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Transportation
Aston Martin taps Lucid to help develop electric vehicles
1:40 am PDT • June 26, 2023
Lucid Group, the U.S. automaker that produces the luxury all-electric Air sedan, will supply Aston Martin with powertrain components and battery technology for future electric vehicle models, the companies said…
Venture
French VC firm Frst reaches $80 million first close for its new seed fund
9:00 pm PDT • June 25, 2023
Frst, the Paris-based VC firm with no vowel in its name, is in the process of raising its second fund. The firm has already reached a first closing of €72…
Startups
utu raises $33M to help travelers get more from tax-free shopping
7:56 pm PDT • June 25, 2023
utu, a travel tech company that helps flyers get more out of their tax-free shopping, announced today it has raised a $33 million Series B from investors, including SC Ventures.…
Fintech
TreasurySpring raises $29M to expand its investment platform aimed at businesses with excess cash
4:17 pm PDT • June 25, 2023
Of the many issues highlighted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, one big one was the liability of having too much cash sitting in too few bank accounts. Today…
Transportation
Rivian adopts Tesla charging standard, Cruise adds Android and Ford lands a $9.2B loan
1:54 pm PDT • June 25, 2023
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox.…
Featured Article
The 2023 Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED is a pint-sized powerhouse with a gorgeous display
Asus is stretching the boundaries of what’s possible with thin and light portable PCs, and the 2023 Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED sets a high bar for what’s possible in an ultraportable. The computer weighs in at just 2.2 lb, and it’s only 0.39 inches thick — small enough that it’s a negligible addition to…
1:51 pm PDT • June 25, 2023
Buyers and sellers are coming to a consensus on startup valuations which is the first step to jump starting the late-stage market.
Featured Article
Designers hated Figma’s collaborative design tool at first, but grew to love it
Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, sending files for review to the various stakeholders involved, then making changes based on feedback…
8:00 am PDT • June 25, 2023
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’re back after a brief hiatus, with lots of fintech news, including Robinhood’s latest acquisition, Plaid’s newest product…
Social
OceanGate fires a whistleblower, hackers threaten to leak Reddit data, and Marvel embraces AI art
1:15 pm PDT • June 24, 2023
Hello, lovelies, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech. For many folks, this workweek was a day shorter, thanks to the…
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Biotech & Health
Deal Dive: Caraway shows what else digital health can do
9:00 am PDT • June 24, 2023
Caraway, which looks to provide supplemental telehealth services to Gen Z, has raised a $16.75 million Series A round.
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in…
Fintech
How one software engineer is turning Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse story into a musical
7:00 am PDT • June 24, 2023
Mauricio Costa was inspired by stories about the bank’s demise and is giving them a gospel and hip-hop treatment in a new musical.
Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment…
Featured Article
Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison
Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible for the breach will now serve time in federal prison. Joseph James O’Connor, 24, was sentenced Friday in a New York federal court to five years in…
1:43 pm PDT • June 23, 2023
With regulators looking closely, it’s not a stretch to wonder if the deal will ever happen. But if it does, would the deal be a net-positive for Figma?
With all this possibility, can such an amazing technology also be bad? Some of the concerns around AI platforms are legitimate.
Transportation
Washington could be the next state to require Tesla charging standard
12:35 pm PDT • June 23, 2023
Washington state plans to require companies to support Tesla’s electric vehicle charging plug in order to tap into federal funds. The pending rule is the latest domino to fall in…
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday afternoon. This week, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the implications of artificial…
