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Who’s ready for startup bootcamp, TechCrunch style? On April 14 — that’s less than a month away — TechCrunch Early Stage kicks off a day-long summit focused exclusively on new founders and emerging entrepreneurs. Learn about the essential skills every startup founder needs to know — from successful founders, experienced VCs and subject-matter experts. Pro Tip: […]... →

It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. The “layout Roomba,” as the company puts it. At the time, the company had […]... →

TC Sessions: Climate 2022 — our first annual day-long summit focused on early-stage climate tech founders, builders and the investors who fund them — takes place at UC Berkley’s Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, Calif., on June 14 with an online event to follow on Thursday, June 16. Attention early-stage founders: Ready for a hot tip […]... →

Say what you will — Nothing knows how to tease a teaser. In the hardware startup’s defense, it noted that this morning’s event would be a “roadmap” reveal, specifically referring to another device coming to its lineup, without offering much in the way of information on said product. The company has, however, confirmed the much-rumored […]... →

Snap this morning confirmed that it has acquired NextMind for an undisclosed sum. The Paris-based startup is best known for its self-titled controller, which utilizes brain signals to move images on a PC interface. After announcing a $399 dev kit at CES, the company began shipping in Q2 2020. We took it for a spin […]... →

RapidAPI, the startup that has built a platform that helps businesses find and integrate third-party APIs, as well as manage their own usage of their own internal APIs, has picked up another big round of funding of $150 million — underscoring both its growth and that of the so-called API economy, where digital services that […]... →

Scratchpad began life as an easy way to add information to Salesforce by acting as a layer that sits on top of the popular CRM application, but the startup’s founders knew it needed to be more than sales utility, and today it announced a new capability that makes Scratchpad a central workspace for sales people […]... →

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise, has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 billion just weeks after emerging from stealth with $100 million in initial funding. The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks […]... →

Февраль 2022 года запомнится российскому венчуру не сделками, однако до того, как статус российских предпринимателей изменился, стартапы с русскими корнями активно получали инвестиции как от местных, так и зарубежных инвесторов.  Больше всего внимания привлекли сделки в сегментах FinTech, Food и Games. Всего мы насчитали более 30 сделок. Наибольшую сумму инвестиций в $114 млн получила финтех-компания Vivid Money, меньше всего в нашем списке — $200 тысяч — привлек музыкальный стартап Amadei.  В ближайшее вре... →

DeepMind — это исследовательская лаборатория искусственного интеллекта, которую Google приобрела за $500 млн в 2014 году. За последнее десятилетие она собрала ведущих специалистов в области ИИ. Выходцев из DeepMind можно сравнить с «мафией PayPal» — бывшими сотрудниками, которые стали венчурными капиталистами и основателями всемирно известных компаний. Более десятка сотрудников покинули ее, чтобы запустить собственные проекты — от НКО и энергетики до криптовалют. Рассказываем о них подробнее.... →

Dongnae, a South Korea-based startup that helps tenants find premium apartment rentals, has closed $16.4 million (20 billion KRW) in equity and $4.1 million (5 billion KRW) in debt. The Series A funding brings its total funding raised to approximately $34 million (40 billion KRW).  Investors include NFX, Daol Investment, Hana-Magna, Hana Financial, MetaProp, Fursys, […]... →

As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. “Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra […]... →

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Unstoppable Domains, a popular blockchain naming system provider, is putting together a funding round at a valuation of $1 billion, three people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is in talks with a number of new and existing investors including Draper Associates, Coinbase Ventures, Protocol Labs and Naval Ravikant to raise about $60 […]... →

Yuga Labs, maker of the multimillion monkey NFTs that plenty of people love to hate, just raised a $450 million round from Andreessen Horowitz at a $4 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday. The NFT firm behind Bored Apes Yacht Club has not previously raised funding though the startup has long been courting attention from […]... →

Once investors started shaving value from high-flying stocks, it changed the game for early-stage valuations, says Navin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield.... →

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the […]... →

Firefly Aerospace’s rollercoaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. Aerospace private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced last month that it had reached an agreement to acquire a “significant stake” in Firefly after […]... →

Chinese startup Rokid has been through a few stages of transformation over its eight years of existence, and it’s recently raised some new funding to stay afloat. The Temasek-backed company started out as a smart speaker maker when the vertical was all the rage in China in mid-2015s, but it has in recent years put […]... →