IT総合 Black LPs fuel a16z’s third Cultural Leadership Fund
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced last week that it closed its third Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF), an...
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IT総合 IT総合 Fintech’s fever can’t make up its mind
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 I’m not too worried about recommending another (few) tech podcasts
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, ...
IT総合 We’re entering an era of, um, creative accounting in startups
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 As startup layoffs continue, some perspective
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, ...
IT総合 The early signs of startup layoffs to come
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 With millions in backing, SecureSave is Suze Orman’s not-so-surprising debut into startups
For those who know financial planner Suze Orman’s work, it’s no surprise that her debut into startup life begins with th...
IT総合 Ivella is the latest fintech focused on couples banking, with a twist
Money can make people moody. There are layers of privilege, or lack thereof, that can make even the simplest conversatio...
IT総合 Nuance? In this startup market?
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, ...
IT総合 A downturn is nothing new for diverse founders
From black swan memos and heart-to-hearts to not-so-subtle emails asking for on-the-record confirmations that your start...
IT総合 Sheryl Sandberg, Substack and the art of still raising money for groceries
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Social app IRL lays off 25% of team, says it has enough cash to last well into 2024
“We have all seen the state of the market,” IRL CEO and co-founder Abraham Shafi wrote in a company-wide memo where the ...
IT総合 Gemini lays off 10% of workforce as the ‘crypto revolution’ enters its ‘contraction phase’
Crypto platform Gemini has cut approximately 10% of its workforce, per co-founders and twin brothers Cameron and Tyler W...
IT総合 a16z-backed Loom lays off 14% of staff, one year after becoming a unicorn
Loom, an enterprise collaboration video messaging service, has laid off 34 employees, or 14% of its total staff, source...
IT総合 How investors are playing offense right now (their words, our two cents)
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Felt’s $15 million chance to prove that maps are the next big medium
Despite economic turmoil in the tech world, an Oakland-based startup shows that moonshots are still getting funded. Felt...
IT総合 Footnotes on Sequoia’s startup memo
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox...
IT総合 Sequoia is the latest VC firm telling you to take the downturn seriously
Sequoia takes things seriously. The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aime...
IT総合 Tech layoffs top 15K in a brutal May
It’s been a rough month in the tech sector. We’ve rounded up week after week of layoffs, and according to aggregator la...
IT総合 A ping-pong match between bulls and bears
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Announcing the TechCrunch+ Stage Agenda at Disrupt 2022
2022 is the year that we are returning to in-person events here at TechCrunch, which means that after a few years runnin...
IT総合 Fintech Bolt just laid off over 100 employees across engineering, sales, and marketing
One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees, and counting, across go-to-market, sales and recrui...
IT総合 We think founders need a quick Heart to Heart about the market
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 PayPal laid off 83 employees as it reduces Bay Area presence
PayPal laid off dozens of employees from its San Jose headquarters, filings show. As first reported by The Information, ...
IT総合 Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox,...
IT総合 It’s not business as usual (and investors are admitting it)
“You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerato...
IT総合 A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books
You thought the market was bad for venture capitalists, but what about the actual workers behind the tech companies they...
IT総合 A Twitter Bot Wrote This
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 A round, acquisition and revenue later, Bravado’s sales network wants you to know it’s #growing
Sahil Mansuri, a sales guy, doesn’t want his industry to be defined by sales guys. The founder began Bravado in 2017 to ...
IT総合 Class buys tech from its own founder’s first edtech company for $210 million
Before starting Class, a Zoom-friendly virtual instruction tool, Michael Chasen was the founder of Blackboard, one of th...