IT総合 Glowforge launches the Aura, a more accessible laser cutter
Laser cutters are nothing new, but Glowforge has a long history of adding something that the category has sorely been la...
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IT総合 What to do about your traction slide when you don’t have revenue yet
When I work with early-stage startups on how they can tell their story, the traction slide is often a sticking point. Ho...
IT総合 Gear Patrol’s acquisition of DPReview shows that it can pay to be boring
In March, DPReview announced that parent company Amazon was shutting it down, and the photography world entered a dual s...
IT総合 Goodbye VR, hello AR, and can AI be more human, plz?
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: CleanHub’s $7M seed deck
Plastic in ocean bad. Plastic not in ocean good. That’s, in a nutshell, the pitch for CleanHub. The company has de...
IT総合 VR is dead
It’s hard to believe that it was only 11 years ago that VR captured the zeitgeist. In April 2012, Oculus hit Kickstarter...
IT総合 I tried to buy a post on TechCrunch.com
A few times per day, I get a message that asks something along the lines of: “How much do you charge for a guest a...
IT総合 Why this founder decided to replace himself as CEO
Founding a company is a big deal, and taking on the CEO role to drive that company forward is an important choice. Some ...
IT総合 Startups, be careful who you sell to
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: GoodBuy Gear’s $5M Series A extension deck
They grow up so fast. Babies, toddlers and kids will grow out of literally everything you get for them, probably well be...
IT総合 Can Amazon please show mercy to the brands and products we love?
Digital Photography Review (best known as DPReview) was regarded as one of the best review and news sites, bolstered by ...
IT総合 Topanga banishes single-use plastics from your Grubhub order
As a person who cares about the environment, a steel vacuum mug for coffee and matching water bottle are companions that...
IT総合 The quest for solid-state EV batteries
As we shift away from gas- and diesel-powered engines and toward electrification, a recurring problem comes up: Batterie...
IT総合 Proclaim raises $15M so you can pressure-wash your mouth
We all know the importance of good oral hygiene (you do brush twice a day, don’t you?), but despite its obvious impact o...
IT総合 This VC firm uses personality tests and AI to find its next investments
Investors are throwing money at AI startups (perhaps not as much as you might think), so it’s no wonder that we...
IT総合 Sourcetable raises $3M, claiming the future of spreadsheets is spreadsheets
Spreadsheets. They’re probably not what you’d call the most exciting piece of software going; it seems like a third of a...
IT総合 IP for startups: It starts with strategy
Intellectual property can be a powerful weapon in your startup’s arsenal. It can protect you from competitors using your...
IT総合 Wildfire detection startup Pano extends its $20M series A with another $17M
Not all use cases for AI make sense, but Pano AI makes a life-saving contribution in the “yes” column. Just ...
IT総合 So, how are Europe’s startups doing?
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Nokod Security’s $8M seed deck
Gone are the days when you needed a developer to build an app for a relatively easy task. No-code and low-code developme...
IT総合 Europe is more of a fuzzy tech cloud than a functioning ecosystem
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IT総合 This sex toy company uses ChatGPT to whisper sweet, customizable fantasies at you
It was only a question of time, I suppose, before someone made a generative AI that can whisper sweet, sweet obscenities...
IT総合 Yes, investors will sign an NDA, but only in this specific circumstance
If you’ve tried to get an investor to sign a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) before you pitch them, you’ll often be waved ...
IT総合 Are corporations too influential?
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Super.com’s $60M Series C deck
It’s rare to find a pitch deck that forces me to dig deep to unearth something to criticize. The last time was wit...
IT総合 When companies have more influence than countries
Apple recently hit a market cap of $3 trillion only two years after it crossed the $2 trillion mark. Before that, it had...
IT総合 The quest for better AI recommendation engines
Switch on your streaming service of choice or open up the website for your preferred department store and a recommendati...
IT総合 Russian hacking device on track to make $80 million worth of sales
You may have stumbled across the Flipper Zero hacking device that’s been doing the rounds. The Russia-based compan...
IT総合 When AI bots pose as humans
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IT総合 Reddit vs Redditors and other TC news
This week on the TechCrunch Podcast, I’m stepping in for the podcast’s usual host Darrell, and taking a clos...