IT総合 Time for tech’s report card
A lot of the world is busy digesting Twitter being rebranded to “X,” but more serious things are happening i...
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IT総合 IT総合 Tech-ish companies’ killer IPOs are making startups look silly as hell
The inability or unwillingness of many venture-backed startups to go public is starting to sting.
Backers of venture fun...
IT総合 Are software companies good businesses?
We’re back to talking about profitability.
A technology-finance podcast recently talked about software company val...
IT総合 Intel backs robotics startup, Twitter loses money, and fintech shows signs of life
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance b...
IT総合 8 reasons why the venture capital market isn’t as miserable as you think
Did the global venture capital market bottom out in the first quarter of this year? The second?
There’s good reaso...
IT総合 Welcome to the new venture normal
The U.S. venture capital market has seemingly found a new normal: Trends around the number of deals and amount of dollar...
IT総合 Cooling inflation in the US brings slight relief to tech valuations
New U.S. inflation data is augmenting tech stocks listed on American exchanges, helping shares of cloud companies reach ...
IT総合 Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM’s?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 The era of tech layoffs is evolving in an interesting way
The era of tech layoffs is not yet past, but it is losing some of its intensity and changing into a unique trend.
The E...
IT総合 Prompt engineering startup Vellum.ai raises $5M as demand for generative AI services scales
This morning, Vellum.ai said it had closed a $5 million seed round. The company declined to share who its lead investor ...
IT総合 As the value of startup exits craters, poor liquidity may be harming VCs’ ability to raise capital
Is the liquidity crunch caused by the slow pace of startup exits hurting fundraising for venture capitalists?
Recent dat...
IT総合 People like Threads
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 As Apple reaches $3T, it’s time to shake up the Big Tech club
Today, Apple saw its market cap pass the $3 trillion threshold. The iPhone maker has reached that landmark before but ha...
IT総合 11 VCs reveal how hard it was for their startups to fundraise in H1 2023
Everyone knows that raising venture capital has been harder for startups lately — unless you are building an AI startup,...
IT総合 As $100M+ venture rounds evaporate, IPOs might have to carry the weight
Earlier this year we wrote that the “the $100 million venture round is going extinct.” Often our predictions...
IT総合 Q2 failed to bring a funding reprieve for web3 startups and unicorns
Lo and behold, we’re already halfway into 2023, which means we’re only a couple weeks away from brand new, s...
IT総合 Crypto ticks higher, fintech gets interesting again, and fraud is still bad
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 What happens if regulators nix the $20B Adobe-Figma deal?
When Adobe announced it was putting up $20 billion to buy Figma in September 2022, it didn’t take long before people beg...
IT総合 Warming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares
The late-stage startup market is sorting out how to value startups that had raised capital during the previous venture b...
IT総合 Databricks is proof that strong unicorns can grow their way out of a market correction
Databricks recently revealed that it recorded revenue of more than $1 billion in the financial year ended January 31. Th...
IT総合 The startup boom failed to build a creator utopia
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Tiger Global’s search for liquidity illustrates how busted the late-stage market is
The late-stage market is whacked. You only need to look at how Tiger Global Management, previously one of the most activ...
IT総合 Alibaba shakes up its leadership, OpenAI lobbies EU regulators, and the late-stage market is a mess
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 Cava’s explosive IPO hints that public markets are more ready for growth-stories than founders thought
It’s been so long since TechCrunch+ has had the pleasure of covering an IPO from S-1 to first-day trading that we&...
IT総合 Rejoice, for startup valuations are slowly recovering
We have good news for tech companies big and small this fine Wednesday morning: valuations are heading higher, though at...
IT総合 Turo’s Q1 2023 results indicate it may be a while until we see its IPO
Late last week, car rental marketplace Turo dropped an updated S-1 filing featuring its first-quarter results. TechCrunc...
IT総合 Cava boosts its IPO price range, highlighting appetite for growth stories
How about we kick off the week with some good news?
This morning, American fast-casual restaurant chain Cava raised its ...
IT総合 Here are the most richly valued startup types in today’s early-stage venture market
If you want to score the largest possible early-stage valuation, what should your startup focus on? New data makes it cl...
IT総合 Robinhood’s decision to limit crypto trading makes good sense
Consumer trading and investment app Robinhood is moving to restrict the holding and trading of certain major cryptocurre...
IT総合 What’s being built in generative AI today?
If you look past the financial headlines, what are today’s AI startups building?
News coverage of the AI boom has ...