Tag: Startup

Mary Ann and Alex are back, and once again this week they tapped the TechCrunch roster for expert input. This week the Equity crew were thrilled to welcome Jacquie back to the show! All the cool kids are filling out the Equity listener survey. We want to hear from you!  It was a hectic week, with little…

At WWDC this week, Apple revealed its new Vision Pro headset, a platform it described as the advent of spatial computing. The company clearly put a lot of work into building Vision Pro, and VisionOS, the software that powers it, but is it as revolutionary as Apple marketing would have you believe? Today, Darrell is…

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 05: The new Apple [+][-] Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC23 developer conference with the announcement of the new Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty…

The Fintech 50 2023 forbes.com/lists/fintech50 he past year has been brutal for some fintech startups, as valuations crashed, cash dwindled, layoffs mounted and fire sales and failures loomed. With stock prices for publicly traded fintechs off an average of 60% from their peak, private funding has plummeted too–in 2022, venture capitalists invested $75 billion globally

Haul247, a Nigerian end-to-end logistics platform connecting businesses to haulage and warehousing assets, has raised a $3 million seed round. Gender-lens investing fund Alitheia Capital provided the equity capital, with Investment One contributing $1 million in debt financing. The logistics startup allows small businesses and large companies to book trucks and warehouses across multiple African…

Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as its PR puts it. There’s no word on who will attend as yet — but…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinDanielle Cohen-Shohet, founder and CEO of GlossGenius, one of 19 newcomers on the Fintech 50 list. Glossgenius; Creative Crop/Getty Images Venture capital funding is down dramatically, but innovation is still thriving, with 19 of the companies on our eighth annual honor roll new to the list. Reported by Steven…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinPatrick Collison, cofounder and CEO of Stripe, the payments giant that remains the most valuable privately held U.S. fintech despite a steep drop in its valuation. Photo by Ethan Pines for Forbes; Yevgen Romanenko/Getty Images Its valuation has fallen by nearly half, but Stripe, at $50 billion, remains the…

COVID-19 has upended many aspects of busienss, including the way enterprises sell software. As the pandemic kept people at home, SaaS sales teams were forced to adjust their strategies. In the past, they relied mostly on in-person meetings to close deals, but with social distancing measures in place during the pandemic, they turned to the…

The DevOps software provider’s shares accomplished something impressive today…