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Unshackled Ventures has $20M to invest exclusively in immigrant founders
With a new $20M fund, the Unshackled team will invest in immigrants and help them secure visas.
As measles returns, Indiegogo joins other tech platforms in banning Anti-Vaccine campaigns
The last year has been the worst on record in the US for measles outbreaks since the disease was declared ‘eradicated’ in 2000. Even though vaccination rates across the country are still h
How to source hard-to-fill programming positions
Zack Burt Contributor Zack Burt is an American computer programmer. He founded Code For Cash, the tech recruiting firm. The competition is intense for great tech talent, and it’s even harder to find
The robot-recruiter is coming — VCV’s AI will read your face in a job interview
With remote working becoming more of a norm than ever before, remote interviews have, in turn, become a necessity. But how can you truly assess someone from these? In addition, it’s easy to miss gre
Blueland launches with a suite of eco-friendly cleaning supplies designed to reduce plastic waste
Sarah Paiji had the idea to launch the eco-friendly refillable cleaning supply retailer Blueland after hearing about the abundance of microplastics in the water she was using to dilute her child’
The rules of the Game Of Oligarchs
Technology shrinks the world, makes geography less relevant. People find kinship, common cause, and community on the Internet, across nations and sometimes even languages. When the Internet began to e
Working backwards to uncover key success factors
If you’re a SaaS business, you’re likely overwhelmed with data and an ever-growing list of acronyms that purport to unlock secret keys to your success. But like most things, tracking with yo
PathAI raises $60 million for its computer vision-based pathology detection technology
With a clinical version of PathAI‘s computer vision-based pathology detection service still at least one year from coming to market, the diagnostic technology developer has snagged $60 million i
Kindbody raises $15M, will open a ‘Fertility Bus’ with mobile testing & assessments
RRE Ventures has backed the New York-based fertility startup.
Talk all things robotics and AI with TechCrunch writers
This Thursday, we’ll be hosting our third annual Robotics + AI TechCrunch Sessions event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The day is packed start-to-finish with intimate discussions on the st
Public health startup Cityblock raises $65M Series B
The Sidewalk Labs spin-out provides personalized health and social services to low-income communities.
For true transparency around political advertising, US tech companies must collaborate
In October 2017, online giants Twitter, Facebook and Google announced plans to voluntarily increase transparency for political advertising on their platforms. The three plans to tackle disinformation
Uber, Lyft and the challenge of transportation startup profits
Everything you know about the cost of transportation is wrong.
Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
Some of the first users of autonomous taxis are senior citizens living in a massive retirement community in Florida. It’s there, in a 40-square-mile area known as The Villages, that autonomous d
GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky
The Global Positioning System time epoch is ending and another one is beginning, an event that could affect your devices or any equipment or legacy system that relies on GPS for time and location. Mos
Three keys to cultivating an effective product development culture
This guest post is a part of our latest initiative to demystify design and find the best brand designers and agencies in the world who work with early-stage companies.
Reserve your demo table at TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Viva la revolution! And by that we mean the tech revolution taking place in mobility and transportation. If you’re an early-stage startup founder in either field, don’t miss your chance to demo yo
Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers
Security researchers have found hundreds of millions of Facebook user records sitting on an inadvertently public storage server. The two batches of user records were collected and exposed from two thi
Discover Deep Learning with Nvidia’s Robotics Workshop on April 17 at UC Berkeley
Nvidia is partnering with TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI to host a pre-conference workshop at UC Berkeley on April 17 titled Deep Learning for Robotics. In this eight-hour, instructor-led workshop
Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups
Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are bu