From cult favorites like “Bubba Ho-Tep” to modern classics like “Lady Bird,” Tubi has something for everyone.
Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M
2023 was the hottest year on record, it doesn’t look like we’re cooling down anytime soon. Rising temperatures have made farming increasingly difficult in areas that were once […]
Plane turbulence is getting worse. Scientists explain why.
Turbulence on airplanes is increasing, atmospheric scientists say. Some of these events, like the recent turbulence aboard a Singapore Airlines flight, can be violent.
Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve […]
ETF Partners raises €284M for climate startups that will be effective quickly—not 20 years down the road
While many climate investors focus their efforts on breakthrough, deep-tech solutions, Patrick Sheehan at ETF Partners has other ideas. “I’ve actually got nothing against carbon capture and storage, […]
Sample Seed pitch deck: Goodcarbon’s $5.5m deck
Carbon credits (and the trading thereof) is big business, but it can be needlessly complicated to get those resolved. Goodcarbon just raised a €5.25 million (around $5.5 million) […]
Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa
Climate change is not just about removing carbon from the atmosphere or making more fuel efficient cars. It’s also about the food we eat. That’s the focus of […]
On Elon’s whim, X now treats ‘cisgender’ as a slur
If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by […]
Paris-based VC firm Blisce launches climate tech fund with a target of $160M
Blisce has become the latest VC firm to launch a fund dedicated to climate tech, for which it plans to raise as much as €150 million (about $162 […]
SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing
SAP chief sustainability officer Sophia Mendelsohn has been on the job since September, but her career really goes back to her undergraduate years at Harvard when she studied […]