TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The Times notes that Substack is one of many outfits right now facing new headwinds as investors snap their checkbooks shut amid rising interest rates that have severely dented tech stocks and slowed growth in the U.S. Andrew Chen, a general partner focused on consumer tech for a16z, led both deals. and global economies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

I will keep playing with the tech and the various software wrappers that are being built to productize GPT-3. The software gets the next sentence backwards, but is right back on the horse afterwards talking about how higher interest rates make exotic investment classes like venture capital less attractive! I was gobsmacked. This is cool.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Buzzy “social audio” app Clubhouse has raised a Series C funding round, reportedly valuing the company at $4 billion. This round means Clubhouse has tripled the valuation it attained in January when Andreessen Horowitz led its Series B funding round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Gone are the days when the New York startup ecosystem, perennially in Silicon Valley’s shadow, was more hype than substance. (In In recent news, Work-Bench recently raised a new $100 million fund.). Enterprise venture funding saw similar gains. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

But that’s ok, we dove deep into the hype and looked at what skeptics are worried about for the new application. federal courts FBI says North Korean hackers preparing to cash out after high-profile crypto hacks Friend.tech hype is skyrocketing, but will it actually reach the stars? federal agencies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Agora , a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Yesterday’s earnings deluge made plain that tech shares are not rocketing higher as 2020 comes to a close. But in most other reports there were signs of weakness or underperformance compared to expectations that could undermine the relentlessly bullish attitude tech shares have enjoyed for several months. Let’s take a look.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Failures are valuable IP: Protect your startup’s negative trade secrets A VC’s perspective on deep tech fundraising in Q1 2023 Image Credits: Xi Huo (opens in a new window) / Getty Images I learned something today: Successful deep tech startups and SaaS companies generally reach billion-dollar valuations in the same time frame.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million in funding, according to Crunchbase. . The whole field of AI-based novel targets has been experiencing significant hype. In 2019 Nature noted that at least 20 partnerships between major drug companies and AI drug discovery tech companies had been reported. However, the roots of the hype predate COVID-19. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

But as is the case with any transformative new tech, hype is sure to accompany growing adoption, and generative AI has garnered so much attention and money that many VCs already feel the budding sector will be the next bubble. Don Butler, managing director at Thomvest Ventures, feels the bubble is already here. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. It also requires a great deal of collaboration, which makes it an ideal playground for tech startups. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. growth equity firm Avenir Growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s one of the reasons why so many founders perform inadequate due diligence on their investors, says Talia Rafaeli, a partner with early-stage European VC fund Kompas. TechCrunch+ roundup: Dry powder’s slow fuse, landing page basics, generative AI hype by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. Gophr , a U.K.-based Leading the round is pan-European B2B investor Nauta Capital. Customers include leading consumer brands including HelloFresh, Boots, Co-Op and Selfridges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. million seed round of funding, and Heartex which closed a heftier $25 million tranche of funding last year for Labelstudio.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

million of funding for its AI-powered customer video review tool , Kate reports. Big Tech Inc. Choo choo : Natasha L has an additional morsel from Mobile World Congress, writing that the “ metaverse hype was hanging like a multicolored fog.” I like what you did here : Indent raises $8.1 You can sign up here. Today that is Uber.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The company is putting itself in the mix in the intersection between the car’s radar and its self-driving tech. “While showing lots of initial promise, lidar is failing to live up to all the hype, but the need for high-resolution systems hasn’t gone away. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And today it’s announcing a new €20M bridging funding round, ahead of the expected (beefier) B. It notes that this (pre-) Series B funding includes the issuance of convertible notes which will lead to equity next year in the full Series B round so a bunch of investors are clearly bought into its sales growth pitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The company has raised over $540 million in funding as a private company. And given some outsized first day pops from recent tech IPOs, it’s not too surprising to see a company like Coinbase opt for this path to public markets. Coinbase files to go public confidentially and we’re hyped.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

We are really fortunate to be investing at this time regardless of the hype.” ” Ascend is announcing the close of $25 million for its second fund. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. Winfield isn’t fully avoiding the hype though.

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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. As it turns out, Artificat’s financial crisis was short-lived.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the tech sector pours in tens of billions in a race for dominance and future profits, how should nonprofits and philanthropists be thinking about our role? Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. has likely put it near the peak of the hype cycle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

For example, a smart contract to support charity donations might enable the automatic and instantaneous release of funds to a charity once the donor receives proof of a promised action by the charity. Additional Blockchain and Crypto-philanthropy Resources: Crypto-philanthropy: How Bitcoin and Blockchain Are Disrupting the World of Giving.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. million worth of funding so far. Big Tech Inc. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. Li Jin, who coined the term “passion economy,” has closed her debut $13 million fund for startups within the same category. In very good Show News , Chris is back!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Starting at the front door, theres Level , the leader in smart locks, which finally upgraded its invisible system to sync with smart home hubs like Apple Home and Google Home via a low-tech radio connection. Level For making tiny, powerful home lock technology wi-fi compatable Hard door keys are becoming yesterdays technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

million seed funding of Humanity late last year. raises funding to allow us to monitor and affect our rate of aging. It has now raised yet another seed funding round, this time totalling $2.5 million, from 65 health-tech and consumer-tech investors, taking its total raised to $5 million. We already covered the $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Other strategic investors include Ronald Richardson, Avlok Kohli (CEO of AngeLlist Ventures) and the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF). The funding will be used to expand in North American and European markets. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2022

But in the last couple of weeks, I have heard about several venture-backed deals into the subsector of health tech. Market corrections after a period of hype are part of the investing game. They got me curious: In which areas of mental health are VC firms still willing to invest? Let’s explore. Mood swings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Rita reports that Cosmose, which recently closed on an undisclosed round of funding to value it at $500 million, is now working with Near’s crypto solution. Go on, another handful for ya: They just want to stay involvo : Frederic reports that Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Like Clubhouse, Dispo was one of this year’s most hyped up new social apps, requiring an invite from an existing member to join. Though Axios reported the app’s $20 million Series A funding news in February, Dispo put out a press release this morning confirming the financing event.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. Instead of a collapse, the data suggests a healthy “reversion to the mean” following an astonishing and historic hype cycle in 2021. Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of Copec. More posts by this contributor. In the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

But, on Diary of a CEO , he acknowledged that spending for the show went far beyond thatand the excess came from his own funds. TikToks Hype House could film themselves dancing for hours and hours, but failed when it came to reality television. His deal with Amazon was reportedly worth around $100 million. Still, these shows do well.

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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. Disrupt is this week , so strap thyself in for the best tech event of the year, coming to your living room.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

British autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has raised a $200 million Series B funding round from investors to scale its technology and expand its partnerships with commercial fleets. When we started the business in 2017, that was the peak hype cycle point of autonomous vehicles, with billions of dollars already invested.

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