Future Tech Ventures (FTV), a new venture capital firm focusing on startups in the Northern Netherlands, officially launched yesterday in Groningen. FTV debuted with a €20mn fund that will support at…
Sitting in Athens during the first COVID-19 lockdown, entrepreneur Rania Lamprou watched online e-commerce exploding because of social distancing. But merchants still struggled with low conversion rates because their checkout…
Belfius is leading Alan’s Series F funding round of €173 million (around $193 million at current exchange rates). © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is ditching human musicians for artificial intelligence, saying he’ll use only AI-generated tunes in future projects, a move that underscores AI’s growing reach in creative…
Amazon sellers now have access to an AI assistant designed to help grow their business by answering questions about their metrics, and later, helping to resolve issues that arise. The…
The startup will use turbomachinery to develop a heat pump capable of generating industrial-grade heat. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day think of an idea that could…
The governing body overseeing India's popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the…
Ashraf Hebela, J.P. Morgan’s Head of Startup Banking, may sit on the finance side of startups these days. But he once sat in the founder seat. It’s been his experience…
The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment. © 2024…
Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option:…
Amazon has named long-time executive Samir Kumar as the new head of its India consumer business, a month after its domestic business' head resigned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…
JPMorgan Chase is in talks to take over the Apple Card business from Goldman Sachs, The Wall Street Journal reports. Goldman has issued credit for the Apple Card since its…
Dustin Stockton is known as the “Godfather of Political Finance” but he wasn’t always known this way. He was originally heavily involved in campaigning for Donald Trump and was the…
Billing might not be something that the average person thinks about on a regular basis. But for companies — particularly those in the business of selling software — it’s massively…
Flink, a quick-commerce startup out of Berlin that was an acquisition target of Gorillas, Getir, Amazon, and Gopuff, is spelling out how it plans to go forth on its own.…
Amazon said on Tuesday that it will host its Prime Day-like sales event, “Prime Big Deal Days,” on October 8 and 9. For the last two years, the e-commerce company…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours last Tuesday morning carrying a private astronaut crew led by a billionaire entrepreneur. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a memo to the company’s employees Monday morning, calling for a full return to office at the start of 2025. For the last 15 months,…