Haje Jan Kamps, Author at TechCrunch

Tesla makes Musk best-paid CEO of all time and Fisker bites the dust

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:05:00 +0000

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. Elon Musk just convinced Tesla shareholders to approve his $56 billion pay package, making him the highest-paid CEO in history — assuming he can dodge a […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: Feel Therapeutics’ $3.5M seed deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:15:00 +0000

Feel Therapeutics has a pretty original deck, with some twists we rarely see; the company did a great job telling the overall story.

Startups Weekly: Clash of the AI titans, and Europe is firing on all cylinders

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:01:00 +0000

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. Hold on to your Apple Watches, folks! At WWDC 2024, Apple finally decided to give Siri a brain transplant with something they’re calling “Apple Intelligence” (AI—get […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: Kinnect’s $250K angel deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0000

How well did the company do telling its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let's take a look.

Wazer Pro is making desktop water jetting more affordable

Haje Jan Kamps — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:44:26 +0000

Before Wazer came along, “water jet cutting” and “affordable” didn’t belong in the same sentence. That changed in 2016, when the company launched the world’s first desktop water jet cutter, pre-selling $1.3 million worth of units. Fast-forward to today, and Wazer says it has over 3,000 cutters in the field across 60 countries, used by […]

Startups Weekly: Musk raises $6B for AI and the fintech dominoes are falling

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:05:00 +0000

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. In a twist that shocks absolutely no one and thrills pyromaniacs who love seeing money burn, Elon Musk’s newest venture, xAI, has snagged a casual $6 […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: RAW Dating App’s $3M angel deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The RAW Dating App aims to shake up the dating scheme by shedding the fake, TikTok-ified, heavily filtered photos and replacing them with a more genuine, unvarnished experience. The app targets young professionals and students, particularly women aged 21 to 27, who seek genuine interactions. The company’s team claims it raised a $3 million friends […]

Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere.

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 24 May 2024 19:05:00 +0000

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. Well, folks, it looks like Techstars’ drama just got a new plot twist. CEO Maëlle Gavet is making her exit, leaving co-founder David Cohen to swoop […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: Terra One’s $7.5M seed deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Terra One's pitch deck has a few wins, but also a few misses. Here's how to fix that.

Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 17 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Startups Weekly! We've been drowning in AI news this week, with Google's I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too.

Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread

Haje Jan Kamps — Thu, 16 May 2024 14:29:00 +0000

Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and use wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install. Adding solar power to the mix means that the company’s mission to blanket the country with cameras […]

Looking Glass launches new 3D displays

Haje Jan Kamps — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:50:00 +0000

Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens where things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today it launches a pair of new displays, including a 16-inch mode that runs $4,000. There’s also a 32-inch display, with an “if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it” price tag. The displays […]

Alora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the ‘landfill economy’

Haje Jan Kamps — Sun, 12 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product

Pitch Deck Teardown: Cloudsmith’s $15M Series A deck

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture.

Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000

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. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as the most valuable company in the world, Apple is kind of the ultimate “not a […]

Apple’s Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once

Haje Jan Kamps — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:38:00 +0000

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 production studio, enabling creatives to connect and preview up to four cameras all at once, all in one place. From the command post, directors can […]

Apple stacks two OLED screens — ‘Tandem OLED’ — in its new iPad Pro

Haje Jan Kamps — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:25:00 +0000

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 do? You stack two of them, of course. “We’ve always envisioned iPad as a magical sheet of glass,” said John Ternus, SVP, Hardware Engineering, during […]

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera

Haje Jan Kamps — Sun, 05 May 2024 15:03:50 +0000

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 takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. That’s not a typo—36 pixels, not 36 megapixels. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy […]

Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions?

Haje Jan Kamps — Fri, 03 May 2024 19:05:49 +0000

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 10-month-old baby, xAI, is closing in on a whoppin’ $6 billion funding round. The social network X, née Twitter — also part of Elon’s tech […]