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Margaux MacColl

Senior Reporter, TechCrunch

Margaux is a senior venture capital and startup reporter at TechCrunch. She was previously a tech culture reporter at The Information. You can reach her at margaux.maccoll@techcrunch.com.

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Startups

From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock
Margaux MacColl

7 hours ago
Startups

The AI industry’s ‘next big bet,’ and should we just buy Chrome?
Theresa Loconsolo

Kirsten Korosec

Devin Coldewey

Margaux MacColl

4 days ago 30 Min

Venture

Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year
Margaux MacColl

Nov 20, 2024
Venture

Las Vegas sheriff tells a16z partners what’s next on his wish list: AI for bodycams
Sean O'Kane

Margaux MacColl

Nov 19, 2024
Startups

‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth
Margaux MacColl

Nov 15, 2024
Fundraising

Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round
Margaux MacColl

Sean O'Kane

Nov 15, 2024

Fundraising

How two brothers went from growing up on a sailboat to making underwater military vehicles
Margaux MacColl

Nov 12, 2024
Featured

Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio
Margaux MacColl

Sean O'Kane

Nov 8, 2024
AI

Trump’s election throws tech regulation a curveball
Kirsten Korosec

Devin Coldewey

Margaux MacColl

Theresa Loconsolo

Nov 8, 2024 30 Min
In Brief

AI-powered parenting is here and a16z is ready to back it
Margaux MacColl

Nov 7, 2024

Startups

Flock Safety paid over $300M for 17-month-old drone startup Aerodome
Margaux MacColl

Oct 23, 2024
Startups

Investor FOMO returns, and what happened with WordPress and WP Engine?
Margaux MacColl

Anthony Ha

Devin Coldewey

Oct 18, 2024 36 Min
In Brief

Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion
Margaux MacColl

Oct 17, 2024
AI

From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup
Margaux MacColl

Oct 17, 2024

AI

Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
Margaux MacColl

Oct 11, 2024
Venture

AI ‘no one wants�� and Google’s potential breakup
Margaux MacColl

Devin Coldewey

Anthony Ha

Oct 11, 2024 30 Min
Startups

Shield AI’s founder on death, drones in Ukraine, and the AI weapon ‘no one wants’
Margaux MacColl

Oct 9, 2024
Venture

YC takes a bite out of PearAI, and French startups have a new home
Kirsten Korosec

Devin Coldewey

Margaux MacColl

Oct 4, 2024 31 Min

Hardware

Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’
Margaux MacColl

Oct 1, 2024
Hardware

Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.
Margaux MacColl

Oct 1, 2024
Startups

Green flags for defense tech and Silicon Valley’s longevity obsession
Kirsten Korosec

Devin Coldewey

Margaux MacColl

Sep 27, 2024 29 Min
Fintech

Former Brex COO who now heads unicorn fintech Figure says GPT is already upending the mortgage industry
Margaux MacColl

Sep 26, 2024

Venture

How one female VC is teaching kids about startups and women in tech
Margaux MacColl

Sep 24, 2024
Biotech & Health

Synex founder, once detained at the border with an 80-pound magnet, is building portable MRIs to test glucose
Margaux MacColl

Sep 22, 2024
Transportation

No, the FAA isn’t fining SpaceX because of Elon Musk’s politics, former FAA head says
Margaux MacColl

Sep 19, 2024
Hardware

Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from US Navy, DoD for 3D-printed rocket motors
Margaux MacColl

Sep 17, 2024

Venture

a16z’s Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games and Discord is the future
Margaux MacColl

Sep 2, 2024
Featured

Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups
Margaux MacColl

Sep 1, 2024
Venture

Pryzm is a new kind of defense tech startup: One that helps others win lucrative contracts
Margaux MacColl

Aug 28, 2024
Featured

Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city
Margaux MacColl

Sean O'Kane

Aug 23, 2024