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Hear why AtoB calls itself Stripe for trucking on TechCrunch Live

Trucking is a vital industry and yet the majority of operations are operating on outdated platforms. AtoB thinks it has the solution and co-founder Harshita Arora says the company is essentially Strip

TechCrunch Live Podcast: How to battle burnout and profit off human thriving, according to Thrive Global’s Ariana Huffington

On this week’s TechCrunch Live podcast, TechCrunch+ Editor In Chief, Alex Wilhelm, led the interview portion of our show. Alex spoke to Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid and Founder & CEO

Consumer electronics reseller Reebelo adds to Series A as it lays down roots in US

Reebelo has added embedded financial services, including a buyback program and device upgrade options, while its warranty program, ReebeloCare, grew 330% year over year.

Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning

Tavus enables companies to create "unique" videos tailored to a specific individual, based entirely on a single initial recording.

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest name

Emerging managers hope the new SVB offers the same support to new VCs

When it came to emerging managers, SVB went beyond just banking resources. These young VCs hope that support isn't lost.

To my infinite chagrin, we’re probably not getting tech IPOs until later this year

I don't want to promise anything, but it could be just a quarter or two until we are back to hammering on S-1 filings like it's 2021 again.

CVCs remained consistent investors in 2022

While different than traditional VCs, CVCs offer a potentially stable source of capital for startups amid the current downturn.

Daily Crunch: With just $2.2B in remaining liquidity, SVB’s parent company files for bankruptcy

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Rawr? Green Li-ion recharges with $20.5M to scale its recycling tech

Green Li-ion says its battery recycling machines are the “size of a small house,” so it’s no wonder the Singapore-based startup needed to top up on funds. It’d only raised abou

Elemental aims to pump $43M into climate startups with ‘deep community impact’

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate-tech startups including BlocPower and ChargerHelp, says it’s “doubling down” in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank‘s coll

Will software for CFOs create a bright spot in a battered fintech market?

The CFO stack has some investors quite excited, but the data so far describes a trend that may not be in these companies' favor.

Banking isn’t the only ‘single point of failure’ entrepreneurs should be rethinking

Silicon Valley Bank's collapse reminds us of the entrepreneurial art of balancing ambitious risk and necessary caution.

Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today, we’re celebrating Equity’s 6th birthday! Th

Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe

PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a move that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent weeks despite the market slump.

Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all

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‘BRB, storing my money in gold’: Founders scramble to figure out which banks are safe

While diversifying assets feels obvious in retrospect, actually following that bit of advice is harder than it seems.

Mistaking performance for competence

A year or two before launching Actuator, someone on staff floated the idea of my writing a weekly robotics newsletter. I balked at the suggestion. Surely, I suggested, we would be struggling to fill t

Everything you need to get caught up on the SVB crisis

A lot has happened with SVB, and unless it’s your job to edit the news, it’s possible you missed a slice of the saga, if not the entire story. Here’s what went down.

Bummed out from the last week? Here’s some bullish news for software companies

Amid the chaos, there are rays of good news: PagerDuty and UiPath posted impressive earnings reports, and software valuations bounced off recent lows.
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