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The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. “This is going to be tough next year. My estimate is that a lot of startup […] Flipkart chief warns startups of turmoil and funding crunch for another 12 to 18 months by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Fairmat closed a $35 million Series A funding round (€34 million) last month. It wants to turn carbon fiber composite that is no longer in use into a new material that can be used in new products. Temasek and CNP (Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille) are leading the round with Pictet Group, Singular, The […] Fairmat raises $35 million to recycle carbon fiber composite into a new material by Romain Dillet 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. Well, that didn’t take long. In late October, I wrote about how the tide is shifting on tech layoffs, highlighting that 70% of layoffs that […] Ok, I take back what I said about tech layoffs by Natasha Mascarenhas 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: Nuro founders admit aggressive hiring ‘was a mistake’ in email to laid-off workers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people, or 20% of its workforce in an effort to preserve cash amid a stormy economic outlook, according to an email sent to employees this morning. Several Nuro employees posted on Twitter and LinkedIn this morning […] Autonomous delivery startup Nuro lays off 20% of workforce by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch... →

Electric vehicle startup Nio is accelerating its expansion in Europe. The premium EV maker just launched its first power-swapping station in Varberg, Sweden, the company said in a LinkedIn post. When it comes to charging, Nio differentiates itself from its rivals by offering swappable batteries, which are upgradable and charge a monthly subscription fee, on […] China’s EV upstart Nio switches on power swap station in Sweden by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch... →

India’s space agency has successfully launched the Vikram-S after much anticipation and years-long work in a boost to the private sector of the nation’s space industry. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) kicked off the suborbital rocket at 11.30 a.m. local time Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India’s east coast. The […] India’s first private rocket, built by startup Skyroot, makes successful launch 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: Google upgrades Search, Shopping and Maps with more data, AR and accessibility by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI, was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake […] Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Beam, a startup that helps citizens access government financial aid, has raised $6.4 million in Series A funding. The company, previously known as Edquity, helps deliver funds across a wide array of programs, like emergency cash assistance, rental relief and public utility benefits. “We fundamentally work to transmit critical services and resources to those in […] Beam raises $6.4M to help citizens access safety net funds by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Plaid today announced that it has named Meta veteran John Anderson to serve as its new head of payments. The fintech startup has slowly been evolving its offerings beyond its core product of account linking. Earlier this year, it moved into identity and income verification. Payments feels like a natural evolution of its business.  In […] Plaid names former Meta exec as its new payments head by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

CCTV and other kinds of security cameras have a strong big brother vibe, but for many of us that may be because we don’t really understand or know how the footage they pick up ever gets used. Today, a startup called Spot AI that’s built a system to help answer that question at least in […] Spot AI raises $40M to build smarter CCTV security camera tech by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

FTX's bankruptcy filing speaks volumes about how quickly venture capitalists dropped their own advice to secure a seat on a rocket they were hoping would only go up. It did not. Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Speak, an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely […] Speak lands investment from OpenAI to expand its language learning platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

 Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today we have something a bit different for you. In light of the never-ending Musk-Twitter saga, and news that the new social media CEO had cut its corporate communications staff to the bone […] Corporate comms for the startup soul by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Investors and startup founders are desperately trying to convince us that web3 is the next logical phase of the web. Is it? Is web3 really the new phase of the internet? by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch... →

Fake news, and the identification and eradication of it, has long been thought of as the purview of social media platforms, where a lot of that tends to be shared. Today, one of the more ambitious tech startups in the field of fighting fake news is getting acquired — not by a social media platform, […] PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Денис Савельев (TexTerra): управление проектами и стартапами в условиях риска и неопределенности... →

French startup Virgil has raised a $15.6 million funding round (€15 million). The company invests in apartments alongside home buyers before they even get the keys for their new home. This way, future homeowners can buy a bigger place in exchange for an equity stake in their apartment. Home equity is a much more fluid […] Virgil helps you buy bigger apartments in exchange for home equity stakes by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

There’s nothing sexy about corporate retreats. But BoomPop, a 26-person, San Francisco-based outfit that the startup studio Atomic launched in 2020, is managing to infuse some sizzle in the historically staid industry. In fact, given what BoomPop is building, one can see it evolve into an option for more than companies looking to more easily […] BoomPop gains traction by designing high-end off-sites for our now remote-first world by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch... →