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Fundraising
Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund
3 days ago
Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an…
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GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
GPTZero’s growth and financials made it one of the AI startups ruthlessly pursued by VCs. And Footwork’s Nikhil Basu Trivedi won the deal.
9:00 am PDT • June 13, 2024
Startups
Rippling bans former employees who work at competitors like Deel and Workday from its tender offer stock sale
3:20 pm PDT • June 7, 2024
Investor demand has been so strong for Rippling’s shares that it is letting former employees particpate in its tender offer. With one exception.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Vinod Khosla is coming to Disrupt to discuss how AI might change the future
8:30 am PDT • May 22, 2024
Few figures in the tech industry have earned the storied reputation of Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures. For over 40 years, he has been at the center…
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I’m rooting for Melinda French Gates to fix tech’s broken ‘brilliant jerk’ culture
Women in tech still face a shocking level of mistreatment at work. Melinda French Gates is one of the few working to change that.
9:00 am PDT • May 19, 2024
Startups
With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back
11:00 am PDT • May 18, 2024
When Jeffrey Wang posted to X asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the post to go viral.
Startups
How Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M
8:00 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Y Combinator’s founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That’s how medical records AI startup Hona was founded.
AI
Why code-testing startup Nova AI uses open source LLMs more than OpenAI
11:08 am PDT • April 24, 2024
Enterprises still don’t trust OpenAI, while open source AI models are cheaper and more than sufficient for targeted specific tasks, Nova AI founder says.
Startups
a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund
6:00 am PDT • April 19, 2024
Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just promoted Jennifer Li to general partner to help lead infrastructure investments.
AI
Here’s how Microsoft is providing a ‘good outcome’ for Inflection AI VCs, as Reid Hoffman promised
3:50 pm PDT • March 21, 2024
Exactly how much Microsoft is paying all the investors of Inflection AI as part its oddly structured deal to abscond with the co-founders, much of the staff and the rights…
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Astera Labs IPO will reveal how much investors want in on AI
While the technology world breathlessly awaits Reddit’s public debut, another company you might never have heard of is about to go public: Astera Labs.
12:59 pm PDT • March 19, 2024
Startups
Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already raised a second $360 million fund
8:00 am PDT • March 14, 2024
After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic has already closed a second fund, even…
Venture
Ex-Brex exec Sam Blond is already leaving Founders Fund just 18 months after he joined
12:41 pm PST • March 4, 2024
Sam Blond is leaving Founders Fund, as well as the profession of venture capitalist, just 18 months after he joined the storied Silicon Valley firm. In a tweet on Monday,…
