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Consumer, culture, and creators with Erin and Sara Foster at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Two of the industry’s most famous sisters, Erin and Sara Foster, sit down alongside business partner Phil Schwarz at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to talk about consumer investing, culture curation, and…
While some tech companies have lofty goals to transform drug discovery through AI or to mine metals from asteroids, others set out to solve very…
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From dinners with Travis Kalanick to fired after maternity leave: One of CloudKitchens’ earliest employees is suing
Isabella Vincenza, one of CloudKitchens’ earliest employees, never imagined she would be suing her now-former employer. Hired as a full-time salesperson in 2018, she became a mainstay at President’s Club dinners hosted by CEO Travis Kalanick at his Bel Air home throughout 2020 and 2021. These dinners were prized, invite-only…
Gamebeast is a live operations tooling platform that lets developers modify games without needing to release a new version or interrupt an ongoing game.
Do you remember what life was like before the cloud? Before this AI revolution? Prukalpa Sankar, the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlan, sat down with…
The Series A comes about a year after 11x.ai raised a $2 million seed round led by Project A Ventures.
Alex Parmley has been thinking about building his latest company, ORNG, since he was working on his last company, Phood. Launched in 2018, Phood was a payments app that let…
What could be more frightening than Friday the 13th? How about a realization that AI is in its awkward tween stage? At least, it was…
Fearless Fund has settled its case with the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), agreeing to shut down its Strivers Grant program.
Hormones play a massive role in when and how easily women can get pregnant, but research and resources in this area are lacking. Mira is…
Mangomint seeks to make it easier for spa and salon owners to run their businesses.
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Portex founder Brittany Ennix learned the importance of supply chains from Uber and Flexport
Brittany Ennix launched Portex, a company that allows SMBs to connect with freight partners and manage shipments and operations in one place.
Fast-forward to today, Slauson & Co. remains even more committed to the mission of inclusivity in its funding, and it seems limited partners have its back.
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From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companies
Palm launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier.
Microplastics are everywhere. Everywhere. They are in our waters, in our food and even crossing blood barriers to enter our brains. Sarah Paiji Yoo launched…
The rise of AI has consumed the arts, just as it has Silicon Valley. Everyone is pondering: Will AI replace me?
By Rotation has a partnership with Airbnb to let those who’ve booked an Airbnb receive a complimentary outfit rental.
For months, a tech forum ran wild asking if the Converge 2 accelerator program actually happened. We finally found out.
Eric Ly has a storied career: He started as an engineering intern at IBM, and 20 years later found himself co-starting and serving as the…
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The biggest trends young NYC investors are bullish about — and why
As twenty-something-year-old investors enter the venture landscape, they spot new trends that could become the next multibillion-dollar tech businesses.
After two years of building the company, the company quietly launched its beta in June and is officially announcing it today, right here, in TechCrunch.
Colorful Capital’s co-founders, William Burckart and Megan Kashner, declined to comment.
Right now, there’s a mad scramble to capitalize on AI.
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How VC Pippa Lamb ended up on ‘Industry’ — one of the hottest shows on TV
Season 3 of “Industry” focuses on the fictional bank Pierpoint and blends the worlds — and drama — of tech, media, government and finance.
The one and only Parker Conrad stopped by TechCrunch’s Found this week to talk to us about his company Rippling, as well as the X…
It racked up around 18,000 users, made 8,000 matches, and gathered a lot of insights on the current dating scene.
Techstars is cutting 17% of its staff and will end its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed AdvancingCities program once the fund is completely deployed.
The ex-Clubhouse, Netflix employees raised $1.65M for an app that combines social media, networking, and dating.
When Nick Frosst was in college over a decade ago, he was worried he was a little late to the AI game. Frosst, a co-founder…
The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups.
