IT総合 Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund
Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and P...
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IT総合 IT総合 Falling into these 3 traps means you will never raise VC funding
Over the years, I’ve spoken with a quite a few startup founders. Many of them are smart, likable and have really g...
IT総合 We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on ...
IT総合 Here’s why it’s scary that investors believe they can monetize the climate crisis
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Netmaker’s $2.3M seed deck
In a world where people working from home still need access to networks and a ton of other use cases, Netmaker lets user...
IT総合 VCs joining the climate race should scare the daylights out of you
Venture capital, as an asset class, is an industry of short-term wins. Most funds have a 10-year cycle: two years of ini...
IT総合 EVs are going backwards
When you send a rocket into space, you run into a paradox: Around 90% of the weight of the rocket is the fuel that it ne...
IT総合 Secure your startup’s future by watching the big corporations
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Starting next week, it moves to...
IT総合 Sol Reader is a VR headset exclusively for reading books
We’ve been waxing lyrical (and critical) about Apple’s Vision Pro here at TechCrunch this week – but, ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: CulturePulse’s $1M seed deck
Sentiment analysis, which means generalizing a feeling expressed by people in, say, online reviews, has been around for ...
IT総合 Real estate is facing a climate crisis, but there might be a way through
We are heading toward climate disaster, and experts predict that by 2030, the effects will be irreversible. The built en...
IT総合 Apple’s AR headset is a game-changer for startups
TechCrunch tried out the Apple Vision Pro headset, concluding that it is very good — but perhaps also too good to be tru...
IT総合 Incube wants to bring ‘daylight’ to apartment buildings
For anyone designing an office space or learning environment, there’s lots of available research on the best types of li...
IT総合 Binder maker For Them is launching community for queer and trans folks
Meeting the needs, practical and emotional, of the queer, trans, and nonbinary community is both sensitive and pressing....
IT総合 To reduce motion sickness in VR, Apple developed new R1 chip
Apple today showed off its Vision Pro VR/AR headset. The device is powered by the company’s own M2 chip, but in or...
IT総合 Apple surprise-launches new Mac Pro with Apple Silicon
At WWDC 2023 today, Apple surprised fans with a brand new, Apple Silicon powered desktop and rack-mounted Mac Pro workst...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Oii.ai’s $1.9M Seed deck
The award for the best/worst startup name I’ve seen in a while goes to Oii.ai. This company’s name is weird ...
IT総合 Taking the pulse on the Northeast seed market with Techstars’ Kerty Levy
Techstars’ Kerty Levy knows a thing or two about where seed funding is, and where it might be going, in the Northe...
IT総合 AI scares the bejesus out of me
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IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck
A year ago, Mike Butcher reported that Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance, an...
IT総合 On the internet, nobody knows you’re a bot
Something really scary is happening on the internet. It’s a horror story unfolding in front of us, in three simple acts....
IT総合 How to write the perfect cold email to investors
Yes, warm intros are the best way to approach investors and should ideally be your Plan A. But what if you can’t g...
IT総合 Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts
If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history &#...
IT総合 Well that’s one way to hire a new CEO
Welcome to Startups Weekly, with your shiny, newly minted host, yours sincerely. If you’ve seen my name on TechCrunch, i...
IT総合 Nuwa Pen launches with misleading Kickstarter campaign
Back at CES in Las Vegas in January this year, I previewed the Nuwa Pen; a three-camera-containing ballpoint pen that pr...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Ageras’ $36M Private Equity deck
Most of the pitch decks we cover in the Pitch Deck Teardown series are for relatively young companies, but to celebrate ...
IT総合 Tangible wants to scale up construction decarbonization
The real estate industry is a bit of a greenhouse gas powerhouse, responsible for 40% of all global emissions. A quarter...
IT総合 How to get warm introductions to investors
Okay, so you’ve created a comprehensive list of investors you want to talk to. Now how the hell do you meet them?
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IT総合 Pale Blue Dot continues investing in its climate vision, with a second, $100M fund
Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startu...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Fibery’s $5.2M Series A deck
Fibery is a really interesting startup that’s aiming to be the single source of truth and work for product compani...