Longtime New York-based seed investor, Contour Venture Partners, is making progress on its latest flagship fund after lowering its target. The firm closed on $42 million, raised from […]
Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine
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 […]
Meet the Magnificent Six: A tour of the stages at Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt has always been the ultimate convergence point for all things startup and tech. In the bustling world of innovation, it serves as the “big top” tent, […]
Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A
PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations (HOAs), is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. It just raised […]
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 […]
Inside TabaPay’s drama-filled decision to abandon its plans to buy Synapse’s assets
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we look at the drama around TabaPay deciding to not buy Synapse’s assets, as well as stocks dropping for a couple of fintechs, […]
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast
Glue AIImage Credits: Glue If you use Slack at work, you’ve likely noticed that the number of channels you’re invited to proliferates incessantly. David Sacks, one quarter of […]
Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was […]
Fairgen ‘boosts’ survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses
Surveys have been used to gain insights on populations, products and public opinion since time immemorial. And while methodologies might have changed through the millennia, one thing has […]