IT総合 Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state o...
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IT総合 IT総合 Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
Charlette N'Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology a...
IT総合 After 20 months of trying to raise funds, insurance startup Loop cuts staff
Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company st...
IT総合 Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience
ChatGPT, one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence tools, struggles with cultural nuance.
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IT総合 Crunchbase expands its diversity tracking feature to Europe
Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves.
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IT総合 An appeals court rules that VC Fearless Fund cannot issue grants to Black women, but the fight continues
The court ruling said that Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant likely violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bans the u...
IT総合 After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted
The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo.
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IT総合 Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing...
IT総合 Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund to now be called the Pinterest Inclusion Fund. ...
IT総合 Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South
Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI policy and governance in the Global South.
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IT総合 Harlem Capital is raising a $150 million fund
If raised, this new fund, the firm’s third, would be its largest to date.
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IT総合 App developer Crowdaa raises €1.2 million and plans a U.S. expansion
Crowdaa is an app that allows non-developers to easily create and release apps on the mobile store.
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IT総合 Meta’s new AI council is comprised entirely of white men
Meanwhile, women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by irresponsible AI.
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IT総合 Techstars CEO Mäelle Gavet is out
Gavet has had a rocky tenure at Techstars and her leadership was the subject of much controversy.
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IT総合 Venture firms form alliance to standardize data collection
Seven firms so far have signed on to standardize the way data is collected and shared.
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IT総合 GV’s youngest partner has launched her own firm
Terri Burns, a former partner at GV, is venturing into a new chapter of her career by launching her own venture firm cal...
IT総合 Women in AI: Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has ...
IT総合 Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society
Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society.
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IT総合 Kevin Eisenfrats is developing the ‘male IUD’
Einsfrats sat down with Found to discuss building this company and medical testing for it.
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IT総合 The Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles
It’s the most chronically online rap battle the world has ever seen.
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IT総合 The Net Gala hosts its first event for the stylish and chronically online
Days before the Met Gala, New York’s young and techish partied at The Net Gala.
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IT総合 Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategies
Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.
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IT総合 Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators
Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and ent...
IT総合 Inside the ‘cold war’ at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force change
Financial losses, founder revolts, public firings and overflowing office sewage mark the storied institution’s annus hor...
IT総合 Bringing down sky scrapers’ sky-high carbon footprint with Joselyn Lai from Bedrock
Jocelyn Lai appeared on TechCrunch’s Found to discuss her company and its hopes of driving down the cost of a proven tec...
IT総合 Bump raises $3 million seed to help creators manage finances
Bump allows creators to track income and market value, which can help them negotiate better deals and see how much money...
IT総合 Screen Skinz raises $1.5 million seed to create custom screen protectors
There has been much evolution in the personalized phone protector market, but nothing has truly captured screens yet.
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IT総合 Don’t blame MKBHD for the fate of Humane AI and Fisker
Humane AI raised more than $230 million before it even shipped a product. And when it finally released its Ai Pin – whic...
IT総合 Megan Thee Stallion’s favorite app is Pinterest, obviously
It actually makes sense that in an era of oversaturation, people would escape to a more quiet and rather peaceful corner...
IT総合 YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more
As we did on Wednesday, a number of the TechCrunch crew watched the entire run of presentations, picking out a handful o...