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Icoma shows off a suitcase-size electric Transformer-style motorbike

Icoma‘s Tatamal bike goes from a suitcase-sized square to a tiny electric motorcycle in a few seconds. Charge it f...
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$60K personal water toy lands $1M worth of preorders

It takes a special kind of boldness to raise a wad of cash, claim to have $90 million worth of preorders, then pivot awa...
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Don’t stop writing, or your words will vanish off the page

The year is coming to an end, and with it, I continue an annual tradition of writing a x words about x piece. This year,...
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Backed by Electrolux, Mila raises at a $52M valuation to add smarts to fresh air

Three years ago, Mila showed up on Kickstarter with its smart air purifier. The company created an air cleaner with a ch...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Card Blanch’s $460K deck for its angel round

We’ve seen attempts at gathering all cards (credit, debit, loyalty, etc.) in one before, but Card Blanch claims to...
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Healthcare data is a mess and Metriport is here with a broom

You’d have thought that the quantified self movement was stalling out, but Metriport would like to tell you otherw...
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Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck

Oh man, you got 300 email sign-ups, awesome! Goodness, your web traffic spiked by 200%! Yesssss! Holy god, you got a fea...
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Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world

Hot on the heels of Ledger announcing it’s working with iPod creator Tony Fadell to create its newest hardware wal...
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The fundraising stages are not about dollar values — they’re about risk

You’ve likely heard of pre-seed, seed, Series A, Series B and so on and so forth. These labels often aren’t ...
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Startup founders, this is how you get your first investor meeting

If you’ve read anything about pitching your company, you’ve probably come across advice that says that you n...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck

In September, the FBI warned that more than half of connected medical devices in hospitals had known critical security v...
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How SmartHelio aims to fix solar panels before they break

It’s commonly held that solar panels need as much sun as they can get. That’s true, but only up to a point, ...
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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of

The U.S. Midwest generates a lot of wealth and is home to myriad huge corporations. With corporations come pension funds...
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How much money should you raise for your startup?

The correct amount of money to raise for your startup is “as much as you need to hit the milestones to raise your ...
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The one slide 99% of founders get wrong when fundraising

There’s one slide that almost every founder gets wrong when they are putting together a pitch deck to raise money ...
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Hook your investors with the perfect summary slide

The team at DocSend discovered that more and more successful slide decks have something in common: a very good summary s...
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6 gifts for coffee lovers looking to up their game

You know what I miss about working in an office? Literally nothing, apart from having access to a fancy coffee machine. ...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Rootine’s $10M Series A deck

If you told me that a company that’s charging $70 per month for multivitamins would be able to raise a $10 million...
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Smartynames uses AI to find you the perfect domain name

There’s a lot of weird and wonderful uses for AI applications. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen AI powering...
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Skydio takes flight with new drone docking stations for easy remote deployment

Autonomous drones have a tremendous amount of potentially valuable use cases, but even if the drones have the smarts to ...
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Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes

We recently uncovered that Lensa AI can be tricked into creating NSFW images. When TechCrunch made the Prisma team aware...
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It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images

Lensa has been climbing the app store hit lists with its avatar-generating AI that is making artists wave the red flag. ...
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If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software

Low and no-code application building continues apace. Gently hum “Rowy rowy rowy your software, gently down the st...
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Boundary Layer pivots from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft

Boundary Layer, which was gunning for local air freight, and announced a slew of launch partners earlier this year, toda...
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To da moon: Emm aims to innovate on the menstrual cup

Menstrual cups (sometimes known as “moon cups”) have been around since the 1930s, and it’s been a bloo...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One’s $20M Series A deck

Over the years, Mike Butcher has covered Hour One a number of times here on TechCrunch. The company is using AI to creat...
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StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reporte...
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We review Abby, a sleek one-plant weed farm for your apartment

Abby started its journey selling 120 or so of its “All-In-One Smart Hydroponic Grow Box” on Kickstarter, wit...
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Nufa lets you live up to unrealistic beauty standards at the tap of an app

It isn’t like Instagram is a beacon of truth as it is, but things are about to get a lot worse, as Nufa takes any ...
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Logistics and procurement on autopilot is the future Cofactr wants to live in

Cofactr is a logistics and supply chain tech company that provides scalable warehousing and procurement for electronics ...
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