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Gogoro, Belrise JV to spend $2.5B on battery swapping network in Indian state | Rebecca Bellan | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Gogoro, the Taiwanese paladin for two-wheeler battery swapping, is working with the Indian state of Maharashtra to establish state-wide battery charging and swapping infrastructure. The initiative will be driven by a “50-50” partnership between Gogoro and Belrise Industries, an automotive systems manufacturer based in ... |
Outrider raises $73M to bring its autonomous electric yard trucks into the mainstream | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Autonomous vehicle technology may no longer be the fuel powering the hype machine. But companies applying the technology to agriculture, commercial and logistics applications are still attracting venture capital. Take Outrider, a Golden, Colorado startup developing autonomous electric yard trucks, for example. Distribu... |
India releases guidelines for social media influencers accepting paid promotions | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | As the market of social media influencers is getting bigger in India, the South Asian nation has introduced endorsement guidelines to limit unfair trade practices and misleading promotions on the web. On Friday, the Department of Consumer Affairs to announce new guidelines to make it mandatory for social media influe... |
A $32 million seed round for Chris DeWolfe’s next gaming biz defies 2023 trends | Connie Loizos | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | A $32 million seed round may seem like a throwback to frothier times, like … 2021. But that’s how much just raised in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). It’s a lot of moolah in a volatile market, even coming as it does from two separate a16z funds: the firm’s debut games vehicle and its crypto fund, both o... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: 2023 unicorn slump, global VC slowdown, email marketing 101 | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | Due to a phenomenon called semantic satiation, if you repeat a word or phrase too frequently, it can sometimes lose all meaning. That’s what happened to “unicorn:” We wore it out like a pair of sneakers that leak in the rain but are too comfortable to part with. In fact, most of the startups in CB Insights’ unicorn ind... |
Chevy announces the fastest Corvette yet, the electrified 2024 Corvette E-Ray | Matt Burns | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | The great American sports car is going partly electric. Chevy pulled the wraps off the 2024 Corvette E-Ray, revealing a dual powertrain affair. A 6.2L Small Block V8 sits behind the driver in a mid-engine configuration. An electric motor is connected to the front wheels, providing AWD and instant torque for improved of... |
Clouds might be scattering in China’s venture capital world | Rita Liao | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | The outlook of investing in China is suddenly brightening up as the country gradually phases out its , which has of all kinds and for the last three years. For venture capitalists, the pandemic has been a tumultuous ride. , a partner at Northern Light Venture Capital, a China-focused VC firm with , calls 2022 th... |
Court to decide if Elon Musk is careless or criminal, and other TC news | Darrell Etherington | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast. This week Amanda Silberling is here to talk about how Dungeons & Dragons creators are fighting to keep their livelihoods and Rebecca Bellan comes on to talk about how a tweet has gotten Elon Musk into legal trouble… again. And as always, we break down the biggest stories in tech.... |
A new kind of PE fund plans to roll up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits | Mike Butcher | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many, and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups ... |
GM, please build the baby EV pickup of my dreams | Harri Weber | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | In an industry obsessed with (at least here in the U.S.), you may not’ve expected GM to show interest in an electric baby pickup, but here we are. GM is considering a pickup design that’s “smaller than the Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Cruz,” with a “low roofline” and a 4 to 4.5-foot bed, according to . The pu... |
Uber, Bolt drivers hope for increased earnings foiled as Tanzania reinstates 25% commission | Annie Njanja | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Barely a year after and Bolt charge their partners at 15%, the authority in charge has backtracked on the order, taking away drivers’ prospects of increased earnings. The fee was increased to 25% effective last Sunday after the Land and Transport Regulatory Authority (Latra) issued a notice on December 30, which supe... |
4 questions to ask when evaluating AI prototypes for bias | Veronica Torres | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | has been progress around data protection in the U.S. thanks to the passing of several laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act ( ), and nonbinding documents, such as the . Yet, there currently aren’t any standard regulations that dictate how technology companies should mitigate AI bias and discrimination. As... |
Putting numbers on the global venture slowdown | Anna Heim | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | I don’t know,” was my first reaction when reports on venture capital in 2022 hit my inbox this month. It is pretty clear by now that there was a slowdown, so what’s the point of harping on about it as we enter a new year? The point, as often with data, is that we can now confirm what was merely intuition until Q4 actu... |
Amazon’s Music Unlimited quietly gets a price hike in the US and UK | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | Starting on February 21, Amazon’s Music Unlimited streaming service will increase by $1/£1 in the U.S. and the U.K. The Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan is increasing from $9.99 (£9.99) to $10.99 (£10.99) per month, whereas the student plan is changing from $4.99 (£4.99) to $5.99 (£5.99) per month. The company no... |
Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached | Zack Whittaker | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice. In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of , said that the likely culprit was a crede... |
Amazon fined by regulators for unsafe warehouse work conditions | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Federal regulators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found that three Amazon warehouse facilities had designed to require employers to provide safe working environments. Investigations found that Amazon workers are at high risk for back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), ... |
Twitter puts more emphasis on the bookmark feature on iOS | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | After promising a feature that lets you easily bookmark tweets, Twitter is now rolling it out on iOS. The new design displays the bookmark button under the expanded tweet view. Making it easier to add a post to your bookmarks. Before today’s change, you had to tap on the share button to open the sharing card and then t... |
Daily Crunch: Amazon cancels charitable donation initiative so it can focus on ‘programs with greater impact’ | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Thursday! This week has just flown by, and we’re still reeling from the excitement that . Compliments? In this day and age? Is there actually hope for us after all?! Well, we have a compliment for ya, — thank you for spreading some joy into our day today! — and People are addicted to credit cards — and it’s no wond... |
Copilot lands $10M to help service businesses build digital customer experiences | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | , a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by YC Continuity and Lachy Groom at a $100 million post-money valuation. Co-founder and CEO Marlon Misra said t... |
Canada wants to support commercial space launches | Darrell Etherington | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | While the bulk of commercial space launch activity is happening just south of its border, Canada is tired of watching from the sidelines and wants in on the action: The country’s federal transport ministry announced that it intends to support commercial space launches in the near future. The plan is for Canada to host ... |
While layoffs keep coming, so far Apple has steered clear | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | On Wednesday, it was laying off 10,000 people. Alphabet added to the misery this morning. We’ve previously seen at Amazon and another . You could also throw in Salesforce, which at the beginning of the month. You’ll notice one company is conspicuously missing from this wretched list, and that’s Apple, which at ... |
Twitter brings its “For You” and “Following” dual-timeline view to the web | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | After updating its iOS app to , Twitter is rolling out this update to the web interface. Earlier this week, the company renamed “Home” (algorithmic timeline) and “Latest” (chronological timeline) to “For You” and “Following”. The “For You” timeline now appears first in both the iOS app and the web. While you have to s... |
Dry-cleaning robotics startup Presso pulls in another $8M | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | In late-2020, . It made a lot of sense at the time. People weren’t traveling much and therefore weren’t particularly hung up on getting their business attire dry-cleaned. Certainly the hospitality industry — which had been identified as a major potential revenue sort –0 had effectively ground to a screeching halt. Aro... |
Scenario lands $6M for its AI platform that generates game art assets | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Depending on who you ask, generative AI is either massively overhyped or undervalued. Defined as algorithm-driven tech that creates text, art and other forms of media given a prompt, it’s captured the attention of major VC backers who’ve piled hundreds of millions of dollars into firms like and . But generative AI h... |
Analysts cut 2023 tech spending predictions as consumers hold back | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Predicting spending is a tricky business, especially in a period of economic uncertainty. Perhaps that’s why both IDC and Gartner have cut their fall predictions in the new year, with Gartner now predicting modest 2.2% growth for 2023, with IDC a bit more optimistic at 4.4%. In the fall, Gartner was predicting a and ... |
FTX’s new CEO says there’s possibility for exchange to restart | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | As FTX news subsided in recent weeks, the new CEO of the crypto exchange shared that he is exploring the possibility of restarting the company, according to a from The Wall Street Journal. John Ray III, the new FTX CEO, said in an interview that “everything is on the table,” in regards to reviving the bankrupt compan... |
PC sales slip for fourth straight quarter in Q4 as demand remains muted | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | When you look at fourth-quarter worldwide PC sales data from , and , it’s fair to say that the news was not great, with all three firms seeing precipitous declines from 2021 highs. In fact, the numbers plunged for the fourth consecutive quarter, with sales falling 28% according to IDC, 28.5% according to Gartner, a... |
More money, more problems for crypto | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Welcome back to Do you believe in second chances? Well, FTX’s new CEO John J. Ray III hopes so. The disgraced crypto exchange’s new chief is and possibly reviving the bankrupt company, according to a new by WSJ. Time will tell if that happens and works out for both FTX and the company’s customers and creditors. In ... |
Sling TV’s subscriber base continues to tank, loses over 75K subs in Q4 | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Sling TV, the DISH-owned streaming service, finished the year off with a substantial drop in subscribers, ending Q4 2022 with a loss of 77,000 subs. As reported in an on January 17, Sling TV now has a total of 2.33 million subscribers, down from in the previous quarter. While the company momentarily gained subscrib... |
EU watchdogs agree on how to handle certain cookie consent dark patterns | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 20 | Cookie consent banners that use blatant design tricks to try to manipulate web users into agreeing to hand over their data for behavioral advertising, instead of giving people a free and fair choice to refuse this kind of creepy tracking, are facing a coordinated pushback from the European Union’s data protection regul... |
Building up and tearing down | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | the remaining vestiges out of CES 2023 in last week’s Actuator. The good news is that things are starting to pick up again like clockwork. If you’ve emailed me about work stuff in the past week, I apologize for the delay — I’ve been out of one frying pan and into the next. Anecdotally, I’ll say this is a net positive.... |
Oro, an open source B2B e-commerce platform from Magento’s co-founder, raises $13M | Paul Sawers | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | , an open source e-commerce platform co-created by Magento’s co-founder and former CTO, today announced it has raised $13 million in a strategic growth round of funding. Founded in 2012, Los Angeles-based Oro’s platform constitutes a range of applications, including , its flagship B2B e-commerce platform for building ... |
Trunk extends its developer toolkit with CI analytics | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Trunk, a startup that aims to build a toolkit that helps developers build and ship their code faster, today announced the launch of its latest product: . The new service helps developers understand how their CI Workflows (currently with a focus on GitHub Actions) perform in the real world — and if there are any trends... |
DOJ charges founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato for processing $700M of illegal funds | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | In a press conference on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it has Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato, for allegedly processing over $700 million of illicit funds. “Overnight, the Department worked with key partners here and abroad to disrupt Bitzlato, the China-based money laund... |
Taco Bell, KFC owner says data stolen during ransomware attack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Yum Brands, the parent company of fast-food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has confirmed that company data was stolen in a ransomware attack. TechCrunch first learned of an apparent incident affecting Yum Brands earlier this week, which the Kentucky-based company confirmed in a on Thursday. Yum Brands said a ra... |
This gentle drone collects loose DNA from swaying tree branches | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Understanding the biodiversity of forests is crucial to their conservation or restoration. Collecting “external DNA” left behind by animals is a good way to find out what lives there without having to spot them or even be there at the same time — and makes taking samples from tree limbs safer and easier. External DNA... |
Sling TV rolls out user profiles, promises faster pace of innovation in 2023 | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Dish-owned live TV streaming service is looking to catch up with competitors with the launch of new features like user profiles and the promise of more changes to come in 2023. The company began quietly rolling out the user profiles feature just ahead of last week, initially on Android TV and Fire TV devices, with ... |
Curated Loop is ranging indie designer picks for an edgier take on fashion rentals | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Here’s a fashion rental startup with a twist: London, U.K.-based — which soft-launched a high-end fashion rental marketplace last week after bootstrapping to launch an MVP — is sourcing statement pieces from independent designers’ sample stock to style itself as an edgier alternative to more conventional rivals. Its ... |
Connect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 | Lauren Simonds | 2,023 | 1 | 19 | Successful startup founders do not from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. It takes time to educate yourself, learn essential skills and acquire a smart, connected network. Here’s the great news — taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future... |
Crypto in for a ‘choppy year’ of slow capital deployment, investors say | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | venture capitalists are , others see it as a hazardous time. “I think it’s going to be a fairly choppy year,” , venture capital portfolio manager at Arca, said to TechCrunch. “You’re going to have a pretty strong stomach for this over the next few years here. We’re trying to be healthy, mindful and have grounding ou... |
Daily Crunch: GoMechanic lays off 70% after investors discover ‘founders knowingly misstated facts’ | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Helloooo, Crunchers! The heavy goods train of tech news keeps on rollin’ down (and sometimes off) the tracks. Apropos tracks, we’ve been a little besotted with . It’s full of surprises and powerful bits — give yourself a 9-minute break and give it a listen! — and In a press conference on Wednesday, the U.S. Depart... |
Font furore as State Department retires Times New Roman for retired Calibri | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | In a heartwarming callback to the absurdly low-stakes controversies of the Obama era, the State Department is making extremely small waves by officially retiring the old workhorse Times New Roman font from official communications. It will be succeeded by Calibri, a font best known now for being . Really, though, there... |
6 crypto investors talk about DeFi and the road ahead for adoption in 2023 | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continue... |
Sophos to lay off 450 employees globally | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch. “Sophos today announced an internal restructuring which has resulted in job losses and the start of consultation periods that potentially will affect 10% of our global employee base,” ... |
Goldenset launches out of stealth to make equity investments in creators | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | is launching out of stealth with a $10 million seed round to deploy equity investments in digital creators. The company was founded by Darren Lachtman and Nick Millman, who previously founded , a brand partnership marketplace acquired by Twitter for over $50 million, and then a Gen Z entertainment network. “For mos... |
Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev to help companies authenticate users without passwords | Paul Sawers | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Open source password management platform has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. The news comes shortly after 1Password and LastPass rival Bitwarden , sec... |
Tabby raises $58M at $660M valuation as PayPal Ventures makes first investment in the GCC | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | null |
Mailchimp says it was hacked — again | Zack Whittaker | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident. The company said in an that its security team detected an intruder on ... |
Wallapop, the circular marketplace out of Spain, raised $87M more at a $832M valuation led by Korea’s Naver | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | — a peer-to-peer marketplace based out of Barcelona that made a splash at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with consumers who were looking for more localized, less wasteful, and more ecofriendly routes for buying and selling items — has raised more money to continue its expansion in Europe. The company has picked up €... |
Deal Box’s venture arm to invest $125M in startups using web3 technology | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Deal Box, a capital markets advisory and token offering packaging platform, has launched its venture arm with plans to invest $125 million in startups using web3 technology, the company shared Wednesday. “We believe in the transformative power of web3, and we plan to invest in both web3 startups and companies that use ... |
Maritime giant DNV says 1,000 ships affected by ransomware attack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | DNV, a Norwegian shipping classification society, has confirmed its systems were hit by a attack, affecting around 1,000 ships that rely on its technology. The Oslo-based DNV said in a on Wednesday that its ShipManager software was targeted by file-encrypting malware on January 7, forcing the organization to shut d... |
Chord connects new funding to predictive commerce metrics so brands can grow | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Commerce has gone through quite a change over the past three years. First was the quick shift to online during the pandemic, then came the reckoning after people began venturing out again. During this time, commerce companies, both brick-and-mortar and online, were looking to technology to get their companies up-and-ru... |
ThriveCart, which sells tools to build e-commerce carts, raises $35M | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | Often, first-time e-commerce entrepreneurs don’t know what they need to build an effective funnel and cart experience for their platforms. It’s not their fault; the problem’s challenging. According to one , the average cart abandonment rate across all industries is 69.57%. That means roughly seven out of 10 shoppers w... |
Decodable wants to take real-time stream processing mainstream | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | , the real-time data engineering and stream processing platform based, in part, on the open source project, is launching a major update today that aims to make the service more attractive to large enterprises. In addition to expanding its library of connectors to enable data ingestion from more sources and a new en... |
South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. South African startup wants to change how real estate age... |
Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’ is set to arrive on Netflix in December | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | “Rebel Moon,” Netflix’s highly anticipated space fantasy epic, is coming to the streamer on December 22, 2023, the company announced today, alongside a of over a dozen titles that are also arriving on the streamer this year. The sizzle reel shows a first look at the sci-fi adventure film, giving viewers a glimpse at ... |
Good Meat approved to sell serum-free cultivated meat in Singapore | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 18 | announced today it has received regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency to use serum-free media for the production of its cultivated meat. The brand, which is the cultivated meat division of U.S.-based food startup Eat Just, says it is the only cultivated meat producer in the world with the ability to sell ... |
Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ gets a second season | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | After surpassing viewed in the third week of its debut, Netflix’s “Wednesday” has been renewed for a second season, the company today. The series originally premiered in November with eight episodes. It’s centered around the popular “Addams Family” character, Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega), as she begins... |
Oversight Board presses Meta to revise ‘convoluted and poorly defined’ nudity policy | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown of two posts that depicted a nonbinary and transgender person’s bare chest. The case represents a failure of a convoluted and impractical nudity policy, the Board said, and recommended tha... |
Delphia co-founder placed on leave after sexual assault allegations from former employee | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | , a mobile investment platform, is facing a lawsuit and allegations that its co-founder and CTO Cameron Agius-Westland sexually assaulted and harassed a former employee, according to a complaint filed on Monday and shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The complaint alleges that on August 17, 2022, Westland “sexually ass... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Space tech predictions, startup IP strategy, finding feasible funding | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | I once aspired to own San Francisco real estate. Now, I’m only interested in acquiring intellectual property. Case in point: “Scooby-Doo” aired on TV before I was born, but the spin-off “Velma” just premiered on HBO Max. It’s getting ripped to shreds on social media, which means people watched, so we can expect more to... |
Fledgling startup founders — buy an early-bird ticket to build your future | Lauren Simonds | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | The early stages of building a startup is no cakewalk even during a strong economy — much less during the uncertain one we’re currently living in. If you’re an aspiring or newly minted founder, you’ll find invaluable information, guidance and support — at an early-bird price you can afford — during , a one-day founder... |
Daily Crunch: Apple powers up 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and Max chips | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Good news — we are back with another round of events for TechCrunch, and we have in Boston in April. Woohoo! Today, we also particularly enjoyed ’s . — and ChatGPT, the AI that can write poems, emails, spreadsheet formulas and more, has attracted a lot of negative publicity lately, writes. That’s perhaps why ... |
Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what? | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,023 | 1 | 8 | Helloooo and Happy New Year! Feels like it’s been a while since I sat down to write this newsletter. I’ve missed it! Before I dive into the news, I wanted to say that I hope you all had a restful and fun holiday. Ours was super low-key but that’s not a bad thing. Still, I will admit it has taken a bit for my brain to s... |
4 tips to find the funding that fits your business | Carlos Antequera | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | clear: Startups are finding funding increasingly difficult to secure, and even unicorns appear cornered, with many . But equity rounds aren’t the only way for a company to raise money — alternative and other non-dilutive financing options are often overlooked. Taking on debt might be the right solution when you’re fo... |
Twitter rivals, unicorn trivia and valuation homework | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Welcome back to , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s Tuesday, not Monday, but hey, the week ahead is as busy as ever. Here’s what I chatted about today: As always, you can support me by following me on and The show also tweets from , so fol... |
Fintech predictions and opportunities for 2023 | Victoria Treyger | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | an eventful year. Fintech has fallen from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. The great news is that large enterprise and midmarket companies care more than ever about bottom-line impact. As reven... |
UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique that its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Late last week, it emerged that Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the international body that works to guide the development of web standards — to rethink the Topics API: A key ad-targeting component of Google’s so-called Privacy Sandbox proposal to evolve the adtech stack that Ch... |
Cost-effective IP strategies can lead to massive exit valuations | Kyle Graves | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | on intellectual property rights and exit events often recite the anecdotal experience of software founders operating in industries dominated by strong network effects and natural monopolies. These unique circumstances often lead to first-mover advantages that displace consideration of intellectual property protection ... |
Wyze goes back to its roots with the Wyze Cam OG and OG Telephoto | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Back in 2017, Wyze made a name for itself with the launch of its original . Over the years, it released its fair share of iterations of the Wyze Cam, with . Today, it’s launching both a new iteration of the original Wyze Cam, dubbed the Wyze Cam OG, with a launch price of $20 (later $24) as well as a new member of th... |
Modernizing the live music industry with Mir Hwang from GigFinesse | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by co-founder and CEO . Mir talks about how his struggles to book music gigs as a teenager pushed him to launch the company that connects artists with venues for live shows. Mir also talked about how hard it w... |
India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by gov’t agencies | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | The Indian government has proposed making the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies the arbiter of truth on what information is misleading online, escalating troubles for social media firms and other internet companies in the key overseas market. The proposal by the Ministry of Electronics and IT came as part of... |
Disney+ releases full trailer for ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Disney+ premiered the for Season 3 of “ ” last night, giving fans a glimpse at what the bounty hunter and his tiny companion will get into this time. The season will make its exclusive debut on the streamer on March 1. The third season will take place following the events of “The Book of Boba Fett.” The newest traile... |
Royal Mail CEO confirms cyberattack downed UK postal service | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson has confirmed that a cyberattack is to blame for the at the U.K. postal giant. The admission comes almost a week after that left the British mail service unable to dispatch items to overseas destinations. “We’ve confirmed that we’ve had a cyberattack,” Thomps... |
Now that it’s thoroughly spoiled, here’s Apple’s M2 MacBook Pro ‘event’ video | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | One of two things likely happened here. Either Apple made a proper video before deciding this wasn’t enough to justify a proper “event,” or this is just how the company is going to treat smaller announcements, going forward. Given the number of Apple rumors swirling around at the moment, it also seems entirely plausi... |
HBO Max subscribers can now livestream US national soccer games | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | HBO Max makes history tonight with its first-ever domestic live sporting event. Starting at 10 p.m. ET, U.S. subscribers can watch the U.S. Women’s Soccer National Team take on the New Zealand team, the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup co-host. The streamer will also air the follow-up match between the U.S. and New Zealand ... |
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Apple this morning powered by the latest generation of its in-house, custom-designed PC chipsets. The chipsets — the M2 Pro and M2 Max — feature a more powerful CPU and GPU, up to 96 GB of unified memory and what Apple claims is “industry-leading” power efficiency. Apple Built using a second-generation 5-nanometer... |
Beaconstac lands $25M investment for its QR code management platform | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | QR code tech, which exploded during the pandemic as businesses searched for hygienic alternatives to physical touchpoints, continues to grow in popularity, particularly across sectors such as restaurants and outlet retail. to Insider Intelligence, more than 99.5 million smartphone users will scan a QR code by 2025, u... |
Apple’s M2 Mac Mini arrives January 24, starting at $599 | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Apple just dropped a refresh to the Mac Mini. The new version of the compact desktop arrives with a choice of last year’s M2 chip, or the freshly arrived . The system received a , with the arrival of the first M1 chip. In his review, Matt called the system a “no-compromise, low-cost Mac.” Apple Apple says the new mo... |
DeepL takes aim at Grammarly with the launch of Write, to clean up your prose | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | On the heels of raising a , DeepL is taking the wraps off a new language product, the first extension for a startup that made its name from its popular AI-based translation tools. is a new tool that fixes your writing — catching grammar and punctuation mistakes, offering suggestions for clarity and more creative phra... |
Amberflo wants to transform SaaS pricing with metered usage | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Over the years, software pricing has shifted from rigid seat licenses for on-prem legacy software to subscriptions with tiered pricing, as software shifted to the cloud in the early part of this century. The latter helped transform the way we think about pricing and revenue. founder and CEO Puneet Gupta thinks there i... |
DoorDash expands Starbucks partnership with plans to reach all US states by March | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Starbucks will become available for delivery via DoorDash across all 50 U.S. states by March, in an expansion of a partnership with the delivery service announced last year. In September, Starbucks and DoorDash first a partnership that would allow customers to order Starbucks items for delivery from their local store... |
AI21 Labs intros an AI writing assistant that cites its sources | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | , the AI that can write poems, emails, spreadsheet formulas and more, has attracted a lot of negative publicity lately. from sharing content generated by ChatGPT, saying that the AI made it too easy for users to flood the site with spammy answers. Then, New York City public schools prohibited students and teachers fr... |
CloseFactor raises $15.2M to automate repetitive sales processes | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Several years ago, co-founders Leena Joshi, Ben Cheung and Erik Buchanan experienced frustration with the amount of manual work they were putting into collecting information about sales and marketing accounts. The tools in the market were focused solely on the collection of information, they say, instead of curating wh... |
Cumul.io, a low-code embedded analytics platform for SaaS companies, raises $10.8M | Paul Sawers | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | , the company behind a low-code business intelligence (BI) analytics platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Belgium in 2015, Cumul.io works in a similar space to well-established BI incumbents such as Tableau and Looker,... |
US tech giants say Indian panel’s recommended competition act ‘absolutist and regressive’ | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 8 | An influential industry group that represents Google, Meta and Amazon, among other tech firms, has expressed concerns about the digital competition law recommended by an Indian parliamentary panel that seeks to regulate their alleged anticompetitive practices, calling the proposal “absolutist and regressive” in nature ... |
Google is piloting its own ‘soundbox’ in India for merchants to get audio-based payment alerts | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Soundboxes — hardware used by merchants that emits sounds every time a mobile payment is made — have taken off in India, where point of sale activity can get busy and voice alerts from the soundbox help alert multitasking shopkeepers and assistants to a transaction going through. Now, to keep pushing ahead to build out... |
Apple brings M2 Pro and Max chips to the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | There’s no big Apple event today (well, not in any , at least), but the company’s got quite a bit of news to share this morning. In addition to the new Mac Mini, a pair of new MacBook Pros just dropped, sporting souped-up M2 chips. The 14- and 16-inch versions of the company’s high-end laptops now ship with a choice o... |
DoorDash can now return your packages for you | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | DoorDash is offering that lets users request a delivery person to pick up their prepaid package from their home and drop it off at a UPS, FedEx or USPS location. The company began as part of a small beta test and is now officially rolling it out. For a fee of $5 for standard users or $3 for DashPass members, users ... |
Royal Mail warns of severe disruption after ‘cyber incident’ | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | U.K. postal service Royal Mail has said it’s experiencing “severe service disruption” following a cyber incident. In a published Wednesday, Royal Mail said it was unable to dispatch export items, including letters and parcels to overseas destinations, as a result of the cyberattack. It added that international parcel... |
Vitruvian’s Trainer+ is an all-in-one home gym that actually lives up to its promises | Darrell Etherington | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | The connected home gym gear craze probably experienced its zenith during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with indicators like Peloton’s fortunes pointing to waning interest as people get back to using their gym memberships. But the category still has plenty of potential, especially if the gear in question can comb... |
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and OpenAI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other, are commanding a lot of interest from investors, and today the latest of these is announcing a big round of funding. , a startup that provides instant translation-as-a-service both to busines... |
Komunal raises $8.5M to digitize Indonesia’s rural banks | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | is reaching out to Indonesia’s rural customers by going where they are. The fintech partners with more than 220 banks in tier 2 and tier 3 cities spread through 19 provinces. Founded in 2019, the startup announced today it has raised $8.5 million in funding led by East Ventures Growth Fund, with participation from Alp... |
Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Alice Delahunt believes the future of fashion is in web3 and created Syky (pronounced “psy-key”) to put the wheels in motion. She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social mar... |
Wyze launches its new $34 pan and tilt security camera | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | It’s only been a few days since CES closed its doors, but there are still plenty of new gadgets to be had. Some companies, after all, would rather not launch their products into the noise that is the world’s largest consumer electronics show. Seattle-based is one of these. The company made its name by launching an ... |
Max Q: Anomalous | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Last week wasn’t the most successful for spaceflight missions. We’ll get into that a bit more below. In this issue: After Virgin Orbit’s launch failure last Monday, during which the mission experienced an that prevented the rocket from reaching orbit, I went back over the company’s fi... |
If your CEO isn’t pitching to VCs, you’ll never raise money | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot like sales, and if you hav... |
The Edit LDN raises seed round to serve sneakerheads around the world | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Before founding , Moses Rashid frequented sneaker festivals and exhibitions to buy limited-edition shoes. But Rashid, who describes himself as a “huge sneakerhead,” was often disappointed by the shopping experience. “I found it crazy that I was dropping $850 on a pair of sneakers but I wouldn’t even get a bag to bring... |
India to spend $320 million to promote homegrown payments network | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | India will spend nearly $320 million to promote cards on RuPay and for low-value UPI transactions, the latest in a series of moves by New Delhi to fuel the growth of its homegrown payments network. New Delhi approved a plan Wednesday to spend $318.4 million for the promotion of RuPay debit cards and low-value person-to... |
Virgin Orbit’s botched launch highlights shaky financial future | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Virgin Orbit’s much-hyped launch from Cornwall, U.K. on Monday ended in failure, with the company announcing that the mission experienced an that prevented the rocket from reaching orbit. The “Start Me Up” mission attracted much attention; not only was it the company’s sixth launch, it was also billed as the first-ev... |
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