Startups
Deal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A
Heroes Jobs realized that its user acquisition costs were too high to be successful as a solo company and decided to partner.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck
Here's a full teardown of Faye's 19-slide pitch deck with which it raised a $10 million Series A round.
The new rules of venture debt are already being written
Venture debt, in many ways, used to be an afterthought. But in the post-SVB world, raising this kind of debt is going to look very different.
Your first look at Alliance DAO’s latest cohort of web3 startups
The crypto industry continues to face myriad headwinds, but there’s no shortage of startups and founders diving into the space. Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, had its most r
To hire your first startup employee, begin with a list of 1,500 people
Your first hire as a startup is more like a fishing expedition, one made much harder because nobody has heard of you or your company yet.
Motherhood, mentorship and management with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan from Samooha
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, the co-founder and CEO at Samooha, a startup creating the in
a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser
A team of ex-Googlers is today launching a new digital creativity platform, Rooms.xyz, into beta testing. The startup, backed by $10 million in seed funding led by a16z, offers a browser-based tool fo
Active founders make good investors, but do they make good VCs?
Data from AngelList shows that founder-led VC firms outperform but the data is incomplete. While the strategy works well, it has drawbacks, too.
Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
Amorai is creating an AI relationship coach but the startup isn't sharing what it could look like, and an AI expert isn't sure it would work.
Daily Crunch: For second consecutive quarter, millions of subscribers drop Disney+ Hotstar
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TechCrunch is heading to London for London Tech Week
It’s certainly been a minute but we’re bringing some of the TechCrunch crew across the pond during London Tech Week to meet up with U.K.-based investors and rising early-stage founders. We
‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management
Six years ago, Yiğit Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at least by his estimation. Equipped with this per
Daily Crunch: OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI receive half of Sound Ventures’ $240M AI fund
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Kenya plans to delay ESOP taxes to incentivize startups
Kenya is proposing a special tax regime on startups’ Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs), as it aligns to its plan to spur innovation. The finance bill 2023 proposes the deferment of taxes on emp
With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture
Dutch startup Farmless has today announced that it has raised a €1.2 million pre-seed equity round at an undisclosed valuation to bring to our tables proteins created without the need for traditiona
We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city
For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Dis
Daily Crunch: IBM says its new watsonx platform is an ‘enterprise studio for AI builders’
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Boxed wine can be bougie with Allison Luvera and Lauren De Niro Pipher from Juliet
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week we welcome Dominic Madori-Davis to the show as the new cohost of Found! The team is also joined by Allison Luvera and Lau
Daily Crunch: In its second markdown in 4 months, Invesco slashes Swiggy’s valuation to $5.5B
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Daily Crunch: New AI model DeepFloyd IF offers ‘advanced text-to-image generation techniques’
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