IT総合 ‘There’s too much opportunity’ in Cerebral Valley
Evan Buhler moved to San Francisco’s Hayes Valley three months ago to build an AI company that would combine the buzzy t...
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IT総合 Always be prompting
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host ...
IT総合 Stability AI CEO has the ambition to IPO in next few years
Emad Mostaque, the CEO and founder of open source platform Stability AI, hinted at plans to go public in the next few ye...
IT総合 Burn, community, burn
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Hampton is tech’s new membership community for chief executive officers
Sam Parr, founder of HubSpot-acquired newsletter and media brand The Hustle, doesn’t watch “Succession” beca...
IT総合 Startup founders are trying to automate the worst part of the job: fundraising
With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. Toward t...
IT総合 The tide has shifted for solo GPs
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IT総合 Are solo GPs screwed?
Entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal raised a $70 million venture fund last year, called Vibe Capital, from over 200 investors. But...
IT総合 Not-so-fake dry powder, AI and the future of DAOs
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Duolingo is working on a music app
Duolingo, a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned.
The Pi...
IT総合 Let’s talk about succession plans
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IT総合 Banking isn’t the only ‘single point of failure’ entrepreneurs should be rethinking
Silicon Valley Bank is a good reminder that startups, often entrenched in the world of risk and scrappiness, sometimes f...
IT総合 Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6 billion, conducts layoffs
Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 billion, has cut 15% of staff, or 42 people – it...
IT総合 ‘BRB, storing my money in gold’: Founders scramble to figure out which banks are safe
Founders are still shaking off the dust a week after Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Rumors are swirling about who might...
IT総合 Klaviyo conducts company-wide layoffs
Klaviyo, an e-commerce marketing automation platform, has laid off 140 of its staff across all teams, including engineer...
IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank’s new CEO urges customers to bring deposits back
SVB’s new CEO Tim Mayopoulos has had a lot to say in the 24 hours since he joined the bank on Monday. In a private...
IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank’s new CEO sends letter to clients: ‘We are conducting business as usual’
Silicon Valley Bank’s clients received a surprising email in their inboxes late Monday evening from the bank’s new CEO T...
IT総合 Y Combinator cuts nearly 20% of staff, scales back growth stage investments
Y Combinator will be writing less checks toward late-stage companies, a scale back that also cost 17 team members –...
IT総合 The one where Alex and Natasha catch the Equity audience up on SVB
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 First Republic Bank shares plunge, prompting trading halt as startups process SVB crash
Shares of First Republic Bank fell sharply in early trading this morning, which caused trades of the company to be pause...
IT総合 Silicon Valley’s surreal weekend
As Silicon Valley Bank collapsed before our eyes on Thursday, a founder told me that the world felt like it did when COV...
IT総合 Deel makes over $120M of its own cash available to support customers affected by SVB crisis
Global payroll provider Deel plans to provide $120 million of its own cash off its balance sheet to support startups’ pa...
IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank’s depositors will be fully protected, according to the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve issued a joint pair of statements on Sunday with one clear message: Silicon Valley Bank’s depo...
IT総合 Sam Altman, Vinod Khosla say they’ll personally loan cash to startups in the wake of SVB collapse
Two of tech’s biggest entrepreneurs, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, are offeri...
IT総合 Y Combinator calls on Congress to act on SVB collapse
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Garry Tan is less than three months into his new job as the CEO of Y Combinat...
IT総合 Brex CEO is trying to raise over $1 billion in a weekend for SVB-related bridge loans
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras is currently working to raise over a billion dollars in a weekend to help fund an emergency b...
IT総合 Regulators are requesting SVB employees to stay on for the next 45 days
Founders and venture capitalists aren’t the only ones experiencing volatility right now: Silicon Valley Bank emplo...
IT総合 OK, what is going on with SVB?
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IT総合 How founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse
Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Sel...