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Technology and visual effects startup Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding. The investment was led by Round13 Captial with participation from Rhino Venture

Harry Destecroix co-founded Ziylo while studying for his PhD at the University of Bristol. Ziylo, a university spin-out company, developed a synthetic molecule that binds to glucose in blood. Four yea

AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only a few months later, it is not changing its name again, but

Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup, is raising $1 billion from the Japanese telecom giant.

Leslee Cohen has been practicing law for decades in her hometown of Chicago. She’s been working with more and more startups over the last ten years, after co-founding her own firm (Hershman Cohen) a

The word “quantum” gained currency in the late 20th century as a descriptor signifying something so significant it defied the use of common adjectives. At best, that is an imprecise (though ente

Paul Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Paul Shapiro s the author of "Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World". Most paleo dieters try to stick to some t

The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test pages you used to fill out in school. He th

As a degenerate clubber, I often find myself back in the VIP where I enjoy fine libations and the company of many ladies. But what about the pain point of knowing which club to visit and how much to s

Back in high school when I worked at Arby's, I was very careful to punch in and out using an old, mechanical time clock. Now, however, I suspect I'd use something <a target="_blank" href="http://shift

We're very lucky that the creator of the Cerevellum is even alive. Evan Solida was a competitive cyclist until a major accident in 2007 left him unable to ride. After years of plastic surgery and phys

With successes like the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/13/how-the-pebble-smart-watch-hit-2-million-on-kickstarter-qa/">Pebble smart watch</a>, crowd-funding is becoming more and more attracti

Back in <a HREF="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/ebay.html">in 1999, just as Ebay was coming into bloom</a>, William Gibson wrote a piece on his experiences buying expensive watches online. He

We first wrote about <a HREF="http://www.chocomize.com/">Chocomize</a> not realizing the importance of disruption in the bespoke chocolate space. After trying a sample of their produce today at the Ne

Here we go: it's the last night of our whirlwind Virginia tour and this time we're in Richmond, home of the Fan District, Altria (everyone's favorite tobacco company), and our friends at <a HREF="http

Last week, Yahoo announced that it would <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/yahoo-cuts-14-percent-of-workforce-2000-given-pink-slips/">cut 2,000 jobs</a>. Given the employee shortage in Silico

Just a reminder: today is the most important day of the year. It's TC DC Mini Meet-up Night! We're here in DC and we're looking forward to meeting with you all at <a href="http://www.lovethebeer.com/r

You've dropped out of college, met a dude who is totally into PHP, and you're ready to build a startup. Where do you begin? With a name, silly! That's where NameStation.com comes in. It's basically

A Tel Aviv startup, <a HREF="http://www.walkme.com/">WalkMe</a>, aims to do for your website what your UX team should have already done: make it easier for your users to understand. The service create

<em>Editor’s Note: Guest contributor and early TechCrunch writer <a href="http://stevepoland.com/about">Steve Poland</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/popo">@popo</a>) currently is exploring raising