Who’s to blame for all the SPAC implosions?

It appears that we have yet another SPAC meltdown on our hands. Embark, a maker of autonomous trucking software, has laid off most of its staff, intends to use... Read more »

Tick tock — 4 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes

The hands of time are relentless, and so is the countdown to the biggest savings on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt — taking place September 19–21 in San Francisco. Here’s... Read more »

Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. The money to make it happen, however? That leaves a thing or two to be... Read more »

Salesforce Ventures targets new $250M fund at generative AI startups

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.” The cloud... Read more »

Gatik’s Gautam Narang on the importance of knowing your customer

Gatik is something of an outlier in the autonomous vehicle space. Whereas most companies are either trying to scale robotaxis or commercialize long-haul self-driving with Class 8 trucks, Gatik... Read more »

Sonos to add support for spatial audio on Apple Music on March 28

Sonos announced today that Sonos customers will have access to spatial audio on Apple Music starting March 28. The company says it’s Apple Music’s first partner to bring spatial... Read more »

Apple releases new yellow iPhone 14 and 14 Plus

Apple has a tendency to introduce a new iPhone color in Spring. And this time, it’s yellow. The company is adding the color option to both iPhone 14 and... Read more »

Believer, a new approach to gaming, raises $55M from Lightspeed, A16Z, and more

Gaming is at a crossroads these days: a decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic concepts is now engaged in a battle royale with innovations... Read more »

Candidly picks up student debt relief where new US policies leave off

Student debt relief has been a hot topic for years now, with some big things happening — policy-wise — in the past year: Last summer, the Biden administration announced... Read more »

Roami takes on Airbnb with creativity, grit and $14M

It takes a special kind of gumption to wake up in the morning and say ‘you know what? I can do better than Airbnb,’ but that’s what Andreas King-Geovanis... Read more »
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