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It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing.
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Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering.
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Park and recreation organizations help communities thrive.
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Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction.
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Smart water bottle-maker Larq this week announced that it has been acquired by filtration giant, Brita.
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Another proptech startup has run into trouble.
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Claim, a platform that is both a rewards app and a social network, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Spiff, a platform that automates commission management for sales teams.
IBM is doling out €2.13 billion ($2.3 billion) to acquire a duo of data integration assets from Germany-based enterprise software company Software AG.
What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common?
The investment arm of the UK retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup,
Companies are increasingly curious about AI and the ways in which it can be used to (potentially) boost productivity.
Metafuels sets out to change the landscape of sustainable jet fuel, and has just picked up an $8 million suitcase from baggage carousel 3 at its local ZRH. Ahh, Zurich.
AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January.
French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round.
Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry.
Carbon Maps is a relatively new entrant in the carbon accounting space as it is less than one year old.
It’s only appropriate that, during AWS’ biggest week of the year, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup closed a sizeable funding round.
Many companies are trying to use AI chatbots (beyond ChatGPT) in different industries
AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves.
SEVA intends to invest in New York-based customer-centric founders of fast-growing, bootstrapped companies to scale via profitable growth.
Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku, grew up with a blind father who lost eyesight at the age of four due to congenital glaucoma.
The future is going to be electric, but in the air and on the water that transition is proving more difficult than on land.
Remote, the HR tech company that allows companies to hire, manage and pay remote workers, is launching a remote job marketplace called Remote
Atlas, a 3D generative AI platform, is launching today after two years in stealth with $6 million in seed funding.
E-commerce in Southeast Asia grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that momentum is continuing.
Upciti is a French startup that has been working on a hardware sensor for city centers that is easy to install and maintain.
Chptr, an app for sharing and holding onto memories of lost loved ones, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.
There’s a new unicorn in town, and its name is Enable.
Appetite, an app for discovering and booking restaurants, is aiming to streamline the process of planning nights out with friends and family.
When TechCrunch covered Carepatron’s pre-seed last year, it was focused on serving solo practitioners and small health practices.
By Kyle Wiggers. Grants are the lifeblood of many organizations. But procuring them often turns out to be a time-consuming, labor-intensive process.
Organizations today rely on a growing number of apps to get work done.
Nectar AI will help brands find new ways to personally engage and convert consumers where they spend the most time.
Norway-based Soundboks just released its latest $1,000 Bluetooth speaker.
Getting answers to tough, qualitative questions about products from users can be costly, both in terms of time and money.
Many doctors are overwhelmed by paperwork, leaving them stretched thin, with less time to see patients.
Ola Electric said on Thursday that it has raised $384.43 million in a funding round.
Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds.
Statement, a startup developing a platform for enterprise cash flow management, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding.
Passwordless authentication offers a host of advantages over traditional pins, passphrases and passcodes.
Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday.
Creative Force helps retailers and brands create content at scale for marketing campaigns and online merchandising.
The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years.
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Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic.
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It’s easy to start a startup. But it’s far more difficult to shut one down.
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Sometimes the work of having a job takes time away from work.
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French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer.
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Job references are an important part of hiring the right person, especially for remote positions.
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Microplastics are everywhere — quite literall.
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The platform offers tools and infrastructure so that visual artists can be discovered and sell their art.
We all know how important data quality is.
Ramp continues to ramp up its business.
If you ask Pankaj Patel, there’s too much complexity in networks today — particularly enterprise networks.
Meet Pollen, a new French startup that wants to provide a better way to learn new skills.
Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal.
Helpful's app brings insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving resources into one place.
It would be fair to say there’s no global solution for instant 24/7 access to mental health support.
Amazon might have the monopoly on physical goods sold online.
Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows.
During the pandemic, the digitisation of the freight industry took off like a rocket, and stayed that way.
In 2023, funds of funds (FoFs) are on track to raise the smallest amount of money this year in more than a decade.
The success of large language models like GPT has sparked a frenzy of developers eager to make AI-powered applications.
Frst, the Paris-based VC firm with no vowel in its name, is in the process of raising its second fund.
With the new fund, Positive Ventures intends to invest in between 20 and 25 companies at the pre-seed and seed levels.
OurX has seven products currently for tightly textured hair, and the average regimen of products offered is between $115 and $130.
French startup Escape has raised a $3.9 million (€3.6 million) funding round shortly after ending Y Combinator’s winter 2023 cohort.
Stripe wants to make it easier for businesses to access credit.
Wefox, the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors.
Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves.
Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto.
French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change.
Many employee engagement and retention tools were created with the assumption that workers spent most of their time at desks.
Poparazzi, the once-hot photo-sharing app that hit the top of the App Store in 2021, is shutting down.
French startup Kate has raised a $7.6 million (€7 million) funding round from a bunch of business angels.
Rally provides one-click checkout and post-purchase offers that allow the merchant to inject offers after the checkout.
Meet Thynk, a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry.
French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies.
Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be.
OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases.