Category : Techcrunch

Ask Sophie: How would a government shutdown affect the H-1B visa process?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Servic...

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says AI to impact the music industry within the next year

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl believes AI will be significantly impacting the music industry within the next year. Speaking at the Code Conference this week, the industry exec said the industry should soon expect the increasing quality of music...

Don’t forget to jargon-check your AI

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, where we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and dive deep into the...

Sam Altman backs Slope’s $30M round to digitize, scale B2B payments

Slope, a business-to-business payments platform for enterprise companies, closed on a venture round of $30 million to expand its business. The company intends on using the new funds on product development as it continues to take on bigger client...

Was tech’s ‘bull run’ simply a temporary surge?

For a few months this summer, it seemed that the trend of falling tech valuations was nearing an end. The U.S. pausing interest rate hikes, falling inflation in key markets, and software companies’ slowly rebounding revenue multiples led to a tr...

Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones

A company that acquires and sells zero-day exploits — flaws in software that are unknown to the affected developer — is now offering to pay researchers $20 million for hacking tools that would allow its customers to hack iPhones and Android devi...

OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Jony Ive about a hardware project

OpenAI, not content with building large language models and art-generating AI, wants to get into hardware. That’s according The Information, which reported this week that storied former Apple product designer Jony Ive is in talks with OpenAI CEO...

The Dungeons & Dragons DLC for Minecraft includes dice rolls, magic missiles and more

Minecraft just dropped its newest DLC for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) players to enjoy. In partnership with D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast and Everbloom Games, the DLC takes players on an adventure into the Forgotten Realms, letting...

Industry Ventures, with stakes in more than 600 venture firms, just raised $1.7B to snap up more stakes — and companies

Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market was red hot, and its first product — a secondary fund — was a curiosity more than anything. The ide...

Lucid opens EV factory in Saudi Arabia, home of its largest shareholder

Luxury EV maker Lucid Group has opened its first international factory in Saudi Arabia, the home of its largest shareholder. The factory, located in Jeddah, will have initial capacity to assemble 5,000 Lucid vehicles annually, according to the c...

Senser launches its AI-enhanced observability platform, raises $9.5M

Senser describes itself as an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to help developers and ops teams more easily get to the root causes of outages and service degradations. The Tel Aviv-based company today emerged from stealth and announced...

Resourcify, a platform to digitize waste management, raises €14M

Resourcify, a waste management and recycling platform, today announced that it raised €14 million ~($14.94 million) in a Series A round led by Vorwerk Ventures with participation from Revent, Ananda Impact Ventures, Speedinvest, BonVenture and W...

Akamai launches new cloud computing regions in Asia, Europe and the Americas

Akamai today announced a major expansion of its cloud computing presence around the world. While you might still think of Akamai as a content delivery service, the acquisition of Linode a year ago clearly signaled its ambition to become a major...

Rayon is a collaborative design tool for architects and designers

When you think about collaborative design tools, chances are you immediately start thinking about Figma, the popular design tool that Adobe wants to acquire for $20 billion (by the way, that acquisition is still pending regulatory approval). A r...

QED and Partech back South African payment orchestration platform Revio in $5.2M seed

The payment landscape in Africa is still fragmented, with several payment operators providing different payment options to customers as well as businesses. Due to this fragmentation, payment failures are inevitable due to factors such as invalid...