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Another VC-backed fintech, Earnin, faces crackdown over allegedly ‘predatory’ loans

The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing instant payday loan fintech Earnin for “deceptively marketing...
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Ben Ling’s Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund

Bling Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has nabbed another $270 million for a new flag...
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ServiceTitan names LLMs from Microsoft, OpenAI as risk factors

With ServiceTitan's public IPO documents, we may be witnessing the birth of a new boilerplate warning: LLMs. © 2024 Tech...
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Gadget lover Marc Benioff says his favorite gadget these days is his cars and trucks

Marc Benioff famously got into tech as a child coder writing games. He’s always loved tech gadgets. During an episode of...
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a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong

Attempts to regulate AI to date have focused on some mythical future instead of understanding what new risks AI actually...
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Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B

What’s the secret to success? It isn’t any of the trends that so many founders in Silicon Valley subscribe to, a16z's Ma...
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How AI startup Conflixis is protecting hospitals from corrupt doctors 

After a career as a corruption investigator, Aaron Narva had an idea for a startup in the age of LLM AI: help hospitals...
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AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe

By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Curso...
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AI startups will need ‘quality of revenue’ to raise in 2025, seed VCs warn

To raise VC money next year, it won't just be about sales and growth, but about the "quality" of that growth, VCs say. ©...
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No, startups shouldn’t always take the highest valuation, seed VCs say

One of the lessons that the wild Silicon Valley venture funding environment of the past few years has clearly taught is ...
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Level Zero Health is working on a potentially life-changing device for hormone health

Level Zero Health’s co-founders Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia are swinging for the fences. They are attempting to in...
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VC megadeals are booming — and AI is surprisingly not the top category

Ask any VC if we’re still in a venture capital bear market and that investor will almost certainly tell you no, that fun...
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Wiz hopes to hit $1B in ARR in 2025 before an IPO, after turning down Google’s $23B

Wiz co-founder Roy Reznik said the company hit $500 million in annual recurring revenue this year, and still thought it ...
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Eric Schmidt’s SandboxAQ aims for $5B valuation for its AI/quantum Google moonshot

SandboxAQ began as Alphabet’s moonshot AI and quantum computing and now has an impressive roster of projects. © 2024 Tec...
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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it ha...
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How customer service AI startup Neuron7 convinced Keith Block to invest

Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million series B round led by Keith ...
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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup

A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate b...
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Series, a GenAI game development platform, has quietly raised $28M from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others

It’s been quite the year for game industry exec Pany Haritatos.  Last month, he quietly closed an oversubscribed $28 mil...
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Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs

Mortgage fintech Mesa has emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $9.2 million in seed capital and a novel idea for homeown...
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Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth

AI memory management startup Letta just emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed led by Felicis and a bunch of big-...
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Salesforce Ventures ups its AI fund to $1B, doubling it again

Salesforce Ventures just doubled its AI fund with another $500 million, and is helping San Francisco grow its attraction...
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Fintech Bolt is buying out the investor suing over Ryan Breslow’s $30M loan

Bolt says it has settled its long-standing lawsuit with its investor Activant Capital. One-click payments startup Bolt i...
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Bolt has quietly settled its lawsuit with Fanatics amid ongoing boardroom drama

Online sports apparel retailer Fanatics has agreed to settle and drop a lawsuit that it filed against troubled one-click...
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Why Y Combinator companies are flocking to banking and HR startup Every

Rajeev Behera’s new all-on-one HR startup, dubbed Every, is either brilliant or crazy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
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Announcing the final agenda for the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Get ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, our signature event for startups, happening at Moscone West in San Francisco from...
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‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic

As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI. © 2024 Te...
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Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirm...
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The SEC just made life a little easier for smaller VCs

The SEC has updated its limits to the amount of money a “qualified venture fund” can raise to $12 million from $10 milli...
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In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in San Francisco, according to data and founders who’ve relocated

San Francisco’s AI startup boom is so big, even international founders who don’t run AI startups are relocating there to...
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A16z offers social media tips after its founder’s ‘attack’ tweet goes viral

On Friday, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz tweeted out a link to its guide on how to “build your social media prese...
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