Natasha Mascarenhas

Natasha Mascarenhas

Senior Reporter

Natasha Mascarenhas was a senior reporter at TechCrunch covering early stage startups and venture capital trends. She also tracked the different networks that play into founder success, from loneliness to immigration. Before TechCrunch, Natasha reported on the same beat for Crunchbase News. She also has bylines in the Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, BostInno, and is proudly from New Jersey.

The Latest from Natasha Mascarenhas

A pivot, in this market‽

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas.  Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of m

The debate happening inside of every VC firm

Clearly, VC firms are landing on different conclusions while debating how to jump into AI during its nondebatable watershed moment.

Venture-backed everything for real-world problems, please

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex are closing out another news-fi

The Mint, started by Better Tomorrow Ventures, wants to be the accelerator fintech needs

Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The investor previously worked as a partner at 500, previously known as 500 Startups, wh

How do you know when it’s time to shut down?

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single pe

This app, backed by Marissa Mayer and Peter Thiel, is making texts more expressive

“The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves — text messages to be exact — deserve attention, too. Traina is the CEO and

Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype

Navin Chaddha, the storied investor running Mayfield Fund, doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of his peers. “Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an intervi

This week in tech acronyms: FRB and GPT

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s been

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is shaking up the edtech markets

Chegg’s dramatic post-earnings valuation flop will not be the last time that we see new AI tooling run headlong into existing enterprises.

Aaron Burr’s tech angle, blue skies and no photos at this time

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex got right into it &

The outside advantage that your investor may be interested in

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a duo, thin

As another startup bank partner collapses, tech feels the gap

In the wake of FRB's collapse, founders and investors continue to wonder: Where is the best place to protect important assets?

Ann Lai says she was fired from Bullpen Capital after helping deliver a $145M fund

Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and retaliatory” in a LinkedIn post publ

Pitch for the check you want 

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s gu

Is First Republic just a victim of SVB’s collapse?

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex were especially chat

Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff

Clubhouse, a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its staff. The startup’s co-founders made the decision in response to customer ha

Chief, a professional network for women leaders, cuts staff amid restructuring effort

Chief, a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a response to the economy and that the ou

Founders change their pitch

Now that it has been over a year since tech’s current period correction first began, founders are getting more innovative in how they approach tweaking their pitch.

Register now to attend today’s filming of TechCrunch Live with ClassDojo and SignalFire

Register for this TechCrunch Live right here. The show broadcasts live today, Wednesday, April 26 at 12 p.m. PDT. Sam Chaudhary takes his time. The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech consumer app that fo

A modern take on what an entrepreneur can, and should, spend their time on

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