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Sequoia’s Jess Lee will demystify product-market fit at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024
Build something people want. It’s a simple concept — and one that Y Combinator loves to repeat — but one ...
Flush with cash, French fintech unicorn Qonto acquires Regate
While many entrepreneurs are currently facing the harsh reality of a VC funding crunch, Qonto isn’t one of them. The ...
As mega-rounds become rarer, energy startups are powering up
The largest funding rounds raised by startups are becoming rarer and rarer. For upstart companies working on the future of ...
NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare lays off 13% of staff as web3 gaming continues to sputter
Web3-enabled fantasy sports platform Sorare laid off 22 employees based in its New York office in February. The move comes ...
Showee, a smart shower startup, shines a light on accessibility
Showee’s shower is designed for people with disabilities, both physical and intellectual. But Showee has another selling point: Water savings ...
Applications are open for the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200
Calling all early-stage founders: Are you ready? TechCrunch is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in the ...
a16z-backed Apex Space’s first satellite ‘healthy’ on orbit
Apex Space just moved one step closer to its goal of upending satellite bus manufacturing, with the startup announcing on ...
Satellite servicing tech startup, led by former head of Ukraine’s space agency, lands $4M
Kurs Orbital, a startup founded by Ukrainian space industry veterans, has closed a new tranche of funding to accelerate the ...
OpenAI fires back at Musk, and Monzo raises a megaround
In today’s episode of Equity, we talk about OpenAI bringing receipts to its tussle with Musk, Monzo’s big fundraise, a ...
Babylon Micro-Farms is bringing vertical farming to K-12 classes
In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Oleson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one ...
k-ID launches a solution that helps game developers comply with ever-changing child safety regulations
Making a video game successful is already hard. Doing so while complying with the growing number of child safety laws ...
LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use
UK startup Fluent has closed a $7.5M seed round to apply LLMs to business databases, making them far easier to ...
Cultivated Biosciences poised to take its plant-based cream to market in 2025
The company went public in December with its first proof-of-concept coffee creamer that remains stable when added to hot coffee ...
BRKZ, a construction-tech startup eyeing MENA, emerges from stealth with $8M
Saudi Arabia is poised to become one of the largest global construction hubs owing to its trillion-dollar infrastructure and the ...
AI could be the solution for bureaucracy, with Emilie Poteat from Advocate
Founders have spent a lot of time over the past few years trying to build practical consumer use cases for ...
