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The 22-year-old building Roblox developer tools to make gaming more efficient

Gamebeast is a live operations tooling platform that lets developers modify games without needing to release a new versi...
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11xAI raises $24M led by Benchmark to build AI digital employees

The Series A comes about a year after 11xAI raised a $2 million seed round led by Project A Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch....
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Why ORNG’s founder pivoted from college food ordering to real-time money transfer

Alex Parmley has been thinking about building his latest company, ORNG, since he was working on his last company, Phood....
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Fearless Fund is shutting down its contested Strivers Grant program

Fearless Fund has settled its case with the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), agreeing to shut down its Striver...
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How a cold email to a VC helped salon software startup Mangomint raise $35M

Mangomint seeks to make it easier for spa and salon owners to run their businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reser...
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Portex founder Brittany Ennix learned the importance of supply chains from Uber and Flexport

Brittany Ennix launched Portex, a company that allows SMBs to connect with freight partners and manage shipments and ope...
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Slauson & Co. raises $100M Fund II proving appetite for inclusion persists

Fast-forward to today, Slauson & Co. remains even more committed to the mission of inclusivity in its funding, and ...
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From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companies

Palm launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
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Grammy CEO says music industry also has AI concerns

The rise of AI has consumed the arts, just as it has Silicon Valley. Everyone is pondering: Will AI replace me? © 2024 T...
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Airbnb and fashion app By Rotation partner for free destination wedding outfits

By Rotation has a partnership with Airbnb to let those who’ve booked an Airbnb receive a complimentary outfit rental. © ...
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OpenAI’s Converge 2 program has been shrouded in mystery

For months, a tech forum ran wild asking if the Converge 2 accelerator program actually happened. We finally found out. ...
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The biggest trends young NYC investors are bullish on — and why

As twenty-something-year-old investors enter the venture landscape, they spot new trends that could become the next mult...
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The founder building a wealth-management product her grandmother would have loved

Mical Jeanlys-White built WealthMore out of frustration.  She spent years on Wall Street, building products at Amer...
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Colorful Capital will stop trying to raise for a fund

Colorful Capital, which launched in 2022 to focus on investing in LGBTQIA+-identifying founders, will end its attempts a...
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Is your company AI-washing? Rippling founder Parker Conrad thinks it might be.

Right now, there’s a mad scramble to capitalize on AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. S...
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How VC Pippa Lamb ended up on ‘Industry’ — one of the hottest shows on TV

Season 3 of "Industry" focuses on the fictional bank Pierpoint blends the worlds — and drama — of tech, media, governmen...
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Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, quietly shuts down

It racked up around 18,000 users, made 8,000 matches, and gathered a lot of insights on the current dating scene. © 202...
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Techstars is laying off 17%, ending its J.P. Morgan-backed programs

Techstars is cutting 17% of its staff and will end its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed AdvancingCities program once the f...
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Ex-Clubhouse employees take another swing at a social networking startup

The ex-Clubhouse, Netflix employees raised $1.65M for an app that combines social media, networking, and dating. © 2024 ...
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38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list

The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of othe...
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Open-source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5 million developers

Open-source compliance and security platform FOSSA has acquired developer community platform StackShare, the company con...
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Digital marketing startup Plaiced has acquired Precursor Ventures-backed Clutch

Madison Long and Simone May founded Clutch in 2020 to help connect people to businesses looking for marketing and conten...
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CityRock launches second fund to back founders from diverse backgrounds

The firm has numerous legs to it, ranging from a venture studio to standard funds, where it does everything from co-foun...
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After a 30-year career in IT, Protexxa founder raises $7.2M for cybersecurity employee hygiene

McGowan said she founded the company due to the rapid rise in cyber attacks these past years the increased fears people ...
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Some Black startup founders feel betrayed by Ben Horowitz’s support for Trump

Trump is an advocate for a number of policies that could be harmful to people of color. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights r...
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Female-founded startups have raised $15.5 billion so far this year but that’s not really good news

The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital fu...
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A VC told Keely Cat-Wells to get a male, able-bodied co-founder. She balked, nabbed a $2M seed round.

Cat-Wells said she started this platform because traditional hiring processes are exclusionary and often overlook skille...
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Shark Tank-backed Kudos raises another $3M for healthier, cotton-based disposable diapers

Kudos founder says her company makes a disposable diaper lined with 100% cotton, unlike the major competitors. © 2024 T...
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Women in AI: Sarah Bitamazire helps companies implement responsible AI

Sarah Bitamazire is the chief policy officer at the boutique advisory firm Lumiera. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...
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Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance

Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within t...
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