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Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins

As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that...
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New York powerhouse VC Insight Partners nabs another $12.5B after $8B in exits

Insight Partners closed another giant flagship fund after big returns in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
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Reusable rocket startup Stoke raised another massive round: $260M

Y Combinator alum Stoke has an ambitious goal to build the first fully reusable rocket and VCs have opened their wallets...
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Elon Musk tweets so much, people bet over $1M weekly to guess how many posts

Will Elon Musk post more than 400 tweets this week? With Polymarket, this to be one of the silliest ways people spend th...
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How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers' entire site which hosts hund...
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Y Combinator scored a surprise win when Larry Page came to speak

Y Combinator is maybe only two-degrees of separation from anyone in tech. Even Larry Page. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
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Gamers can’t fathom how 6x CEO Elon Musk found time to best Diablo IV

On October 16 and November 20, Elon Musk tweeted videos of himself clearing the highest level of the Diablo IV video gam...
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Silicon Valley is so dominant again, its startups devoured over half of all global VC funding in 2024

For all the chatter about the decline of San Francisco, the data repeatedly shows that the area is still the best place ...
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Consumer tech spending will break records in 2025 if Trump’s tariffs don’t squash it, CTA predicts

AI is leading US consumers towards a tech spending bonanza this year if tariffs don't materialize, new research from the...
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$132K – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and...
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Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually pe...
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Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually pe...
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After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed

On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, rai...
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$25 billion valuation Chime takes another step towards an IPO

Digital bank Chime has reportedly filed its confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, with an eye toward a 2025 debut. © ...
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Menlo Ventures and Anthropic have picked the first 18 startups for their $100M fund

Just five months after launching a $100 million fund, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic have backed their first 18 startups. ...
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With 25M users, Bluesky gets a $1M fund to take on social media and AI

The fund will offer grants to those building on BlueSky’s open source AT Protocol. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...
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Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks' record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of ...
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Databricks is on track to raise a record $9.5+ billion round at $60B valuation

Databricks is close to finalizing a $9.5 billion round at a $60 billion valuation, including a secondary sale for employ...
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The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024

These startups have fascinating new technologies, business models, founder stories or are pushing an industry forward in...
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ServiceTitan’s IPO is a big winner that could inspire fintechs

ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursd...
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Flare raises $30M to thwart info-stealers like those used on Snowflake customers

Threat exposure management startup Flare thinks it has an answer to info-stealers with a service that watches the dark w...
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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucke...
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Y Combinator alum Nowadays, founded by sisters, raises $2M to automate event planning

Nowadays is a seed-stage company doing something really useful with AI. It automates large event planning from emails to...
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LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce AgentForce is any indicator

Marc Benioff says that Salesforce has become the "largest supplier of digital labor, and this is just the beginning.” © ...
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$132 – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and...
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ServiceTitan’s IPO keeps getting weirder

ServiceTitan made a few interesting disclosures about what it will do with the money from its IPO and who it will sell t...
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An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices

An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices ...
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Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees

With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon ...
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ServiceTitan could be the first of many ‘dirty’ term-sheet IPOs, VCs believe

Rather than opening an IPO window, ServiceTitan's IPO could be the first of something else entirely, VCs warn. © 2024 Te...
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Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC

While most seed investors believe founders should spend their raised cash however they want to, those VCs will still be ...
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