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Startups
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
8:00 AM PDT • May 8, 2024
Good news, crypto founders! Venture capital activity is picking up in the sector, recovering from the multiyear lows investments fell to in late 2023. Put…
Hardware
Apple’s Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once
7:38 am PDT • May 7, 2024
The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It’s a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam…
Hardware
Apple stacks two OLED screens — ‘Tandem OLED’ — in its new iPad Pro
7:25 am PDT • May 7, 2024
Yeah, you can put an OLED screen in an iPad, but then you lose the brightness that iPad Pro users are used to. What is a poor computer maker to…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper…
Startups
Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions?
12:05 pm PDT • May 3, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Musk’s…
Startups
ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle
3:00 am PDT • May 2, 2024
ButcherBox is known for grinding its way forward, bootstrapping to more than $600 million worth of revenue. The company hasn’t traditionally been on the M&A path, but today it announced…
Featured Article
Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup
“When an investor passes on you, they will not tell you the real reason,” said Tom Blomfield, group partner at Y Combinator. “At seed stage, frankly, no one knows what’s going to fucking happen. The future is so uncertain. All they’re judging is the perceived quality of the founder. When…
11:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
Startups
So are we banning TikTok or what? Also: Can an influencer really tank an $800M company?
12:05 pm PDT • April 26, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Ticktock,…
Aside from the crucial omission of an Ask and Use of Funds slide, just about every slide in the deck felt almost very good — but then stumbled by overlooking…
The Poetry Camera takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating poetry based on the visuals it encounters.
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. After…
While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.
Once a Kickstarter campaign is complete, you need to turn to a creator’s own page to buy the products after the campaign clock has ticked down — that is, until…
From remote work to magnetic keyboard switches, we have your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups.
Xpanceo has shared its complete presentation deck, consisting of 19 slides. Dive into its pitch deck to learn how the company raised $40 million.
Featured Article
Fellow steps away from its usual grind with $365 Aiden coffee machine
Coffee is a beverage, sure, but to many people, it’s more than that. It’s a ritual to find a pause in the day, rewarded by a tasty jolt of caffeine. For many years, Fellow has been top of mind for those looking to embrace the ritual. It’s a bit of…
7:30 am PDT • April 12, 2024
Startups
Startups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this time
12:05 pm PDT • April 5, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to receive the Startups Weekly newsletter in your inboxes. It’s…
This week we look at Queerie, a dating app aimed specifically at LGBTQIA+ folks. It’s a very early-stage company that’s raising just $300,000.
Nightside is the brainchild of Jess Gupta. The $350 LED bedside lamp is an intentionally simple product. It doesn’t have Wi-Fi or Alexa built in, but it does have a…
Hardware
Photoncycle targets low-cost energy storage with a clever hydrogen solution
3:30 pm PDT • April 2, 2024
For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer months for use during the winter has remained…
Featured Article
Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport
Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later, however, it’s clear that the initial pitch was merely the tip of the startup’s heating/cooling iceberg. TechCrunch recently sat down with Clay Alexander, the firm’s…
10:42 am PDT • March 31, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. There’s…
It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I…
In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma businesses face between leveraging AI’s power while ensuring data…
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Helloooo,…
AI
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away
2:13 pm PDT • March 19, 2024
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — often referred to as “strong AI,” “full AI,” “human-level AI” or “general intelligent action” — represents a significant future leap in the field of artificial…
Nvidia’s keynote at GTC on Monday held some surprises. In a way, it was a return to the company’s original mission.
Hardware
Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center
11:20 am PDT • March 19, 2024
Nvidia benefits tremendously if it can persuade companies to think of data centers and AI tools in a different way.
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Pornhub…
The company is promising to make marketing for games easier, and we know that great marketing is one of the crucial differences between an OK outcome and a smash-hit success.
