Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
Startups
Klarna’s Q1 results show that the fintech unicorn’s turnaround is in full swing
8:30 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Klarna managed to nab market share in a contracting market, keeping its own growth story afloat despite stiff headwinds.
Startups
UpCodes launches Copilot, an AI-based research assistant for building codes
8:00 am PDT • May 30, 2023
For more than seven years, UpCodes has been making the complicated world of building codes easier to understand for people like industry professionals and homeowners. Its platform includes a searchable…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday Tuesday…
Climate
Three climate technologies every investor should have in their portfolio
7:00 am PDT • May 30, 2023
There’s no way to create a definitive list of climate technologies to invest in, but here are three areas that deserve a closer look.
A database containing the details of almost half-a-million RaidForums users has leaked online, a year after the U.S. Department of Justice seized the notorious cybercrime forum. The leaked database was…
Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt…
AI
OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk
5:57 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis…
Apps
Portal’s Mac app helps users focus with immersive backgrounds and audio
5:00 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Productivity-enhancing app Portal has launched a Mac app. The company helps users regain focus and become more productive with immersive backgrounds and natural sounds. The service has been available through…
Transportation
Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats
5:00 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Serve Robotics, the Uber spinout that builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats. The Nvidia-backed startup will now deploy up to 2,000 of its cute…
Commerce
Wellplaece wants to put a smile on dentists’ face with new supply procurement marketplace
3:45 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Wellplaece’s takes in a client’s ordering data and then enables the customer to make those specific purchasing behaviors across a large network of suppliers via one shopping cart.
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Startups
BlackRock cuts Byju’s valuation by nearly two-thirds to $8.4 billion
3:32 am PDT • May 30, 2023
BlackRock, a minority investor in Byju’s, has yet again cut the valuation of its holding in the Bengaluru-based startup, this time to about $8.4 billion, even as the most valuable…
Featured Article
First they worked in tandem, now they’re in an e-bike patent suit
Grenoble-based eBikeLabs, a French startup that has been working on embedded software for electric bikes, is suing Cowboy for patent infringement and, more generally, copying eBikeLabs’ technology in its latest feature, AdaptivePower. Cowboy, the Belgian electric bike manufacturer, has refuted all the allegations and even said that eBikeLabs is running a smear campaign. There have…
3:10 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Enterprise
OMERS Growth Equity leads Carrum Health’s $45M Series B to expand cancer care
3:00 am PDT • May 30, 2023
Carrum Health CEO Sach Jain noted that 2022 “was a big year for us” that included nearly doubling its book of business.
After shutting down its food delivery business last year, Amazon India is now experimenting with dine-in payments. The company has initiated a limited introduction of bill payments at restaurants using…
Security
A popular Android app began secretly spying on its users months after it was listed on Google Play
4:05 pm PDT • May 29, 2023
A cybersecurity firm says a popular Android screen recording app that racked up tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store subsequently began spying on its users, including by…
In this issue: Astranis’ novel approach to GEO satellites, Virgin Galactic’s return to the skies, news from SpaceX… and more.
Apps
Reliance’s JioCinema breaks world record with free cricket streaming
8:14 am PDT • May 29, 2023
India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a livestreamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney’s Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh…
Crypto
Solana’s co-founder sees potential for its blockchain to be the ‘Apple of crypto’
8:00 am PDT • May 29, 2023
Solana co-founder Raj Gokal says the blockchain is focused on attracting new businesses, new projects and independent developers.
It’s Memorial Day here in the United States, which means that the flow of tech news is slower than normal.
Media & Entertainment
Ambani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry
2:07 am PDT • May 29, 2023
JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The Viacom18 streaming…
