs aims to pull back the curtain on consumer behavior
EnquireLabs is uncoupling questions from each other so they can be asked over time, post-purchase.
Pixxel takes orbital imagery hyperspectral with $25M A round
Orbital imagery is one of the hot categories of the new space industry, but there’s more to it than meets the (human) eye. Pixxel has raised $25 million to launch a constellation of satellite...
Brain.space remakes the EEG for our modern world (and soon, off-world)
Figuring out what’s going on in the brain is generally considered to be somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible. One major challenge is that the best ways to do so are room-sized...
TC Sessions: Climate 2022
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Treeswift is using drones to monitor forests
Over the past decade, drones have become an increasingly important tool for forest monitoring. They’re a fast and effective way to collect a lot of data in one go, without upsetting the natural bal...
Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar
The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury has announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of for...
Eksab gets $3M to scale its fantasy football platform across MENA and Africa
Football or soccer, the latter commonly used in the US, is the most popular and watched sport globally with over five billion football fans according to its apex governing body, FIFA. While the Wor...
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Sea’s Shopee shutting down India operations
Singapore’s giant Sea said on Monday it is shutting down its e-commerce business, Shopee, in India, months after the firm began recruiting sellers in the country. The announcement follows Ind...
Apple TV+ becomes the first streaming service to win a Best Picture Oscar with “CODA”
Apple TV+ has beat out Netflix to become the first streaming service to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, with “CODA’s” triumph. “CODA” actor Troy Kotsur also won the best supporting actor t...
Australian fintech Zepto raises $25M AUD Series A to enhance payment infrastructure
Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it has raised a $25 million AUD Series A (about 18.8 million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Deca...
TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
Meet your co-founder or find your next gig at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
Engineers, coders and product designers, lend us your ears! TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California. This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobi...
Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch
It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch, a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Comatch originally sta...
Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me rif...
We keep trying to reinvent startup accelerators
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Critiquing the value of a startup accelerator and demo days h...
This Week in Apps: Google’s alternative billing, Instagram’s chronological feeds, digital driver’s licenses
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a...
Are we about to see a unicorn selloff?
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up her...