One of the easiest shots to take at the delivery bots some of us see trundling around techy cities is that they can’t climb stairs, curbs, or any […]
Sample Seed pitch deck: Pepper Bio’s $6.5M deck
Happy New Year, and welcome to the 78th installment of Pitch Deck Teardown! This week, we are taking a closer look at Pepper Bio‘s seed pitch deck that […]
Startups Yearly: The biggest startup stories from 2023
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Thank you for subscribing to Startups Weekly. This week, I’m taking my parents […]
The outlook for startups in 2024 is hazy
Even though the economy is signaling a bit of a bounce-back, 2024 might not be much better than 2023 when it comes to startups sharing a piece of […]
TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 agenda first look: Engine Accelerator, Y Combinator, Glasswing Ventures and more will join us in Boston
TechCrunch Early Stage returns to Boston on April 25, 2024, and the agenda for our flagship founder event is shaping up. We’re excited to share this sneak peek […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Metafuels’ $8M climate tech seed deck
About 2% of the world’s CO₂ emissions come from pressurized, jet-powered sausages careening through the air. Earlier this week, I covered one startup, Metafuels, that thinks it has […]
Here’s where founders screw up their pitch decks most often
What happens when you feed a few thousand pitch decks to an AI, analyze them all, and figure out what the most common problems are for founders trying […]
Take the time to brush up those pitch decks
The holidays are in full swing, which means you might start getting automatic-reply emails as people take off on vacation. But don’t let the relative calmness of the […]
Fundraising trends for 2024: Get to the point, explain ‘why now’
Thanksgiving is long behind us, so unless you’re already in due diligence with a VC, you may as well pack up your fundraising knapsack and chill out until […]
Deep tech startups must use these 4 techniques when fundraising
Roman Axelrod Contributor Roman Axelrod is the founder of XPANCEO, a deep tech company developing the next generation of computing via an invisible and weightless smart contact lens. […]