Christine Hall 2022-07-06 18:05:26 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. Greetings, and happy Wednesday! I had to check the calendar before…
Lauren Simonds 2022-07-06 11:00:39 techcrunch.com Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-07-06 16:00:52 techcrunch.com The startup market is global in footprint, varied in focus, diverse in business model and constantly evolving. The venture capital market, meanwhile, is slower to molt, but it’s also changed in the last decade. Startups…
Lauren Simonds 2022-07-06 14:00:08 techcrunch.com Heading to TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco? Great, we can’t wait to see you! In the meantime, take a few minutes right now and head to the polls. And by that…
Ram Iyer 2022-07-06 14:00:21 techcrunch.com Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects…
Lauren Forristal 2022-07-06 12:12:50 techcrunch.com As part of the promotion for Amazon’s annual Prime Day shopping event, Prime members were given an exclusive 60-second sneak peek at Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings…
Anna Heim 2022-07-06 11:17:21 techcrunch.com From the next big thing to rueful error, the global SPAC market has had a big few years. So-called blank check companies, which take a skeleton corporation public with the aim of later merging…
Rita Liao 2022-07-06 05:04:30 techcrunch.com Nothing, the consumer tech company started by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei and known for its aggressive marketing, unveils a non-fungible token project called Black Dot. Its fans are skeptical. Black Dot is a video…
Jaclyn Trop 2022-07-06 10:00:59 techcrunch.com The market has cooled on SPACs, but Polestar has the network and know-how Polestar, the EV subbrand from Volvo and Geely that launched last week on the Nasdaq at a $20 billion valuation, didn’t…
Kyle Wiggers 2022-07-06 08:00:25 techcrunch.com IBM today announced that it acquired Databand, a startup developing an observability platform for data and machine learning pipelines. Details of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Tel Aviv-based Databand had raised $14.5 million prior…
Christine Hall 2022-07-06 07:03:28 techcrunch.com If your service-based business is still collecting paper checks and only knows clients by their first name, Finli has an app for you. After building mobile technology for fintechs and payment companies for the…
Ivan Mehta 2022-07-06 05:27:24 techcrunch.com India’s anti-money laundering agency raided more than 40 offices of Chinese phone-maker Vivo across the country on Tuesday over allegations of money laundering, the latest in a series of developments illustrating the growing murky…
Maggie Stamets 2022-07-05 14:00:40 techcrunch.com Welcome Back to Found, the TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. It’s rare we get to speak to someone who has been working at their company for 19 years so…
Paul Sawers 2022-07-05 18:00:27 techcrunch.com The burgeoning low-code and no-code movement is showing little sign of waning, with numerous startups continuing to raise sizable sums to help the less-technical workforce develop and deploy software with ease. Arguably one of the…
Kate Park 2022-07-05 22:39:12 techcrunch.com South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT, one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. Last…
Harri Weber 2022-07-05 21:49:00 techcrunch.com Over the weekend, Tesla showed off its latest gadget: a solar trailer, featuring extendable panels, a satellite internet terminal and even a lick of matte-black paint. Tesla may have designed the trailer to add…
Lauren Forristal 2022-07-05 19:48:15 techcrunch.com HBO Max will cease new original programming in parts of Europe and the company will also shut down Cinemax’s TV Everywhere platform, Cinemax Go, as its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery moves through a…
Mary Ann Azevedo 2022-07-05 18:21:27 techcrunch.com Loft, a Brazilian proptech unicorn, has laid off about 380 employees, or 12% of its workforce, the company announced today. The layoff marks the company’s second round of cuts this year so far.…
Jaclyn Trop 2022-07-05 17:57:01 techcrunch.com Lawyers representing two former Tesla employees who were terminated in mid-June have filed an emergency motion asking a judge to prohibit the EV automaker from forcing workers to sign releases in exchange for less…
Ram Iyer 2022-07-05 13:30:40 techcrunch.com John Weaver is CEO of 22 Ventures, an angel firm that offers founders connections, entrepreneurial experience and a genuine concern for their well-being. For the first time in more than a year, venture capital…
Tim De Chant 2022-07-05 15:30:50 techcrunch.com Rhode Island leaped ahead in the race to 100% renewable power last week as Governor Dan McKee signed a bill that would mandate the state reach the target by 2033, the most aggressive…
Rebecca Bellan 2022-07-05 14:30:40 techcrunch.com When you think about shared micromobility, Veo isn’t exactly the first company that comes to mind. It’s not as widespread as competitors like Voi, Tier and Lime, and it hasn’t raised nearly as much…
Kyle Wiggers 2022-07-05 14:00:41 techcrunch.com Voyantis, a startup developing tools to estimate a customer’s lifetime value, today emerged from stealth with $19 million in seed funding from Target Global, Square Peg, Schusterman Family Investments, Kaedan Capital and Operator Partners.…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-07-05 12:30:19 techcrunch.com Why not put capital to work when it's actually worth something? One easy complaint to make when it comes to venture capital is that it’s mostly not. Venture-ous, that is. It’s definitely capital. During…
Kate Park 2022-07-05 11:07:14 techcrunch.com Google has stopped providing updates to popular messaging app KakaoTalk in South Korea, according to a local report, after Kakao continued using an external payment link in its Android app, against Google’s new in-app…
Brian Heater 2022-07-05 08:00:09 techcrunch.com Some drone industry consolidation this morning as Ondas Holdings, the company behind Waltham, Massachusetts–based American Robotics announced its plans to acquire Airobotics. It’s admittedly been a few years since we covered the latter, when…
Manish Singh 2022-07-05 06:26:47 techcrunch.com Twitter has sued the Indian government to challenge some of its takedown orders, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, further escalating the tension between the American social giant and New Delhi. In…
Manish Singh 2022-07-05 04:25:37 techcrunch.com Glance, a subsidiary of adtech giant InMobi Group, is planning to launch its lock screen platform on Android smartphones in the U.S. within two months, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The…
Rita Liao 2022-07-05 02:42:54 techcrunch.com Remember Meizu, the once-promising competitor to Xiaomi? The Alibaba-backed Chinese smartphone maker is making a comeback — in a way — as it gets acquired by the founder of Geely, China’s largest private automaker…
Rebecca Bellan 2022-07-04 20:54:08 techcrunch.com Mumbai-based automaker Tata Motors wants to sell 50,000 electric vehicles by the end of the fiscal year ending March 31, the company’s chairperson Natarajan Chandrasekaran said during a shareholders’ meeting on Monday. In the…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-07-04 13:00:20 techcrunch.com Happy Monday. It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means that much of TechCrunch is on holiday. But as last week came to a close, several important pieces of data dropped that…
Haje Jan Kamps 2022-07-04 11:00:10 techcrunch.com A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. Your slide deck should only have an exit strategy slide if you’re running a…
Ivan Mehta 2022-07-04 09:00:07 techcrunch.com Over the weekend, TikTok wrote to Republican Senators to assure them that it’s working on a program called “Project Texas” to bolster data security for U.S.-based users. This was in response to the Senators’…