Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast.

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Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay

Wonderschool, a startup that provides software and support to help individuals and local governments spin up childcare businesses, has acquired EarlyDay, which operates an early childhood educator mar

TechCrunch Minute: Robinhood’s credit card has arrived to take on Apple and any upcoming challengers

Robinhood’s new credit card was revealed Tuesday, and though it’s only available for Robinhood Gold members, the Gold Card does have a feature that’s spurring headlines: the ability

TechCrunch Minute: What Stability AI’s CEO departure means for other AI startups

What do you call an AI company that is suffering from very public gyrations regarding its business health, place in the market and leadership structure? Well, you might call it Stability AI. And no, t

TechCrunch Minute: Why the company behind Trump’s Truth Social joined the growing IPO trend

The Reddit and Astera Labs IPOs last week ate up a lot of media oxygen. And with good reason, the two tech IPOs priced well and traded with even more gusto. After a long dearth for technology offering

Spotify throws its hat in the edtech ring

Today on Equity, Alex talks stocks around the world, crypto prices, and the weekend's biggest news: The the exit of Stability AI's CEO, the EU's Digital Markets Act, Spotify's edtech push, why Liquid

Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

The question is whether Nvidia can sustain that growth to become a long-term revenue powerhouse like AWS has become for Amazon.

TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple over allegedly monopolistic smartphone practices. The federal agency is not alone in the matter, bringing 15 states and the District of Columbia into the

A $700M SAFE, IPOs are back and how one venture fund is transcending borders

Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday episode, in which we dig through the most criti

Wing Venture’s Sara Choi will dig into pitching VCs at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

Crafting the perfect venture capital pitch is so simple that there’s an industry of consultants to help founders get their decks in order. TechCrunch has a long-running series of Pitch Deck Tear

Reddit stock closes up nearly 48% on its first day of trading

Shares of social forum giant Reddit closed its first day of trading at $50.31, up nearly 48% from its IPO price of $34 per share. The company had indicated a target range of $31 to $34 per share in th

TechCrunch Minute: All about Microsoft’s mega AI push after it hired Inflection AI’s co-founders

Microsoft’s latest gambit to snag much of the human talent from Inflection AI is causing waves this week. Redmond has previously invested in the company, but is now absorbing much of its staff i

Astera Labs’ IPO pops 72% on first day, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high

Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company priced its IPO last night at $36 per share, above its raised price range. Astera’

TechCrunch Minute: Solana is ushering in a new round of memecoin mania

Blockchain is back and Bitcoin is hot, the Ethereum blockchain is seeing price gains, and lots of folks are stoked about ETFs. But lately, one less-mainstream blockchain is perhaps making the biggest

Astera Labs goes public, and the Inflection-Microsoft AI saga continues

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, focused on startup and venture

Astera Labs IPO will reveal how much investors want in on AI

While the technology world breathlessly awaits Reddit's public debut, another company you might never have heard of is about to go public: Astera Labs.

TechCrunch Minute: EV makers are struggling, and Fisker’s in a particularly precarious position

Fisker’s finances are back in the news after the company warned in February that it didn’t have enough cash to make it through its next year. The company said this week that it intends to

TechCrunch Minute: Why the AI world is gathering at Nvidia’s GTC 2024 event this week

Chip giant Nvidia is hosting a massive AI conference as part of its GTC event this week, which kicks off Monday. With a keynote planned from Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder, of the company best known

LinkedIn wants a piece of Wordle’s success

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Monday show, in which we take a look back at th

Rebecca Whiting will break down SAFEs, notes, and series seed financing at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

Raising capital sounds simple: You hand over shares, investors hand over cash, and everyone then gets back to work. The reality is a little bit more complicated. If you are selling equity, are you doi

TechCrunch Minute: A TikTok ban is looking more and more like impending reality

Well, that was fast. After a House subcommittee gave its assent to a bill that would force the divestment of TikTok or ban it in the United States, the House itself voted in the affirmative, albeit wi
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