Indian fintech startup Slice has completed its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, marking a rare instance of a startup successfully entering India’s tightly regulated banking sector. The merger,…
Mining is one of Stardew Valley's most addictive skills, with better rewards the deeper players venture. While some loot items are very valuable outside the mine, there are also many…
In this episode of the StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove spoke with Pranav Singhvi and Hemant Taneja of General catalyst, which is one of the biggest venture firms…
The startup uses standard silicon solar cells but connects them using bendy materials, giving them better durability and more flexibility. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.…
Jon McNeill — a former Tesla and Lyft executive and current CEO at DVx Ventures — spread the word last week at the World Business Forum on what he calls…
While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that hasn’t happened and isn’t likely to in the next two months. NASDAQ CEO…
A couple of years ago, Israeli startup CogniFiber made headlines with Deeplight, a fiber-optic cable which could, “process complex algorithms within the fiber itself before the signal hits the terminal.”…
Ask any VC if we’re still in a venture capital bear market and that investor will almost certainly tell you no, that funding is still flowing for good companies. That…
Peer to Peer A San Francisco startup has supposedly broken the dream barrier. REMSpace claimed that it's achieved "new dimensions of communication" between two humans who were sleeping, by sending…
The NAACP announced today NAACP Capital, a $200 million fund of funds to back fund managers focused on issues that impact people of color. The fund was conceived in partnership…
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Several startups…
Rental car startup Kyte, which bills itself as the “best alternative to Hertz,” is pulling out of almost all of its major markets in the United States and has cut…
Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who’s who of Silicon Valley venture firms. Alphabet had previously announced…
Google’s parent company has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the AI startup and owns a 10% stake. Meanwhile, the Claude models are hosted with Google Cloud services.…
Silicon Valley A-listers are funding Pacific Fusion, a startup that founding CEO Eric Lander says will have a full-scale demonstration system within a decade. Source
The war in Ukraine has shown that warfare changes by the day. It’s also clear that the tech used to make war today is costly: While larger countries can afford legions…
From a Source mod to a full-scale online multiplayer game, No More Room in Hell 2 has really grown. For newcomers, No More Room in Hell 2 offers a huge…
The Verge AI startup Perplexity, which offers an AI search engine, published a blog post today pushing back on News Corp’s lawsuit against the company. Perplexity has recently come under…
Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle startup Joby Aviation has launched a public offering to sell up to $200 million of its shares of common stock, per a regulatory filing.…
Lumen Orbit has closed an oversubscribed, eight-figure seed round of more than $10 million, making it one of, if not the, hottest deal of the most recent Y Combinator batch,…