HashiCorp acquires code security startup BluBracket

Infrastructure automation company HashiCorp today announced that it has acquired code security startup BluBracket. Founded by the team behind Vera Security, BluBracket raised a $12 million Series A round... Read more »

Snowflake-Nvidia partnership could make it easier to build generative AI applications

Snowflake has always been about storing large amounts of unstructured data in the cloud. With two recent acquisitions, Neeva and Streamlit, it will make it easier to search and... Read more »

Gusto reaches $500M in trailing revenue, teams up with Remote to support international hires

Gusto, best known for its American payroll management software and services, is playing in the big leagues. TechCrunch+ has exclusively learned that Gusto has surpassed a significant revenue milestone:... Read more »

LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked

A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware. The... Read more »

Cisco increases its network monitoring capabilities with a couple of acquisitions

In 2020, Cisco bought Thousandeyes, a network monitoring company that provides a wealth of data on the health of networks, something near and dear to Cisco, whose core business... Read more »

Sandwich, known for its commercials, looks to help younger startups in exchange for equity

Sandwich, an L.A.-based, 17-person outfit, has produced many commercials on behalf of tech companies over its 14-year history, including Square, Slack and Figma. Sometimes, it has taken equity in... Read more »

4 VCs illustrate why there’s good reason to be optimistic about the machine learning startup market

When you talk about investments in artificial intelligence startups versus machine learning startups, it’s important to distinguish “AI” from “machine learning.” Those phrases are often used interchangeably, but they... Read more »

Brilliant Labs puts AI in front of your eye with its tiny open-source AR lens

Brilliant Labs’ augmented reality wearable stands in stark contrast to Apple’s pricey, bulky, stealthy Vision Pro. The startup’s inaugural product, Monocle, is an open-source, pocket-sized AR lens that can... Read more »

Prosus slashes edtech giant Byju’s valuation to $5.1 billion

Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju’s, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant, implying a starkly diminished valuation of $5.1 billion to the... Read more »

Announcing the Fintech Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt

Building a fintech startup isn’t an easy task, as you have to deal with complex regulation and make sure that your service is extremely reliable because you’re handling money.... Read more »
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