Steve O’Hear

Zapp snaps up $200M to supersize its instant grocery play

Zapp, the instant grocery delivery startup that launched in 2020 in London, has picked up a substantial round of funding to go head-to-head with Getir, Gopuff, Jiffy, Deliveroo and the many others hun

As Next Insurance makes its first acquisition, insurtech looks energetic

Expect to keep hearing about insurtech for quarters and quarters to come.

Daily Crunch: Twitter tightens security ahead of election

Twitter takes preemptive steps to avoid election-related hacks, we check out the new Apple Watches and Facebook launches new business tools. This is your Daily Crunch for September 17, 2020. The big s

The startup cash countdown begins

As global startup markets enter a slowdown -- more on that shortly -- we're starting to get notes on when growth-oriented firms are going to run short of cash.

Assistive technologies will be a $26 billion-dollar market, and investors are only now addressing it

Rohan Silva is obsessed with social mobility and why certain groups are so under-represented in the technology industry. He co-founded Second Home, a coworking space looking to bring together dispara

Steve Jobs emails: "We will keep making the best computers"

<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/ipad.png" alt="" title="ipad" width="183" height="233" class="shot" />It's all the rage these days. You fire off an email to <a href="http://

Welcome Steve O'Hear, our new Contributing Editor

<img alt="" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0006/6412/66412v7-max-250x250.jpg" title="Steve O'Hear" class="shot" width="250" height="250" />It’s my great pleasure to announ