Cherub, an angel investing community inspired by dating apps, entices investors and founders to pair up
Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea.
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ByteDance gets 24 hours to show EU a DSA risk assessment for TikTok Lite
TikTok owner ByteDance is facing fresh questions about its compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework that puts a legal obli...
Andreessen Horowitz’s $7.2B new funds for a “new era”
What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost $11 billion and take ages. So, the U.S. space agency is throwing t...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/andreessen-horowitzs-7-2b-new-funds-for-a-new-era/
NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud native environments
NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from PortWorx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. ...
Inversion Space will test its space-based delivery tech in October
Inversion Space is aptly named. The three-year-old startup’s primary concern is not getting things to space, but bringing them back — transforming the ultimate high ground into “a transportation layer...
How Found Energy went from ‘self-cannibalizing robots’ to cleaning up heavy industry
The startup is decarbonizing heavy industry using aluminum as a fuel, an approach inspired by a future mission to Europa.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/found-energy-seed-round-exclusive/
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric motor. It’s not quiet, exactly, but it’s nothing compared to the hydraulic jerk...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/boston-dynamics-atlas-humanoid-robot-goes-electric/
BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps
IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years companies have looked for an edge in get...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/bigpanda-brings-generative-ai-to-itops/
Formlabs says new 3D printer ‘rivals injection molding’
This month marks five years since the release of the Form 3, Formlabs’ last major 3D printer refresh. To celebrate the occasion, the MIT spinoff has unveiled the long-awaited Form 4. At the top of the...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/formlabs-says-new-3d-printer-rivals-injection-modeling/
B2B marketplace The Folklore bags $3.4M seed to get brands into global stores
Amira Rasool founded The Folklore in 2018 to help fashion brands from emerging markets like Africa, Asia and The Caribbean tap into the international market. In 2022, the startup introduced The Folklo...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/the-folklore-bags-3-4m-seed-funding/
Diagon puts ex-Tesla supply chain muscle to work for small businesses
Companies can identify qualified suppliers from Diagon’s network of equipment suppliers, system integrators and service providers. Then leverage a toolkit to manage those complex projects.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/diagon-tesla-supply-chain-small-businesses/
Lina Khan, Steve Case & more join StrictlyVC in Washington, D.C.
Late last summer, TechCrunch joined forces with StrictlyVC to create smaller, more intimate evenings for our readers. Already this year, we’ve hosted these nights in San Francisco and Los Angeles, fea...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/lina-khan-steve-case-more-join-strictlyvc-in-washington-d-c/
EU privacy body adopts view on Meta’s controversial ‘consent or pay’ tactic
Incoming guidance by an expert steering body for European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s surveillance advertising business model: Large platforms such as Facebook a...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/consent-or-pay-decision-report/
Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The...
Klarna credit card launches in the US as Swedish fintech grows its market presence
Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our most asked for products,” said David Fock, Klarna’s ch...
Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s X so far
Tesla has spent around $200,000 advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CEO caved to shareholder pressure last year and said his company would “try a little adv...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/tesla-x-advertising-musk-stock-package-delware-texas/
LinkedIn tests Premium Company Pages, with AI and marketing tools to grow audiences
LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/linkedin-premium-company-page-visit-visibility-update/
Inside LemFi’s play to be fintech to the Global South diaspora
The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama befalling even its most promising-looking startups. ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/inside-lemfis-play-to-be-fintech-to-the-global-south-diaspora/
A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder
Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid robotics announcement. As that was the year o...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/a-humanoid-robot-is-on-its-way-from-mobileye-founder/
Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools
Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform. The platform is adding a logo of a small ghost with a sparkle icon to denote an AI-genera...