TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 The hype and speculation that has been rampant for weeks drove up the stock price of Churchill Capital IV Corp. billion in total funding to Lucid.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, California-based lidar company, said Tuesday it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition fund CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp., Quanergy says the proceeds from the SPAC transaction will be used to accelerate research and development, pay down debt and fund working capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

In happier and better news, TechCrunch Early Stage is coming up in just a few months and not only am I hype about it, I’ll hopefully be there IRL. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. See you soon! The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. Pour some extra coffee, and get hype. You can follow the show on Twitter here. I also tweet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Mythic , an AI chip startup that last November reportedly ran out of capital, rose from the ashes today with an unexpected injection of fresh funds. But funding is drying up. attempts to gain an upper hand against threats from adversaries, including China and Russia. In 2022, there was $7 billion invested in VC-backed U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Developers, developers, developers: He Rose to the occasion : Kevin Rose is a partner at the VC firm True Ventures, but his latest project is an NFT startup called Proof Collective, which recently launched a much-hyped 10,000 NFT collection of pixelated owls. Lucas ’ interview with the startup veteran is fascinating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

“Gogoro will use the fresh funds from its IPO to continue to expand in Taiwan as it branches outward to larger markets like China, India and Indonesia,” writes transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe. venture capital activity,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yahaha , a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. And that’s where Yahaha comes in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Artifact , the new personalized news app from Instagram’s co-founders , is another startup whose funding was caught up in the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and co-founder Kevin Systrom believes there could be more trouble to come for Silicon Valley. After all, China doesn’t allow our social networks, like Facebook and Instagram.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

” India has banned hundreds of apps besides TikTok, including PUBG Mobile, Battlegrounds Mobile India and UC Browser, with ties to China amid skirmishes at the border of the two neighboring nations. In recent remarks, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U.S. Read her thorough piece for more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . China and the EU are investing heavily in production of graphene at an industrial scale. Still, the U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The metaverse cometh for us : The TechCrunch crew has been chewing on the metaverse for a while now, trying to tease out substance from hype, and real possibility from rank speculation. And, to close out our startup coverage, China-born audio networking application Tiya is building out its footprint in Singapore. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I spend a lot of time thinking about the 5G hype cycle, and how it didn’t pan out, and I was made to believe that there was some sort of race to 5G that was important. But what struck me about it was, we did hear all of this hype about 5G, specifically as it related to self-driving cars. You see what China is doing.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

And, of course, I had to push on the hype around the Aokiverse — Steve calls it a social club that will combine Web3, Web2, and IRL experiences. I started a private fund with Eminem called Eminoki, just using our money. Because, of course. What does that really mean? And how is he actually going to manage that community?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Of course, to land any funding, you typically have to be based there and focused on the Chinese market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

.” A flurry of new S-1s in a single week forced me to rearrange our editorial calendar, but I didn’t mind; our 360-degree coverage let some of the air out of various hype balloons and uncovered several unique angles. What China’s fintech can teach the world. Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images).

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TechNode

JUNE 12, 2024

However, many AI application companies are currently being overvalued amid the hype, which was the consensus among guests at the Summit. Theres no doubt that geopolitical tensions are exacerbating the technology decoupling between China and the US markets. De-risking or global collaboration?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

How is the startup funded? He found some, sort of — it appears that the startup was founded, and perhaps funded, by the same person (or people behind) another EV startup called Neuron, which had ties to China but disappeared from the US startup scene as quickly as it arrived. What are its plans to build these vehicles?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. Aside from those firms with funds in the bank, I’ve been working to map out how it will impact robotics companies in the longer term. In the aftermath of SVB’s shutdown, an already slow funding environment will be even slower.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 1: How StockX became the stock market of hype. Last year could well have been the dawn of alternative protein in China. Of these, Starfield, Hey Maet, Vesta and Haofood have been around for about a year; ZhenMeat was founded three years ago; and Green Monday is a nine-year-old Hong Kong firm pushing into mainland China.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The trend is mirrored in China. Despite the hype surrounding AIs transformative potential across multiple industries, a significant gap remains between expected revenues from AI infrastructure investments and the actual growth of AI-driven ecosystems. In China alone, the eyewear market is expanding rapidly. Why AI glasses?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

is imposing on China. Rita reports the company said it will not be able to export two of its AI chips to China, its second-largest market. That will likely cost Nvidia some $400 million in lost sales for this third quarter and interrupt some production that happens in China.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams Imagine you’re a podcaster who’s been recording your show at CBS Radio, a venerable, if not unglamorous spot. You’re the star at the podcasting hype house. The story of the hype house starts, as many do, with the promise of money. It was a nice place.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

It’s one in a long series of examples of the company hyping a new product early because it was desperate to raise more money to keep goingand to boost the image of Musk as a visionary leader, able to build something that other car companies couldnt. The hype for the Model S started long before the first Roadsters had ever been sold.

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Futurism

MARCH 1, 2025

In better times, Musk might've been able to write off the tumble as a blip, a momentary market fluctuation, since the hype-driven stock has always tended to be volatile. Sales have also slowed in China , slipping by 11.5 The losing streak finally came to an end on Friday, but it's a small reprieve amidst a lengthy slump.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 5, 2025

” Robotics Roomba Creator Says Humanoid Robots Are Overhyped Rocket Drew | The Information “‘Weve hardly started on humanoid hype,’ [Rodney] Brooks said. Now, humanoids, machines built to look like humans and powered by AI, are poised to move into our homes so they can help with the daily chores.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

All in the startup : Yes, startup founders matter when it comes to securing funding, but Ensemble amassed $100 million in capital commitments for its debut fund on the premise that behind every founder is a team that also matters when it comes to a company being successful. Becca tells you how. And we have five more for you: Security!

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Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

Selling promises of an automation revolution, startups and established tech giants alike have courted billions in funding to fuel AI development. That dream is looking more elusive by the day, as China's DeepSeek model squashes support for the kind of AI development CoreWeave represents , and AI profits largely remain a fantasy.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The latest electric vehicle startup to cash in on a new wave of hype and investment in the space is Li Auto, a five-year-old Chinese company that started trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday after raising $1.1 With Tesla recently becoming the world’s most valuable automaker, there is suddenly a renewed focus on funding EV startups.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

It talks a big game about inclusion and platform integrity, but the reality has often been found to be running far behind the hype. Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games that lack government approval from its App Store in China next month. On the other: Snap had been setting itself up to take this fall for years.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Apple is facing its toughest environment in China in years amid the decline of US-China relations. Apple operates the App Store in China without government licenses and local partners, but it’s having to walk an increasingly difficult line between placating Chinese officials and not triggering a backlash back home. And finally.

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