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It’s a good time to invest in early-stage edtech, investors say

It would be shortsighted to overlook edtech amid the present downturn, especially now that AI is disrupting nearly every...
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The two faces of AI

We all make mistakes. But sometimes we forget that technology does, too — especially when it comes to AI, which is still...
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Private equity could be the last resort for startups struggling to exit

Startups are in a difficult spot. But the good news is that some untraveled and overgrown exit paths have a chance of op...
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Consumer tech is bound for a comeback among unicorns, but maybe not just yet

Cowboy Ventures predicts that "given the hard shift to enterprise," we can "hope and expect more exciting consumer unico...
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Insurtech Getsafe acquires a student loan platform to meet its future clients upstream

This is Getsafe's second acquisition in a few months, after it nabbed the German portfolio of ailing French insurtech co...
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The mobile regulatory landscape is changing at an inconvenient time for Apple

With the tech world fighting to win the AI race while smartphone sales slow and regulations away at its legacy revenue s...
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Age tech at CES was much more than gadgets

CES was definitely worth watching closely, if only just for the rise of age tech. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...
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Nasdaq CEO’s comments about IPOs portend sunny skies ahead for the tech industry

More than 100 companies are getting ready to go public on Nasdaq after filing confidentially with the SEC, Barron's quot...
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Alaska Airlines Flight 1282: How could iPhones survive a 16,000-foot drop?

X user Seanathan Bates documented how he had found an iPhone on the side of the road that came from an Alaska Airlines p...
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Carta’s growth story is being overshadowed by its stock trading snafu

Is Carta a bad business without a secondary-market trading arm? Can it scale on its other revenue sources to the size it...
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What if the metaverse had legs?

I would be lying if I said that mixed reality and generative AI were two of my favorite things. And yet, a Christmas Day...
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With hopes for greener grass in Germany vanishing, consolidation is in the cards for cannabis companies

Not much happened when it comes to legal cannabis markets in 2023, which won't help cannabis startups that are already f...
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Once again, Etsy’s layoffs come as no surprise

More than quantitative, Etsy's challenge is qualitative. A viral tweet summed it up in one word: junkification. © 2023 T...
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Even without Adobe, things don’t look too bad for Figma

Now that Adobe is no longer part of the picture, how Figma sailed through this period of uncertainty suggests it will co...
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Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

Sometimes it's important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. And also that ...
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Do you believe in job after job?

People moving on to new jobs is not a bad thing — and not only when they have been laid off. That's why it's uplifting t...
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Travelsist hopes its air travel concierge will take off from Atlanta

Founded by a former flight attendant, Atlanta-based startup Travelsist and its Travelsistants provides assistance to tra...
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Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water

The trends that we can spy inside the data are an effective argument against the era in which startups were encouraged t...
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Shein a light

We won't be getting our hands on a Shein filing just yet, but we can’t wait to. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. ...
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8 authors and their 8 gift book picks for this holiday season

Book blurbs have become a central part of the publishing industry: Who better to endorse a book than other authors and t...
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Drug discovery startup Pepper Bio hopes to challenge Eroom’s law with new funding

The biotech startup's $6.5 million seed round is led by VC firm NFX but it is perhaps equally noteworthy to see that Mer...
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Non-unicorn insurtech Luko urgently needs a buyer, but will it be Allianz?

Luko's parent company, Demain ES, will be put for sale via a legal notice in the newspaper after Admiral abandoned ship....
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Time for moderation?

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen made it clear that while he was keen on buying Convoy because of the "incredible tech stack" ...
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Remote connects talent and employers with a new job board

Remote, the HR tech company that allows companies to hire, manage and pay remote workers, is launching a remote job mark...
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Will Airbnb’s co-founder build your next home?

Samara raised $41 million "to bring high quality ADUs to every backyard in California and beyond." ADUs refer to accesso...
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10 years on, Aileen Lee explains why focusing on unicorn valuations makes sense

From which metrics she thinks it's a good idea to focus on to her favorite memorabilia, the creator of the "unicorn" mon...
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The best jigsaw puzzles to gift in 2023

Today’s jigsaw puzzles don’t always look like yesteryears’, and that’s for the best: Not all of ...
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Will this former future unicorn be sold for parts?

While Luko could still sell itself, it seems less likely to receive a "very competitive offer." © 2023 TechCrunch. All r...
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Not many unicorns were spotted in the UK and France this year

Since France and the U.K. have both been vocal about their unicorn goals, it is these two countries we are looking at to...
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For VCs and founders, building in public is about filling the top of the funnel

Getting enough people to pay attention to you and to your thesis can help beyond raising money. © 2023 TechCrunch. All r...
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