The venture capital market may still be trying to sort itself out, yet venture capital firms remain optimistic in closing new funds. Ubiquity Ventures is the latest firm, […]
EV charging startup Electra secures $330 million
It’s not often that you see a $300 million+ Series B round that is entirely in equity. And yet, Paris-based startup Electra just raised a a $330 million […]
Carta takes heat, Samsung unveils an upgraded Ballie, and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to cars
Hello, fine friends, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular recap of noteworthy happenings in tech over the past few days. Our team on the ground […]
D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services
Logistics has become the cornerstone of how so much works on earth — we may order things online, but ultimately we need to get products and ourselves from […]
What happens to Carta now?
Cap table management startup Carta has been dealing with a PR nightmare for the past couple of days. This isn’t Carta’s first public scandal, to be clear, but […]
After taking credibility hit, Carta announces it is exiting the secondaries business: “We have decided to prioritize trust”
Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of […]
German startup Pitch switches CEO and lays off two-thirds of its workforce
Pitch, the company behind a collaborative presentation software for businesses, is scaling back and bootstrapping, with CEO and co-founder Christian Reber stepping down and two-thirds of its employees […]
Bitcoin ETFs, Carta’s latest mess, and let’s go to the Moon
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the […]
Carta, the cap table management outfit, is accused of unethical tactics by a prominent startup
Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups, and employees to use its software to manage their cap […]
Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January. It was building a commercial container testing […]