Planetarians grabs $6M to get its plant-based protein into foodservice orbit

A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians, a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau... Read more »

Zerocater raises $15M as demand heats up for flexible in-office food services

Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the days when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) — was growing at a fast clip and... Read more »

5 buyer red flags to look for during the M&A process

Marina Martianova Contributor Share on Twitter Marina Martianova, founder and CEO of Seamm, is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first startup at the age of 21. The global... Read more »

Former Amazon, Starbucks exec launches Yelp-like platform to review and discover NFTs

Amid signs of life in the NFT market, an NFT-focused startup, Thred, launched today to help users discover new collections, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “We think of it... Read more »

Lightspeed backs CommandK’s mission to become the go-to enterprise security command center

CommandK, a startup offering a dedicated platform to manage enterprise security, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed. Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data... Read more »

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance pulls in another €12M from existing investors

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance, which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard.... Read more »

South Korea boosts its AI chip industry with $642M amid ChatGPT frenzy

South Korea hopes to be a key player in fulfilling the new global demand for next-generation AI chips, and today the government put some money where its mouth is:... Read more »

SoftBank joins game-focused blockchain Oasys as validator

As many observers question what real value blockchain can bring to video games, a conglomerate is vouching for the space. SoftBank Corp, the telecom operator arm of SoftBank Group,... Read more »

Firefox for Android gets extension for listening to articles and hiding email addresses

Mozilla has added three new extensions for its Android web browser. Firefox only has a limit set of extensions on Android, and today’s new extensions add features and improve... Read more »

German startup Kern AI nabs seed funding for modular NLP development platform

Natural language processing (NLP), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train... Read more »
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