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Elon’s big week
Hi! I’m Greg Kumparak. I’ll be heading up Week in Review for the foreseeable future, with your former host Lucas Matney diving into cryptoland with the launch of a newsletter and podcast c
Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup
At TechCrunch Early Stage, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, and why it's crucial to be "10x better" than the incumbents.
These Android features will help protect your digital privacy
Cybersecurity 101: These Android settings and features will help protect your privacy and security.
Slice and dice it all you want, that’s a seed round
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. There’s a clash happening in the early-stage market. In one
This Week in Apps: Elon buys Twitter, Snap Summit recap and an App Store cleanup
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a re
On putting toothpaste back into the tube
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Perceptron: AI mixes concrete, designs molecules, and thinks with space lasers
Welcome to Perceptron, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of AI news and research from around the world. Machine learning is a key technology in practically every industry now, and there’s far to
Affirm’s CTO talks transparency and the tech that makes BNPL possible
TechCrunch sat down with Libor Michalek, president of technology at Affirm, to understand just how the company differentiates itself from its plethora of competitors.
India seizes $725 million assets from Xiaomi unit over illegal remittances
India’s anti-money laundering agency said on Saturday it has seized assets worth about $725 million from Xiaomi India for breaching the country’s foreign exchange laws in a major blow to t
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 inve
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
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
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. In
Why a bipartisan embrace of crypto might never touch 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 where d
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."
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 ba
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 catch
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 th
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 mill