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Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding
Mar 16, 9:30PM
We've decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I'm fairly certain we can all agree that the environment for startups has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, specifically in two major ways: The […]
Vectordash's cloud gaming service brings crypto-miners a new revenue stream
Mar 16, 6:39PM
PC gaming has grown to be a pretty wide niche of people with some far-flung similarities and differences, one thing they all share are souped-up rigs that rely on beefy GPUs. This is fine for those with dedicated machines but PC gaming isn’t too friendly to those trying to pull double-duty on their everyday machine. […]
Equity transcribed: Uber IPO, Stash's raise and more YC movement
Mar 16, 5:42PM
Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast that unpacks the numbers behind the headlines. We're running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts the words of our wildly popular venture capital podcast, Equity, in your eyes instead of your ears. This week, along with guest Anu Duggal, the […]
Pre- and Post-Money SAFEs: Choosing the right one for your startup
Mar 16, 5:15PM
Jared Verzello Contributor Jared Verzello is a startup and venture capital lawyer and GM of Atrium Seed where he guides companies through formation, fundraising, hiring, and managing board meetings. With Y Combinator's Demo Day taking place at Pier 48 in San Francisco next week, its largest batch of companies ever is getting ready to present […]
Apex Legends is prepping for a big Battle Pass launch
Mar 16, 4:38PM
Apex Legends surprised the gaming world two months ago, bringing a new, frenetic dynamic to the Battle Royale genre of games that has already attracted 50 million players. That first huge milestone didn’t come at a cheap price — EA reportedly paid Ninja $1 million to stream the game. But now the question concerns whether […]
This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
Mar 16, 2:05PM
In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply as college curriculum often lags behind the fast-changing workplace. CareerTu, a New York-based startup launched by Ruiwan Xu, a former marketing manager at Amazon, aims […]
Apple kerfuffles, praise groups, and media layoffs
Mar 16, 1:30PM
Lots of news and interesting tidbits to wrap up the week. Apple kerfuffles Apple has been vindicated (for a brief moment anyway) in its long-standing dispute with Qualcomm. From Stephen Nellis at Reuters: A U.S. federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that Qualcomm Inc owes Apple Inc nearly $1 billion in patent royalty rebate […]
Startups Weekly: Uber's headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW
Mar 16, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.
U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents
Mar 16, 11:24AM
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has chalked up another small legal victory against Apple in another patent litigation suit. A jury in a U.S. federal court in San Diego found Friday that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31M for infringing three patents, per Reuters. As we reported earlier the San Diego patent suit relates to the power consumption […]
No Man's Sky has a big new update due out this summer
Mar 16, 1:46AM
After a conspicuous stretch of silence ending with a mysterious teaser tweet on Thursday, No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray revealed that another major free update is on the way. The new content, which is the first since last year’s Visions update, will hit the massive space exploration game this summer. The bundle of new […]
XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses
Mar 15, 11:30PM
As healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of fast, low-cost genetic testing. And few people are more familiar with the problems of today’s genetic diagnostics tools than Kalim Mir, the 52-year-old founder of XGenomes, who has spent his entire professional career studying the […]
Shiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafood aisle with plans for cultured shrimp
Mar 15, 11:05PM
Rising consumer interest in alternative proteins and meat replacements has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to companies trying to grow or replace beef or chicken, but few companies have turned their attention to developing seafood alternatives. Now Shiok Meats is looking to change that. The company has raised pre-seed financing from investors like AIM […]
After Christchurch, Reddit bans communities infamous for sharing graphic videos of death
Mar 15, 10:12PM
In the aftermath of the tragic mosque massacre that claimed 49 lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, tech companies scrambled to purge their platforms of promotional materials that the shooter left behind. As most of the internet is now unfortunately aware, the event was broadcast live on Facebook, making it one of the most horrific incidents […]
Verified Expert Lawyer: Mital Makadia
Mar 15, 9:16PM
Mital Makadia's legal career began on the East Coast, with Big Law firms, but she moved into early-stage startup work with long-time Silicon Valley boutique Grellas Shah nearly a decade ago. She'll work with companies on a range of usual startup issues, but she and the firm also focus on individual founder representation (when it […]
What to watch for in a VC term sheet
Mar 15, 9:09PM
Mital Makadia Contributor Mital is a partner at Grellas Shah, focusing on representing tech startups and startup founders. She provides counsel on a variety of corporate and transactional matters and negotiates and structures equity financings, M&A transactions, and commercial and intellectual property transactions for her clients. When startup founders review a VC term sheet, they […]
Portal automatically opens doors for wheelchair users, no button pressing required
Mar 15, 8:51PM
Buttons or plates (like the one above) that automatically open doors can do a lot to make a building more accessible, but they aren’t always a perfect solution. For wheelchair users with limited upper body movement, the buttons can be tough to hit. Other times, the button is installed poorly — too high, too low, […]
Beto O'Rourke could be the first hacker president
Mar 15, 7:33PM
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed he was a member of a notorious decades-old hacking group. The former congressman was a member of the Texas-based hacker group, the Cult of the Dead Cow, known for inspiring early hacktivism in the internet age and building exploits and hacks for Microsoft Windows. The group used the […]
Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord
Mar 15, 7:30PM
Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they're either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes […]
The inevitability of tokenized data
Mar 15, 7:30PM
Chris McCoy Contributor Chris McCoy is the chief executive of Footprint and the creator of Storecoin. More posts by this contributor Yesterday’s “plastics” are today’s crypto tokens We're reaching the endgame of an inevitable showdown between big tech and regulators with a ley battleground around consumer data. In many ways, the fact that things have […]
PagerDuty just filed its S-1
Mar 15, 7:14PM
Yet another San Francisco-based company looks to be going public imminently. PagerDuty, an 8.5-year-old startup that sends a wide range of companies information about their technology, just filed its S-1, a public disclosure about its IPOs plans. PagerDuty, which helps companies quickly respond to IT incidents, as well as increasingly tries to anticipate them, had […]
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