On Monday, Fearless Fund’s cofounder Ayana Parsons announced that she was stepping down from her leadership role from the firm. She will no longer be its general partner […]
From Brex exec to venture capitalist
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at a Brex exec’s jump to join venture firm a16z, Klarna selling off its payments unit and some mega-raises. To get […]
Maximize your deal flow at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Investors, you know you need to keep your pipelines primed, and one of the best places to find early-stage startups with promising portfolio potential is, you guessed it, […]
General Catalyst leads $40M round for Local Kitchens, a different kind of restaurant kitchen startup
At a time when companies are shuttering their cloud and ghost kitchens, Local Kitchens is proving its tech-enabled multi-brand restaurant concept is a business model that can work. […]
Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and 2022, many people […]
What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?
The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the burgeoning artificial intelligence space, with […]
Kevin Hartz’s A* raises its second oversubscribed fund in two years
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are […]
Kevin Hartz’s A* raises its second oversubscribed fund in three years
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are […]
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot
Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another deal in the works could cement that position even further. Poolside.ai, a […]