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Fishy business: Rooser raises $23M for its seafood trading platform
The fishing market globally was worth $253 billion in 2021, and despite the controversy that swirls around the industry, that figure continues to grow. Today a startup that has built a platform to ...
Hear how Front raised serious cash from unconventional investors on TechCrunch Live
Front’s cap table reads like an honor role of investors. CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin raised funds from numerous Silicon Valley firms and individual investors. On April 27 she’s s...
Deep Science: AI simulates economies and predicts which startups receive funding
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column aims to collect some o...
Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A
Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz didn’t have a pitch deck to share on TechCrunch Live. That’s because Deel raised a total of $629 million without one.
A complete timeline of the Elon Musk-Twitter saga
It’s been a wild month of news for the social network that we collectively love to hate. In early April, Elon Musk took a bite out of Twitter, coming away with 9.2% of the company and plans to exer...
Fintech Roundup: Founders reinventing, startups buying and pre-seed a’growing
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...
3 questions about Coinbase’s NFT push
We want to know how fast Coinbase’s NFT marketplace can scale in the near term, its potential economic profile, and, finally, its long-term growth prospects.
This Week in Apps: Google bans call-recording apps, Snap’s Q1 and BeReal hype
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...
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Deal terms feel like dart boards these days
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. When Andreessen Horowitz unveiled its new early-stage startup...
If everything is the metaverse then the metaverse is nothing
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Super fans, franchises, and unique content could be the answer to reducing streaming churn
In today’s highly competitive streaming market, streaming services don’t just have to figure out how to attract users — they also have to find ways to keep them. Fandom’s “2...
DJ and crypto startup founder 3LAU explains the value behind music NFTs
When people think of NFTs, the first use case most of them likely think of is visual art. From Beeple’s $69 million sale of a digital collage at Christie’s to the Bored Apes Yacht Club ...
Scammers snatch up expired domains, vexing Google
Expired domains snapped up by scammers and black-hat SEO folks could erode the trust people have in Google.
Reliance calls off $3.4 billion deal with Future Group
Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire core parts of retail chain Future Group after the latter’s secured creditors rejected the offer earlier this week, Indi...
Europe seals a deal on tighter rules for digital services
In the small hours local time, European Union lawmakers secured a provisional deal on a landmark update to rules for digital services operating in the region — grabbing political agreement af...
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic is acquiring fellow robotic software firm Vicarious
Alphabet X-birthed Intrinsic made its big debut last September. The subsidiary looks to buck its parent company’s somewhat spotty robotics record with a software-first approach. Specifically, the c...
15 carbon removal projects score $1M each in climate Xprize milestone
A multi-year, $100 million Xprize competition for startups trying to remove or reverse carbon emissions has its first crop of big winners. Though the bulk of this Musk money won’t be given aw...
Block Head Jack Dorsey tells us what we already knew
Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder and current Block CEO, is no longer the payments firm’s “chief executive officer.” Instead, the executive is choosing to call himself “Bl...
Daily Crunch: Twitter to allow developers to build third-party apps
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
NLRB rules Activision Blizzard’s first union at Raven Software can vote for recognition
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled today that the first union at a major U.S. gaming company can file for a formal union election. In January, the quality assurance (QA) department of ...
