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Startup pledges to ‘deliver a cup of coffee’s worth of energy in just three sprays’

VAE Labs is slated to launch direct-to-consumer in March and into New York bodegas in late summer.

Can VCs game crypto out of this downturn?

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at Musk holding onto doge. This week, we’re talking about where all of this crypto VC money is possibly gonna go. To get this in your inbox e

Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids

The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been i

Web3 digital identity startup Unstoppable Domains said to seek funding at $1 billion valuation

Unstoppable Domains, a popular blockchain naming system provider, is putting together a funding round at a valuation of $1 billion, three people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup i

Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M to help satellite operators navigate space traffic

It’s getting a little crowded in low Earth orbit. Between the proliferation of small-scale satellites, massive constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink and an ever-growing collection of space junk,

Lawtrades aims to change how your company utilizes legal resources

Its technology enables legal professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to available work, monitor projects and pay through the platform.

Tim Draper leads $6M Series A in pee-testing wellness tracker, Vivoo

Billionaire VC Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) has led a $6 million Series A in wellness tracking startup, Vivoo. Also participating in the funding round is ONCE Ventures, Revo Capital, 500 Startup

Lantern is a startup looking to ignite a conversation about how to die well

America is a land of paperwork, and nowhere is that more obvious than at the end of someone’s life. Advanced care directives have to be carefully disseminated to healthcare providers and strictly fo

Austin-based SourceDay closes $12.5 million for its supply chain management software

Austin-based SourceDay, which sells supply chain management software, said it raised $12.5 million in its latest round of financing. The company developed software to manage the relationship between c

Near Space Labs provides unmatched high-resolution imaging using stratospheric satellites

Imaging is one of the key markets in the emerging space tech industry, and for good reason — there’s a proven and robust demand for imaging and Earth observation data among government, pri

JetPack Aviation raises $2M to build the prototype of its flying motorcycle

Flying cars are fine — but why use a car when you can have a motorcycle instead? YC-backed startup JetPack Aviation wants to answer that question with the world’s first flying motorcycle,

Tiger Global is in talks to invest in cryptocurrency unicorn Coinbase at $8B valuation

Coinbase may raise up to $500 million at an $8 billion valuation. The cryptocurrency trading platform has also announced two new high-level hires.

Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong: ‘I’d love to run a public company’

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, wants to take his company public — maybe on the blockchain. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, Armstrong dished on his ambit

Wi-Fi sharing community Instabridge picks up backing from Draper Associates

Swedish startup <a target="_blank" href="http://instabridge.com/">Instabridge</a>, a Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, has picked up $1 million in new funding. Noteworthy for a European startup

Tim Draper has raised $190 million for his newest venture fund

In late 2013, Tim Draper left the decades-old firm he’d co-founded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might be back some day. Specifically, he told this reporter, “I am not l

Stampery Now Lets You Certify Documents Using The Blockchain And Your Real Identity

Shortly after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/stampery-leverages-the-blockchain-to-certify-all-your-documents/">participating</a> in our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF, <a target="_b

Searchandise Commerce Raises $7 Million From Madrona Venture Group And Others

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/searchandise.png" class="shot2" /><a href="http://www.searchandise.net/">Searchandise Commerce</a>, an online media network for product manufa