Blume Ventures closes its 4th fund at over $250 million

2 years ago

Homegrown venture fund Blume Ventures, which focuses on early-stage technology-led startups announced it has closed its Fund IV at over…

Pinterest reaches deal with activist Elliott; Steinberg to join board

2 years ago

Pinterest said it reached a deal with Elliott Management, the activist investment firm that has offered up ideas on how…

Daily Crunch: Lensa AI can transform Photoshopped fakes into nonconsensual pornography

2 years ago

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American Battery Factory’s first ‘gigafactory’ inches toward reality

2 years ago

American Battery Factory’s big plan to build a bunch of, erm, American battery factories got a jolt Tuesday when Tucson,…

A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics

2 years ago

Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not…

Bosch shuts down its app store for AI-powered, internet-connected cameras

2 years ago

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was…

Fintech unicorn valuations have fallen hard in 2022

2 years ago

Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? The sector exploded last year, seeing…

Meta won’t let staff discuss topics like abortion, gun control and vaccines at work

2 years ago

Meta employees were told that they should not discuss sensitive issues like abortion, gun control, pending legislation and vaccine efficacy…

Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes

2 years ago

We recently uncovered that Lensa AI can be tricked into creating NSFW images. When TechCrunch made the Prisma team aware…

Vietnamese luxury EV-maker VinFast files to go public on Nasdaq

2 years ago

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, the company said Tuesday.…