Hawcx, backed by Engineering Capital, aims to solve passkeys' adoption challenge with its new tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
African VC firm Equator has raised $55M for its first fund, which will back early-stage climate tech startups on the continent. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Apple’s next set of major updates for the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems could bring the biggest design changes across the company’s platforms in years, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous…
Reshape Energy is betting on a more integrated approach to accelerate the decarbonization of the built environment. Founded in Munich, Germany back in May 2024, the startup is led by…
A new venture firm called Leitmotif has been on a quiet blitz for the last 16 months, funding around 20 startups broadly focused on decarbonization. Its portfolio includes EV companies,…
Hexa is trying something new. Instead of fostering startups from the ground up and incubating them for the first year or so, the Paris-based startup studio is acquiring a majority…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Medical imaging is a broad term that encompasses several distinct technologies. After working on AI-powered tools to enhance X-rays and mammographies, French startup…
Infinite Uptime, which offers predictive maintenance solutions for factories, has raised $35 million in a Series C round to expand its footprint in the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
Dustin Moskovitz is retiring from Asana, the software company he founded in 2008. Asana, a task management platform, announced his retirement as part of the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report,…
In an interview with Fox’s Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce federal spending,…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s…
Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over how they want…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points In a grandmaster-level chest move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with GPU-heavy cloud service, CoreWeave, Reuters reports citing people close…
Rad Power Bikes CEO Phil Molyneux has stepped down as part of a wider strategic reshuffling at the acclaimed electric bicycle company. The company told TechCrunch that Chief Financial Officer…
Bluesky now allows videos that are up to 3 minutes long, the decentralized social network announced on Monday. The platform launched support for video back in September with a 60-second…
Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt,…
Poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner didn’t mince words: He thinks that most companies looking to build foundation AI models should instead focus on building applications. Poolside is an AI-powered…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Unlike AI competitors, DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng is in no hurry to get investment from outsiders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Unlike AI competitors, DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng is in no hurry to get investment from outsiders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun. At…