A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a...
Thousands of new venture capital funds have launched over the past few years, each hoping to carve out a long-term, lucrative place for...
Go on, let bots date other bots
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience.
During...
Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team
At the start of the year, Tesla’s Supercharger team was tasked with the impossible. “We were on an exponential path,” a former team...
Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided
Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news.
This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event,...
SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right...
SAP chief sustainability officer Sophia Mendelsohn has been on the job since September, but her career really goes back to her undergraduate years...
Garena is quietly making India-themed games even as Free Fire’s relaunch remains doubtful
Game studio Garena found itself in the middle of a geopolitical struggle when the Indian government banned its hit game, Free Fire, over...
VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its...
Venture capital has been hit hard by souring macroeconomic conditions over the past few years and it’s not yet clear how the market...
Meesho, an Indian social commerce platform with 150M transacting users, raises $275M
Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with about 150 million transacting users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round, the...
Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech — within limits
AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least.
Announced in...
Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: What we know so far
OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement planned for 10 a.m. PT on Monday — but it’s trying to keep expectations under control.
The company is...
Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts
Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund...
