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TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place on September 19–21 in San Francisco and — if you don’t already know — it’s the startup world’s big tent. It draws founders, investors, CEOs, tech professionals, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs. It’s where you’ll find inspiration, gain knowledge, forge new relationships and discover tools to help you build […] Meet Visa, Mayfield, DuploCloud and more at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s guiding principles these days aren’t too difficult to find: discipline, focus and cash conservation. But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with […] Pitch for the check you want  by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

OpenAI, the startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT, has closed its new funding round of over $10.3 billion, TechCrunch has learned. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global are in the round, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also […] OpenAI closes its monster $10B funding round at $27B-29B valuation by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: First Republic Bank stock reaches record low as feds discuss rescue plan by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Let’s talk venture results, unique issues to the African startup scene, and look ahead to see if we can spy any good news on the horizon. After initially defying the global slowdown, African startups’ first quarter venture results fall by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in […] Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Clubhouse, a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its staff. The startup’s co-founders made the decision in response to customer habits changing in a post-COVID world and remote work complexities, according to a blog post. Those who were impacted will receive severance […] Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 million) at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round — a Series B extension — with participation from Khosla Ventures, Coatue, SV […] Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Luca, a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator (Luca was in Y Combinator’s winter 2023 class), Soma Capital and angel investors. Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together […] Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

It's possible to build a startup with a founder who wants to stay in academia, but it’s not without its challenges. Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

I wrote about half of last week’s Actuator on Wednesday in an empty office at MassRobotics after meeting with an early-stage startup. I’m not ready to tell you about them just yet, but they’re doing interesting work and have one of the wilder founding stories of recent vintage, so stay tuned for that. Also, shoutout […] Flipping is much easier than walking by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

This Irish startup without a bank account gives surplus wind power to those in need. Without a single euro changing hands, Irish nonprofit is helping to reinvent the grid by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch... →

Uber Freight, the logistics business spun out of Uber in 2018, is partnering with transportation fintech startup AtoB to offer carriers fuel cards and spend management software. AtoB, a four-year-old company that has been described as Stripe for transportation, offers an integrated financial platform based around its core product of a fuel card for truckers. Unlike […] Uber Freight offers carriers a fuel card powered by startup AtoB by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

More than 10,000 people from across the country and around the world will converge on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21. A startup crowd that size has a wide range of roles, interests and budgets, and we’re proud to offer six different pass types — plus a group option — to meet […] There’s a Disrupt pass for every role and budget by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

Easyship, the New York- and Singapore-based startup that enables e-commerce sellers to integrate with more than 250 courier services, announced today it has expanded its partnership with eBay to support eBay International Shipping, a newly-launched program. This means that buyers can now access more regional and express shipping solutions for international destinations through eBay’s platform. […] Easyship strikes agreement to support eBay’s new International Shipping program by Catherine Shu originally pub... →

Italian climate startup Energy Dome, which has developed a “CO2 battery” for storing renewable energy, has closed a €40 million (~$44M) Series B round — bringing the total raised for its novel energy storage solution to €54M (or just shy of $60M). The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian […] Energy Dome gets $44M uplift into its CO2 battery for renewable energy storage by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Кейс сервиса для продавцов на маркетплейсах: как мы помогли новому стартапу найти клиентов и не сошли с ума... →

The concept of SaaS as a business model changed the game in tech by moving users away from buying software outright and towards paying for service availability based on time-based subscriptions, typically with per-month or annual pricing. Today, a startup out of London called M3ter that is building tools to take the next step in […] M3ter locks in $14M to expand its usage-based pricing tools for SaaS businesses by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meet Bastion, a French startup that was created in October 2022 to help small companies tackle cybersecurity risks without too many complexities. Created by former Palantir employees, the company has already raised $2.8 million. What makes Bastion different from other cybersecurity startups is that it wants to be your first and last cybersecurity subscription. It […] Bastion is an all-in-one cybersecurity solution for small businesses by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →