The US Sues Apple in an iPhone Antitrust Blockbuster
The Department of Justice lawsuit is the most aggressive legal challenge yet to Apple's dominant ecosystem....
21 março, 2024
VCs double down on fintech Coast, which aims to be the Brex for ‘real-world’ industries
The expense management arena is a crowded one, with well-funded players such as Brex, Ramp and Navan all clamoring for market share. Those companies are generally focused on tech startups and large corporations. But a four-year-old contender, Coast, is pursuing a different type of customer...
21 março, 2024
The Browser Company raises $50 million at $550 million valuation
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company’s head of storytelling Nashilu Mouen confirmed the investment to TechCrunch. “Now, more than ever, we...
21 março, 2024
Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open-source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering free alternatives to Redis’ own hosted services, Redis will now be dual-licensed under the...
21 março, 2024
Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup....
21 março, 2024
BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Has a Car-Wide Screen and a ‘Joy’ Brain
The German automaker exposes what the next generation of BMW EVs will look like inside and out—including better batteries, a fancy new central computer, and a massive new windscreen display....
21 março, 2024
Pelikan Mobility is building a software-enabled commercial EV leasing solution
Chances are you may have noticed that many commercial vehicles are now electric vehicles — think about delivery vans, telecom minivans, utility maintenance trucks, etc. But there are still many diesel-powered commercial vehicles because it’s simply too expensive and too complicated to switch to an all...
21 março, 2024
Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to better farm outcomes
Globally, a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, and in Kenya, that figure stands at between 20% to 40%. For Kenya, unlike the developed world, food loss, not waste, is the greater problem, with small-scale farmers, who account for 75% of the...
21 março, 2024
Greenly lands $52M to help smaller companies track CO2 emissions
The carbon accounting startup targets SMBs to help them assess the carbon footprint of their operations and products. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 março, 2024
With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech
OTB Ventures' new $185 million fund for deep tech in Europe will mostly be deployed at the Series A stage; but up to 10% could be allocated to seed funding, and more than 50% to follow-on investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
20 março, 2024
Candela’s electric ferries multiply as the startup lines up $25M in new funding
Electric boat maker Candela is approaching cruising speed with $25 million in new funding and the first commercial deployment of its new P-12 ferry, in New Zealand. The company has global ambitions for its highly efficient boats, and has completed and delivered dozens of them...
20 março, 2024
Astera Labs’ IPO pops 54%, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI-twist is high
Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company, which provides “semiconductor-based connectivity solutions transforming the future of AI,” priced its IPO last night at $36 per share, above its raised price...
20 março, 2024
Amber launches Tesla warranty service to help owners of aging EVs
Owners of aging EVs aren’t exactly flush with options if something breaks after the original warranty expires. One Bay Area startup called Amber thinks it can help them navigate that minefield, starting with Tesla owners. The company, founded in early 2023, announced Wednesday it has...
20 março, 2024
Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder Knut Sveidqvist created the project because he saw a need for it in his...
20 março, 2024
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise....
20 março, 2024
GitHub’s latest AI tool that can automatically fix code vulnerabilities
It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code scanning autofix feature for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities during the coding...
20 março, 2024
AirMyne taps geothermal energy to scale direct air carbon capture
The startup is betting its proprietary liquid and partnerships with enhanced geothermal energy companies will solve some of direct air capture's problems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
20 março, 2024
Astera Labs goes public, and the Inflection-Microsoft AI saga continues
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, focused on startup and venture capital news that matters. Today we have a grip of startup stories, and...
20 março, 2024
ServiceNow is developing AI through mix of building, buying and partnering
Every enterprise software company out there is working to bring more workflow automation and AI to the platform. ServiceNow has been on this journey for some time now, and given the kind of data it collects via interactions on its platform, it’s building more refined...
20 março, 2024
Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini
In a never-ending saga between Google and France’s competition authority over copyright protections for news snippets, the Autorité de la Concurrence announced a €250 million fine against the tech giant Wednesday (around $270 million at today’s exchange rate). According to the competition watchdog, Google disregarded...
20 março, 2024
OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from programming to learning about esoteric scientific subjects...
20 março, 2024
Volunteer your time for a free ticket to Early Stage 2024
Join us for an unforgettable opportunity at TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston on April 25! We’re on the lookout for enthusiastic volunteers to be part of this exciting event. If you’ve ever wondered what goes into the making of tech gatherings, now’s your chance to...
20 março, 2024
Healthcare platform Anima brings Salesforce-like capabilities to clinics, raises $12M
Globally, healthcare IT systems are groaning under the weight of legacy platforms. Thankfully, there’s a new wave of startups entering the arena: UK startup Anima is a “care enablement” platform that operates almost like a combination of Slack, Salesforce and Figma, but for healthcare clinics...
20 março, 2024
Casper’s co-founder is helping launch an incubator for climate tech startups
The new firm follows the startup studio model, hoping to tap into a likely wave of climate-related investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
20 março, 2024
Meet the first roundtable roster at TC Early Stage 2024
You won’t have to search very hard or go very far to engage in compelling conversations next month at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. One of the most popular attractions at Early Stage are roundtables. These expert-led, small-group conversations focus on a specific topic designed to...
20 março, 2024
White House proposes up to $8.5B to fund Intel’s domestic chip manufacturing
Well before President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law back in August 2022, Intel has been a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to increase domestic chip manufacturing. This morning, the White House announced an agreement with the Department of Commerce that would...
20 março, 2024
Audio platform Pocket FM bags $103M in funding as it eyes global expansion
India-based audio platform Pocket FM has secured $103 million in Series D funding led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Stepstone Group. The company, which counts Tencent and Times Internet as backers, aims to expand into Europe and Latin America after looking at positive results...
20 março, 2024
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history....
20 março, 2024
Smart ring maker Ultrahuman has its eye on Oura’s crown
India’s Ultrahuman is prepping for a growth tear. Today it’s announcing the close of $35 million in Series B* funding, a mix of equity ($25M) and debt. The smart ring startup is a less familiar name than category veteran — and market leader — Oura....
20 março, 2024
PocketHealth eases doctor-patient communications with easy image exchange
Have you ever needed a copy of your medical imaging to take to your doctor or another healthcare provider and received the images on a CD? Many radiologists still use this ancient format to transfer patients’ imaging files. A startup called PocketHealth has built an medical...
20 março, 2024
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