Jenna Routenberg 2023-03-23 07:30:01 techcrunch.com Sanjay Reddy is a co-founding partner of Unlock Venture Partners, a firm focused on early-stage technology investments in Los Angeles and Seattle. More than 102,000 workers in U.S.-based tech companies have …
YouTube shutting down Indian social commerce app Simsim
Manish Singh 2023-03-23 05:33:08 techcrunch.com YouTube is shutting down its live social commerce app Simsim less than two years after acquiring the Indian startup but insists that it’s committed to building “a seamless shopping experience for …
Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers
Ron Miller 2023-03-22 10:00:16 techcrunch.com Developers building front-end Jamstack web applications often struggle to build identity with traditional API tools. With the approach growing in popularity, the founders of Clerk decided to focus their startup on …
CodiumAI is using generative AI to help developers build code logic tests automatically
Ron Miller 2023-03-22 10:05:02 techcrunch.com Over his two decades of experience in the tech industry, CodiumAI co-founder and CEO Itmar Friedman has personally experienced the pain of building test suites to check his code logic. He …
Amazon expands Fire TV lineup with more QLED models, entry-level 2-Series TVs and new markets
Sarah Perez 2023-03-22 10:00:50 techcrunch.com As competition among smart TV makers heats up, Amazon today is introducing an expanded Fire TV lineup which now includes more sizes for its top-of-the-line Omni QLED series as well as …
F3C puts its investment spin on consumer brands with new $25M fund
Christine Hall 2023-03-22 07:00:39 techcrunch.com The Family Fund & Founder Community, which goes by F3C, announced $25 million in new capital commitments and its focus on becoming the largest community of founders that co-invest in the …
Daily Crunch: Bing allows users to generate images using ‘very latest DALL-E models’
Christine Hall 2023-03-21 18:05:47 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday Crunch, you beautiful, strong, and smart …
Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-21 11:42:13 techcrunch.com At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific …
SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell
Walter Thompson 2023-03-21 12:08:42 techcrunch.com Ryan Neu is the founder and CEO of Vendr, a SaaS purchase platform. Previously, he was a B2B SaaS sales leader at both InVision and HubSpot. More posts by this contributor …
Two is bringing a consumer-like experience to B2B payments
Ron Miller 2023-03-21 08:47:06 techcrunch.com When individuals make purchases online, they place items in the digital shopping cart and use a credit or debit card to complete the transaction instantly. Businesses operate differently, typically looking to …
Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-21 09:00:34 techcrunch.com Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, …
Apple Pay is now available in South Korea
Kate Park 2023-03-21 02:57:00 techcrunch.com After months of regulatory delays, Apple users in South Korea finally saw the launch of Apple Pay today. As with other markets, Apple’s wallet and payment service in Korea will work …
Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable
Romain Dillet 2023-03-21 01:00:00 techcrunch.com French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs …
Daily Crunch: Amazon CEO says laying off 9,000 more workers ‘is best for the company long-term’
Christine Hall 2023-03-20 18:05:15 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. 🚚 Trucking is a vital industry and yet …
For tech titans, AI prominence is the new measuring stick
Alex Wilhelm 2023-03-20 11:30:15 techcrunch.com For many tech companies, investors are applying a new valuation method that has caught our eye: AI proficiency. The current wave of AI hype has two main flavors that I’m interested …
Consumer electronics reseller Reebelo adds to Series A as it lays down roots in US
Christine Hall 2023-03-20 08:01:38 techcrunch.com The global circular economy, comprising the sale of secondhand and refurbished goods, was valued at about $339 billion in 2022 and is poised to more than double by 2026. Much of …
Emerging managers hope the new SVB offers the same support to new VCs
Rebecca Szkutak 2023-03-19 12:00:50 techcrunch.com Before it crashed, Silicon Valley Bank was known to many startups and venture firms as the place to park their money or take out a capital line. But for emerging managers, …
Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) 2022-03-12 06:54:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products? In this Sellfy review, we’ll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let …
TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) 2022-07-13 11:25:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most …
Founders, don’t put all your cash in one basket
Anna Heim 2023-03-18 13:00:11 techcrunch.com W elcome 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 …
To my infinite chagrin, we’re probably not getting tech IPOs until later this year
Alex Wilhelm 2023-03-18 11:00:25 techcrunch.com But there are reasons to be optimistic we’ll get a good crop of public offerings The IPO market thus far in 2023 has been a goose egg, and we probably won’t …
Corporate venture capital: How to pitch| TechCrunch
Rebecca Szkutak 2023-03-18 10:00:54 techcrunch.com This is what they look for Amid the venture industry’s funding slowdown in 2022, nontraditional investors like hedge funds and private equity firms ran for the hills. Many assumed that corporate …
Rawr? Green Li-ion recharges with $20.5M to scale its recycling tech
Harri Weber 2023-03-17 14:20:33 techcrunch.com Green Li-ion says its battery recycling machines are the “size of a small house,” so it’s no wonder the Singapore-based startup needed to top up on funds. It’d only raised about …
Elemental aims to pump $43M into climate startups with ‘deep community impact’
Harri Weber 2023-03-17 12:17:23 techcrunch.com Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate-tech startups including BlocPower and ChargerHelp, says it’s “doubling down” in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank‘s collapse. Elemental intends to pump $43 million more into climate-tech …
SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity
Ingrid Lunden 2023-03-17 08:40:06 techcrunch.com One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries, SVB Financial has taken the next inevitable …
You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think
Haje Jan Kamps 2023-03-17 09:00:41 techcrunch.com Nonprofit FORGE is bringing ‘nearshoring’ to US startups There’s a persistent theory in hardware that manufacturing overseas is the cheaper/better/more efficient option. You manufacture there, assemble somewhere else, and finally …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription launches in India
Jagmeet Singh 2023-03-17 02:34:33 techcrunch.com ChatGPT Plus, the subscription service to access OpenAI’s text-generating AI, is now available in India. ChatGPT Plus features GPT-4, the refined AI model that OpenAI launched earlier this week. The paid …
Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe
Manish Singh 2023-03-17 01:09:23 techcrunch.com PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent weeks despite the market slump, as the …
Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all
Christine Hall 2023-03-16 18:05:01 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! An agreement among a group …
YouTube TV hikes price to $72.99 per month due to rising ‘content costs’
Aisha Malik 2023-03-16 13:19:58 techcrunch.com YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month. The new monthly price is an $8 increase from the current $64.99 monthly fee. …
Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-16 11:00:44 techcrunch.com Cloud costs remain a top concern for organizations. According to a recent Anodot survey, 50% of businesses are struggling to control them, in part because they lack visibility into their cloud …
SVB collapse forces African startups to rethink their banking options
Annie Njanja 2023-03-16 03:54:26 techcrunch.com The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture …
Dear Sophie: How can I return to the United States as a founder?
Walter Thompson 2023-03-15 23:00:54 techcrunch.com Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all …
Daily Crunch: T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile’s parent company in a deal worth up to $1.35B
Christine Hall 2023-03-15 18:05:43 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hellooooo, and welcome to the Wednesday Crunch! SVB’s …
The bizarre trailer for Peacock’s new series, ‘Mrs. Davis,’ features a war against AI
Lauren Forristal 2023-03-15 15:40:20 techcrunch.com Peacock released yesterday the official trailer for its upcoming original series, “Mrs. Davis,” a peculiar yet hilarious take on artificial intelligence and a nun (played by “G.L.O.W.” actress Betty Giplin) that …
Ghost debuts an anonymous group messaging app with ChatGPT baked in
Sarah Perez 2023-03-15 13:21:49 techcrunch.com Anonymous social apps have a history of devolving into bullying and harassment, ultimately leading to their failure. But a new startup called Ghost believes that putting in extra guardrails around the …
AI’s ascendance seems unfazed by SVB mess
Alex Wilhelm 2023-03-15 10:30:21 techcrunch.com Good morning, Exchange crew! This installment will be brief because I have to finish prepping for today’s TechCrunch Live with Arianna Huffington of Thrive Global and Mamoon Hamid of Kleiner Perkins. …
T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile in $1.35 billion deal
Aisha Malik 2023-03-15 09:47:11 techcrunch.com T-Mobile is acquiring Mint Mobile, the budget-friendly wireless provider partially owned by Ryan Reynolds in a deal valued at up to $1.35 billion, the company announced on Wednesday. The move indicates …
Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway
Jenna Routenberg 2023-03-15 07:00:39 techcrunch.com Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. Growth at all costs is out — and cutting burn and extending runway is in. And now that many startups are …