The Reddit and Astera Labs IPOs last week ate up a lot of media oxygen. And with good reason, the two tech IPOs priced well and traded with […]
Truth Social SPAC could pay Trump’s astronomical legal bills – if board OKs it
Donald Trump’s beleaguered SPAC deal is finally going through, and just in time to pay nearly half a billion dollars owed over several legal actions — if the […]
TechCrunch Space: RIP $ASTR | TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Happy South by Southwest week for all who celebrate. On to the news. Want to reach out with a tip? Email […]
Profitable car rental service Turo is still ready for an IPO, but its growth cratered in 2023
Turo, the venture-backed, peer-to-peer car rental service reported its fourth-quarter and full-year financial performance this week in an updated IPO filing. The company first filed an S-1 to […]
Astra is the space industry’s first SPAC bust of 2024
Astra Space, the launch company that went public in 2021 at a $2.1 billion valuation, is going private again after months of burning cash and failing to secure […]
Google releases new open LLMs, Rivian lays off staff and Signal rolls out usernames
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launched two new open large language models, Gemma […]
Byju’s investors unanimously vote to remove founder
A group of Byju’s investors on Friday voted to remove the edtech group’s founder and chief executive Byju Raveendran and separately filed an oppression and management suit against […]
Byju’s says $200 million rights issue that cuts valuation by 99% fully subscribed
Byju’s says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully-subscribed, but the startup’s founder urged some of its major investors to participate amid a rift between […]
MariaDB’s potential take-private deal is an indictment of 2021’s SPAC mania
The potential sale of MariaDB to K1 Investment Management for $37 million is a capstone on the failed era of SPAC mergers that gained prominence for a brief […]
Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system (RDBMS) confirmed it had received a provisional […]