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Taking the pulse on the Northeast seed market with Techstars’ Kerty Levy
From 2021 to 2022, overall deal count in the Northeast was down around 25%. It might not be surprising, but it is quite stark.
AI scares the bejesus out of me
Welcome to this week's edition of Startups Weekly.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck
Here's a full teardown of Faye's 19-slide pitch deck with which it raised a $10 million Series A round.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a bot
We may be so comprehensively copulated at this moment in time, that digging our way out might prove impossible. Brew a cup of coffee and take a breath; this isn't going to be pretty.
How to write the perfect cold email to investors
Yes, warm intros are the best way to approach investors and should ideally be your Plan A. But what if you can't get one of those?
Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts
If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history — all the components you might need, at your fingertips. Volition just raise
Well that’s one way to hire a new CEO
Welcome to Startups Weekly, with your shiny, newly minted host, yours sincerely. If you’ve seen my name on TechCrunch, it’s probably because of my popular Pitch Deck Teardown series, where I take
Nuwa Pen launches with misleading Kickstarter campaign
Back at CES in Las Vegas in January this year, I previewed the Nuwa Pen; a three-camera-containing ballpoint pen that promises to turn your scribbles into digital notes and then apply OCR and AI smart
Pitch Deck Teardown: Ageras’ $36M Private Equity deck
Today, we're looking at Ageras' pitch deck, which it used to raise a $35 million private equity round to further expand its relatively late-stage product portfolio.
To hire your first startup employee, begin with a list of 1,500 people
Your first hire as a startup is more like a fishing expedition, one made much harder because nobody has heard of you or your company yet.
Tangible wants to scale up construction decarbonization
The real estate industry is a bit of a greenhouse gas powerhouse, responsible for 40% of all global emissions. A quarter of that comes from building materials, and Tangible has had enough. The compan
This European startup is installing 50 traffic-counting sensors across San Francisco
Belgian startup Telraam designed a device that lets anyone point out of a window a camera-like device that uses on-board tech to count the number of road users. It is currently installing a network of
How to get warm introductions to investors
A vanishingly small number of investors will look at any pitch. For most investors, though, you'll need to get your foot in the door to be heard.
Pale Blue Dot continues investing in its climate vision, with a second $100M fund
Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021, and after deploying i
Daily Crunch: For second consecutive quarter, millions of subscribers drop Disney+ Hotstar
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Fibery’s $5.2M Series A deck
Fibery raised its round with a 15-slide deck and shared the whole thing with TechCrunch+. That'll give us a good idea of how it landed its $5.2 million investment.
Canon sidles up to vloggers with PowerShot V10
Who says compact cameras are dead? Well, the market does, actually; the mobile phone has all but killed off the category altogether, so it’s interesting to see Canon take another stab at the mar
Daily Crunch: OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI receive half of Sound Ventures’ $240M AI fund
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with fusion power starting in 2028
Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had secured $2.2 billion of funding to help it develop cleaner, safer energy at a comm
With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture
Dutch startup Farmless has today announced that it has raised a €1.2 million pre-seed equity round at an undisclosed valuation to bring to our tables proteins created without the need for traditiona