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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

In the world of manufacturing, the question is: How can I make sure that I’m building the right thing for the right audience?

Silicon Valley Bank’s crash is providing valuable lessons all over the world

This week, some of my colleagues took a deep dive into the effects on consumers, businesses, banks, investors, etc. — all over the world — showing just how connected the startup ecosystem really i

OpenAI unleashes GPT-4, SVB files for bankruptcy, and a PE firm acquires Pornhub

Welcome to Week in Review, folks, TechCrunch’s regular recap of the week in tech. GPT-4, OpenAI’s text- and image-understanding AI, might’ve dominated the headlines over the past few

Let’s talk about succession plans 

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. Maybe it’s t

This Week in Apps: AI-powered productivity apps, US weighs TikTok ban, SVB crash boosts crypto apps

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags as co

Founders, don’t put all your cash in one basket

Whether you are an individual or a company, it makes sense to have more than one bank. Yet, many startups don't.

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.

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Trucking is a vital industry and yet the majority of operations are operating on outdated platforms.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

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.

The Justice Department is investigating TikTok over journalist spying incident

The Biden administration has recently ramped up pressure on TikTok over national security concerns stemming from its ties to China, and apparently the Justice Department and the FBI are also applying

Pull Systems launches out of Up.Labs-Porsche partnership to tackle EV performance

When Porsche partnered with venture studio UP.Labs, the mission was to create six startups over three years all designed to solve the German automaker’s biggest problems and be compelling enough

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.

The Monarch could be the next big thing in Braille

For many people around the world, braille is their primary language for reading books and articles, and digital braille readers are an important part of that. The newest and fanciest yet is the Monarc

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

Glaze protects art from prying AIs

The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists to produce original art vs the speed generative AI models can now get the task done is one of the reasons why Glaze, an academic research projec

A $500 million term sheet in 12 hours: How Rippling struck a deal as SVB was melting down

As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad thought he’d seen it all. Still, he never imagined that there would be a run on Silicon Valley Bank that would

Strangeworks might be the first startup to rely on AI to create everything it brought to SXSW

TechCrunch+ roundup: 7 VCs who are taking pitches, AI best practices, zero-based budgeting

With SVB’s contagion contained, the VC community seems open to writing smallish checks for pre-revenue startups.

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.
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