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The new iPhone is ugly
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit old-fashioned when it comes to phones. Everyone scoffs at my iPhone SE, but the truth is it’s the best phone Apple ever made — a beautiful, well designed object in just about every way. But damn is the...
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AI is helping scholars restore ancient Greek texts on stone tablets
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Machine learning and AI may be deployed on such grand tasks as finding exoplanets and creating photorealistic people, but the same techniques also have some surprising applications in academia: DeepMind has created an AI system that helps scholars...
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Alphabet’s Wing begins making first commercial drone deliveries in the US
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Alphabet -owned drone delivery spin-out Wing is starting to service U.S. customers, after becoming the first drone delivery company to get the federal go-ahead to do so earlier this year. Wing is working with FedEx Express and Walgreens on this...
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Bloomberg Beta, now six years old, closes its third $75 million fund
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Bloomberg Beta, a San Francisco-based outfit that uses Bloomberg LP’s money to make bets on startups, has closed its third fund with $75 million, according to Roy Bahat, who’d previously run the online media company IGN and who operates the fund as...
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Greylock GP Sarah Guo is as bullish on SaaS as ever
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where each week we discuss other people’s money and what sense their investment choices make (or don't).
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Pendo scores $100M Series E investment on $1 billion valuation
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Pendo, the late stage startup that helps companies understand how customers are interacting with their apps, announced a $100 million Series E investment today on a valuation of $1 billion. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures . Also participating...
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Proportunity raises £2M seed for its ‘help to buy’-style property lending
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Proportunity, the startup that provides “help to buy”-style equity loans primarily for first time property buyers, has raised £2 million in additional funding. Billed as a seed round, backing comes from Anthemis, the fintech investor, and Axel...
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Shoe companies Rothy’s and Steve Madden are at each other’s throats
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In August, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the venture-backed shoe startup Rothy’s, shoe giant Steven Madden filed a pre-emptive lawsuit asking a federal court to rule that its Rosy Flat shoes don’t copy design elements of the Point...
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Canva, now valued at $3.2 billion, launches an enterprise product
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Canva, the Australian-based design tool maker, has today announced that it has raised an additional $10 million to bring its valuation to $3.2 billion, up from $2.5 billion in May. Investors in the company include Mary Meeker’s Bond, General...
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All Raise expands to new geos, launches ‘VC Cohorts’
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All Raise has established new chapters in Los Angeles and Boston.
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David Sacks’s Craft Ventures just closed its second fund with $500 million
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Craft Ventures, the venture firm launched in 2017 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, has closed its second fund with $500 million in capital commitments, an amount the firm was said to begin targeting roughly a year ago. Craft’s debut fund had...
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Thirty-one women who “run the world” — and what can be learned from them
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Today, a new book called “Girls Who Run the World” hits real and virtual bookshelves, and for anyone with a middle-school aged kid or looking to inspire a high-schooler, it might be worth checking out. Featuring 31 women who are the CEOs of...
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Spearhead will give $1M to 15 founders to invest freely
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Applications to Spearhead's third cohort open this week.
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TechCrunch Spearhead will give $1M to 15 founders to invest freely by 7d
Google’s Pixel 4 ships October 24, starting at $799
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The rumors and leaks have been pretty relentless. In fact, over the past three days, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL have gone up for preorder on at least two different sites. While it’s true that Google’s never been particularly great at keeping this...
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Interior design startup Havenly raises $32 million
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Interior design platform Havenly is raising $32 million in new funding to create its first private label brand as the startup aims to integrate its own products into its design recommendation engine. The Denver-startup is an online interior design...
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TechCrunch Interior design startup Havenly raises $32 million by 7d
Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikes
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Just how Android is the operating system for a number of mobile phones, Tortoise wants to be the operating system for micromobility vehicles, its co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko, who previously served as Uber’s director of business development, told...
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TechCrunch Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikes by 7d
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
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Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is announcing a major round of funding today to fuel its growth. The startup — which already has over...
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TechCrunch Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others by 7d
Surfing the reverse mullet with Alexis Ohanian
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For many years the allure of Silicon Valley was contingent on the ability to move here. Its ecosystem didn’t work remotely. “We see a very strong indication that where you’re located does matter… come to Silicon Valley,” intoned Joe Kraus of Google...
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Brad Feld: what founders need to know about recent changes in VC deal terms
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Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos hopped on the line with prominent investor, entrepreneur, thought leader,...
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Checking In On 2019’s IPO Cycle
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We have a special episode this week. Instead of our regular lineup, we got Alex on the phone with an IPO expert to dig...
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