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Subletting app Kiki raises $6M by using dating app concepts to match listings and renters
Kiki (formerly EasyRent), a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months, recently closed a $6 million seed round, its co-founder Toby Thomas-Smith…
Hugging Face raises $235M from investors, including Salesforce and Nvidia
AI startup Hugging Face has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round, as first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X…
Cypago, which aims to automate compliance and governance for companies, raises $13M
There are a growing number of cybersecurity regulations designed to keep business and customer data protected. In 2022 alone, more than 40 U.S. states introduced 250 bills focused on cybersecurity,…
OMERS Ventures didn’t exit Europe because of the market — but it had good reason to
At the outset, it may seem as if the lackluster state of the European venture market may have motivated OMERS’ exit, but it appears that wasn’t the case.
Landing, a platform for making virtual mood boards, brings its creation tools to mobile
Landing, the community-powered social platform where users create and publish virtual mood boards and collages, today launched a mobile feature called “Creation,” allowing users to express their creativity on the…
Beamer, a no-code platform to build tools for measuring and monitoring product engagement, last week announced that it received a $20 million investment from Camber Partners, Beamer’s first outside round…
VCs should give up on the winner-takes-all approach to investing
VCs shouldn’t get too hung up on a company’s chances of winning an entire category, because most won’t. And that’s fine.
While we don’t have the numbers, it seems safe to assume Parade won’t be the only DTC startup to see a similar exit.
Bad CTOs mean startups have millions of dollars’ worth of cap table dead weight
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week, I’ve been looking at the evolution of tech startups. The journey from two…
DynamoFL, which offers software to bring large language models (LLMs) to enterprises and fine-tune those models on sensitive data, today announced that it raised $15.1 million in a Series A…
Mixlab adds to veterinary pharmacy footprint following $10M Series A extension
The new investment, an extension of a previous Series A round, enabled the company to open a third location in the Miami area.
Deal Dive: This AI startup is racking up government customers
For most startups it is hard to land a government contract but IVIX has landed multiple inside the U.S. and beyond.
We sigh, as humans spool up to take a break, while the semi-sentient machines continue writing their poetry in their air-conditioned underground data-center homes. n my column this week, I…
11xAI closes a $2M pre-seed round to create autonomous AI workers
The company builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees.
Insiders bet more on Fizz, a social network that has now bubbled up at 80+ college campuses
Fizz, a burgeoning social network established by two Stanford dropouts, captured the attention and interest of Stanford University students early on with its approach to anonymity and engagement. Now the…
Pretiosum Ventures hits first close on its second fund to back infrastructure startups
London-based Pretiosum Ventures has reached the first close of what TechCrunch understands could eventually be a $20 million second fund. Founded in London in 2019 by Yana Abramova, the solo…
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So your startup’s runway is dwindling and fundraising is hard. What’s next?
What should startups do when their runway is ending, investors are disappearing, and options for more capital dwindle?
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No, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth
This year has seen numerous founders get caught lying about their users, VCs should start asking the right questions early.
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Taking another look at venture debt
Ultimately, you need to remember that whether you raise funds through equity or through debt, all money has a cost.
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday morning. State-sponsored bad actors have long been able to make “deepfake” videos that are good…
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Developers continue to dive into the crypto space as market remains lackluster
The phrase “in bear markets you build” is cliché, but it might hold true for crypto.
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Commentary: The old guard in venture reigns supreme
Black founders have never raised more than 2% of capital in any given quarter.
Tuesday Capital, a Silicon Valley firm that moved to Austin during the pandemic, captures $31M for its newest seed-stage fund
Austin seems to agree with Tuesday Capital. When the 12-year-old seed-stage outfit — originally called CrunchFund — was co-founded by longtime VC Patrick Gallagher and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, it…
Allo is a new app that aims to help people create positive habits with their finances through mindfulness
Allo, a new financial app that can be described as Headspace for personal finance, is aiming to help users meaningfully engage with their finances without becoming overwhelmed with numbers and…
NATO announces $1B fund to back startups supporting ‘safety, freedom and human empowerment’
After announcing plans nearly two years ago, defense alliance NATO has officially closed its first fund to back startups that are building technology strategic to NATO’s own goals in defense…
Several Black media publishing founders and investors said that raising funds for a publishing startup was already very hard, and those who raise tend to be the elite within the…
Deal Dive: Cutting through the noise in a category clouded by catastrophic failure
The startup is building a machine, VitalOne, that can perform more than 50 blood tests and get patient results back in 20 minutes.
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Not to get all GrumpyManYellsAtCloud.gif, but I’m getting pretty tired of the myth of the…
While SAFEs are generally considered founder friendly, when you get into the details it’s less clear why they would be over priced rounds.
Andy McLoughlin of Uncork Capital on the firm’s new funds, succession, and why next year could be a bloodbath (sorry, startups)
A few weeks ago, Uncork Capital shared the news that it recently closed on $400 million in capital commitments across two new funds: $200 million for a seed-stage vehicle and…
