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Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others so far in 2024

We’ve poked through the many product announcements made by the biggest tech companies and product trade shows of the yea...
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Former Citi, Battery VC has new $378M fund that helps startups land Prudential, Mutual of Omaha, others as investors and customers

This second fund is significant because Gupta expanded it beyond a corporate fund with one main LP – Prudential Financia...
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Who cut the plant-based cheese? Plonts did with microbes, and it’s stinky

Plonts’ cheese is made from soybeans, one of the most efficient ways to grow protein. Soybeans themselves are not very f...
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Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues

Any goal that puts cultivated meat in big box grocery stores or on fast food menus in the 2020s is “unrealistic,” accord...
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Siddhi Capital grabs $135M for Fund II to invest in consumer packaged goods startups

Siddhi Capital's second fund of $135 million is double the size of the venture capital firm's first fund and will go int...
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Zoe, a microbiome-focused nutrition company, raises $15 million to expand in the U.S.

Zoe sends customers at-home testing materials to collect blood or feces to test blood fat, blood sugar, and gut microbio...
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Fintech Fragment eases bank account reconciliation, nabs $9M from Stripe, Jack Altmam, others

Fragment's digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up. © 2024 T...
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How a B2B payments startup won Max, Jack and Sam Altman, JP Morgan as investors

Slope's founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure....
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Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing

Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to ...
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Alma co-founder had such a bad immigration experience she founded a legal AI startup to fix it

Alma aims to simplify the visa process for technologists, founders and researchers by providing personal legal advisors....
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Marc Andreessen, Sequoia again back Kearny Jackson, this time in $65M Fund III

After securing $14 million for its second fund in 2023, early-stage VC firm Kearny Jackson is back with a third fund. © ...
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From Facebook to the face of crypto: Inside Anthony Pompliano’s wild career

He’s known by a single-syllable name: Pomp. But his story is of an unconventional rise to success that almost ended two ...
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Seed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms

Three companies with new funds deploy capital to support seed and Series A VCs looking to exercise their pro rata rights...
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Deep tech VC Sidney Scott explains why he’s closing his firm as this area booms

With increasing competition for what is, essentially, still a small number of hard tech and deep tech deals, Sidney Scot...
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Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others so far in 2024

We’ve poked through the many product announcements made by the biggest tech companies and product trade shows of the yea...
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Zal Bilimoria just raised a $50M fourth Refactor Capital fund, and still relishes his solo GP status

Being a solo GP hasn’t slowed Bilimoria a bit. He went on to raise three additional funds and has now closed a new fund ...
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Plant-based ‘meat’ startup Tender has already nabbed a fast-food chain contract, and another $11M

Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, ...
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The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M

Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over ...
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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover

The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024...
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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, so far

The TechCrunch the team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © ...
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Prolific Machines, with a $55M Series B, shines ‘light’ on a better way to grow lab proteins for food and medicine

Prolific Machines believes it has a way of transitioning away from molecules to something better: light. © 2024 TechCrun...
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Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A

After growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energ...
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How a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention

Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they beg...
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WndrCo officially gets into venture capital with fresh $450M across two funds

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, along with three general partners, manage $1.5 billion in assets today through their...
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Unicorn-rich VC Wesley Chan owes his success to a Craigslist job washing lab beakers

While all of Wesley Chan's success has been well-documented over the years, his personal journey…not so much. Chan spoke...
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Fintech startup Forward grabs $16M to take on Stripe, lead future of integrated payments

It’s a lofty goal to take on legacy payments infrastructure, however, Forward’s model has an advantage by shifting the e...
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Tech startup Odyssey goes on journey to help states implement school choice programs

The company's public fund disbursement and e-commerce platform makes accepting school tuition and enabling educational e...
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan supports some AI regulation but warns against AI monopolies

Like most Silicon Valley VCs, what Garry Tan sees is opportunities for new, huge, lucrative businesses. © 2024 TechCrunc...
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Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form

Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of the...
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Garry Tan has revealed his ‘secret sauce’ for getting into Y Combinator

If you’ve ever wanted to apply to Y Combinator, here’s some inside scoop on how the iconic accelerator goes about choosi...
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