As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round

Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures, was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017.... Read more »

Instagram’s new payments feature lets users buy products via DMs

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a new “payments in chat” feature on Instagram. With this new feature, users can purchase products from small... Read more »

Smartphone shipments dropped 9% in Q2

Bad news about smartphone shipments has become the norm, rather than the exception, in recent years. The trend pre-dates the pandemic, but has only accelerated during the pandemic, thanks... Read more »

Five reasons to attend TC Sessions: Robotics this Thursday

We’re just a few days away from kicking off TC Sessions: Robotics on July 21. This online event will draw roboticists from around the world, and it’s your opportunity... Read more »

When will India make up its mind about crypto?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest,... Read more »

Discover the many ways to network at TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt returns live and in person October 18–20 in San Francisco, with an online day on October 21. That means it’s time to refresh your face-to-face networking skills,... Read more »

Meta’s Giphy deal lives to fight another day: competition appeals tribunal blocks forced sale on disclosure grounds

Facebook parent Meta’s been putting up a strong fight appealing the UK antitrust decision investigating and ultimately ordering Meta to sell Giphy, the GIF marketplace that it acquired back... Read more »

Intrinsic CEO Wendy Tan White discusses robotics software and acquiring Vicarious

It’s been more than two decades since Moonfruit launched as the first SaaS website builder. It was a good run for a service launched at the height of the... Read more »

New documents reveal ‘huge’ scale of US government’s cell phone location data tracking

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a much larger scale than previously known, according to new documents unearthed by the... Read more »

You may need more than one pitch deck

In a lot of the pitch deck teardowns, I get stumped by a certain slide, even though I am 99% sure that when a founder uses it to pitch... Read more »
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