Disney+ ad-supported plan is now available on Roku devices

Roku has announced that the ad-supported Disney+ tier, Disney+ Basic, is now available to its users. When the ad-supported plan launched four months, many users were surprised to find... Read more »

Pitch Deck Teardown: Smalls’ $19M Series B deck

Smalls has raised a total of $34 million for its cat food subscription business. But in a competitive pet food market, how does the company set itself from its... Read more »

Discover the SaaS Stage at Disrupt 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back September 19–21, 2023 — and we’ve mixed up the format. This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions,... Read more »

SoftBank LatAm sees past recent losses, remains bullish on region

When SoftBank announced in 2019 that it had allocated $5 billion to investing in Latin American startups, it felt like an inflection point for the region. And then when... Read more »

Nestle takes a big swig of Yfood in a deal that values the meal replacement startup at $469M

Yfood, one of the direct-to-consumer food tech startups that has emerged over the last decade around the concept of meal replacement drinks, is bulking up. Nestle, the food and... Read more »

Legal powerhouse Proskauer exposed clients’ confidential M&A data

A security lapse saw Proskauer Rose, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, expose sensitive client data for more than six months, TechCrunch has learned. A person... Read more »

Forme Financial launches out of beta as Earned to help physicians manage wealth

Forme Financial, a wealth management platform for physicians, is emerging from beta with a new name and $12 million in Series A funding. Now called Earned, the New York-based... Read more »

How hard was it to raise venture capital in Q1?

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where... Read more »

SetSail adds ChatGPT questioning capabilities on top of sales data

SetSail set out to build a new way to compensate sales people, where based on the data, companies could pay salespeople on where they were in the pipeline, not... Read more »

Lyft re-launches EV service, starting with business travelers

Lyft is re-launching a feature that will allow riders to request an electric or hybrid vehicle for their next pickup. The service, Lyft Green, will initially only be available... Read more »
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