PropTech firm Aurum is acquiring NestAway, a once high-flying Indian startup operating in the same space, for up to $10.9 million, in a deal that marks a near complete erosion in value for the startup...
When it comes time to fret about minerals critical to the energy transition, lithium, cobalt, and nickel may get all the attention, but another metal is keeping plenty of analysts up at night.Though t...
Crunchbase announced Thursday that it is starting to track the amount of venture capital dollars invested in founders who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.The new data source is an addition to...
Taxfix leaped to a $1 billion valuation in 2022 on the back of a popular mobile app used by consumers help with tax returns. But fast forward to 2023, and the Berlin-based accounting startup is taking...
Hello, friends!If you are a founder looking to raise your first external capital or your startup is a bit farther down the line, you need to know what's going on in the world of venture capital. Don't...
Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow's your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt Stage and pi...
Welcome to the $1 trillion club, Nvidia.Nvidia's stock is up more than 6% today, pushing its shares past $413 in the wake of a widely praised earnings report.Given that the stock market has battered t...
Despite hints of a slowdown, investors still appear to be enamored with the climate tech world. Just ask those of us who cover the sector here at TechCrunch+: Our inboxes are constantly being bombarde...
Joel Khalili"I think it's funny--that's it!" says Ace, an investor in meme-based cryptocurrencies from Toronto, Canada. The point of meme coins, he explains, is that there is no point. It's all one bi...
For pretty much every startup, there's a perilous period that occurs after things are up and running but the money isn't flowing. Called the "valley of death," the conundrum is especially challenging ...
Yes, warm intros are the best way to approach investors and should ideally be your Plan A. But what if you can't get one of those?As I've discussed in the past, cold emails can work well, too, and whi...
Shared micromobility company Bird's share price fell 10.8%, or about two cents, in after-hours trading after the company said it would issue a reverse stock split. The move is Bird's attempt to get ba...
Today, the European Union approved a comprehensive set of cryptocurrency regulations seeking to lay the groundwork for how crypto is regulated globally. The rules--which make providers liable if they ...
In professional sports, player-coaches can be extraordinarily effective: Celtics center Bill Russell won two NBA championships between 1966 and 1969.A recent study suggests that this principle also ap...
The real estate industry is a bit of a greenhouse gas powerhouse, responsible for 40% of all global emissions. A quarter of that comes from building materials, and Tangible has had enough. The company...
Historically, the Black community in the U.S. has been disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is n...
A last call and a major shout-out to any and all early-stage founders. It's time to dig deep and take advantage of an unparalleled opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. I'm referring to the Startup ...
Austin Russell is on quite a run.The 28-year-old founder and CEO of Luminar, which develops vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies primarily for self-driving cars, told the Wall Street...
How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.If you look at the stock market, the view isn't very good: the charts are all down and ...
Invesco, which led Swiggy's previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant's valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing.This revised valuation, as of January...