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If the earliest investors keep going earlier, what will happen?
There’s a clash happening in the early-stage market. In one world, late-stage investors are reacting to tech stonk corrections by clamoring toward the early-stage investment world, forcing seed inv...
USV quietly announces $625M in fresh funding for ‘both Web2 and Web3’ teams
Union Square Ventures (USV), the 19-year-old, New York-based venture firm, has raised $275 million for its eighth early-stage fund and $350 million for its fourth opportunity fund, the firm announc...
Daily Crunch: Musk’s Twitter purchase plan calls for new CEO, monetization strategies, job cuts
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Jack Dorsey says he’s against permanent Twitter bans, with an asterisk
On Friday afternoon, former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey turned to the platform that he co-created to speak about its future, days after the company was bought for $44 billion by Elon Musk. ...
Why a bipartisan embrace of crypto might never extend to Bitcoin
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction In our Chain Reaction podcast this week, Anita and I chatted with Sequoia Capital’s Shaun Maguire on why gamers are skeptical of NFTs and wher...
Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Emergence Capital’s Lotti Siniscalco breaks down how startup founders can create a killer pitch deck.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding product-market fit, pitch deck teardown, getting into YC
“Trust me with what you don’t know or what’s not working,” says GV investing partner Freerique Dame, “because once we invest, we’re going to have to work on this stuff anyway.R...
DoorDash extends gas rewards program for delivery people on its platform through August
DoorDash announced today that it’s expanding its gas rewards program for delivery people on its platform. The program enables delivery people using their DasherDirect card to receive 10% cash...
TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
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Watch Rocket Lab attempt to catch a falling booster with a helicopter today
Update: Delayed again due to weather, right after I hit publish. Come back on May 1! We don't usually give mother nature quite so much power over launch timing, but for our first helicopter cat...
Airbnb will no longer offer COVID-19-related refunds beginning May 31
Airbnb today announced that it will soon no longer offer refunds for COVID-19-related circumstances, including cases where a guest or host becomes sick with COVID-19 — reflecting an update to...
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Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M
Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest on making AI more reliable and explainable. Its $124 m...
Amazon stock plunges to two-year low following first-quarter loss
Amazon stock plunged to a two-year low as shares slid as much as 12% on Friday morning after the company reported its first-quarter results yesterday. The company reported a loss of $3.84 billion, ...
Vyoma is the latest player seeking to prevent satellite collisions with space junk
As you might’ve heard, it’s getting a little crowded in space, between thousand-satellite constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink and the millions of pieces of space junk accumulated from decades of ...
Charged with billions in capital, meet the 9 startups developing tomorrow’s batteries today
Today’s batteries are better in every respect than those made five years ago, but they still leave much to be desired. What’s needed are some breakthroughs.
TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
Aurora’s Sterling Anderson and FedEx’s Rebecca Yeung discuss the future of autonomous trucking at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
When the CEO of FedEx, the global leader in logistics, promises “an enormous effort towards autonomous trucks” this summer, wisdom — conventional or otherwise — says listen up, things are about to ...
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How Lydia wants to make payments more personal and social
Yesterday, fintech startup Lydia unveiled a brand new design for its financial super app. And it’...
TC Sessions: Climate 2022
CEOs at AMP Robotics, Novoloop and Nth Cycle will discuss disrupting recycling at TC Sessions: Climate
Recycling is an essential — if not particularly glamorous — part of fighting climate change. It’s no secret that the world has a serious trash problem. The U.S. alone generates 292.4 mi...
Roku experiences slow growth with only 1.1 million accounts added in first quarter
Roku’s first quarter of 2022 shows signs of slowdown, particularly with a slowing of total net revenue and subscriber growth, which was below what analysts estimated. There was a significant ...
Elon Musk has reportedly lined up a new Twitter CEO, shared ideas for monetizing tweets
Elon Musk has lined up a new CEO for Twitter and told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition offer about his plans to monetize tweets, according to a new report from Reuters. A ...
Amazon still undisputed king of public cloud, but Microsoft is creeping closer
It’s not exactly shocking news at this point that the cloud infrastructure market had another standout quarter. After the big three vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — report...
