Tag: Startup

I often hear founders say they are raising money to increase their runway by 18 to 24 months. In a sense, that is accurate, but only from the startup’s point of view. However, that’s not what an investor is looking for. Your company surviving for another year and a half is not the goal of…

The warehouse club keeps building on one of its major advantages while its rival moves backward…

Just because you don’t work for Amazon doesn’t mean this major change won’t make your life worse…

Sam Chaudhary takes his time. The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech consumer app that focuses on student classrooms, spent eight years building the company before introducing a formal revenue model. All while raising over tens of millions in venture capital from elite Silicon Valley investors and eyeing a big mission: become the brand families can…

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued a launch license to SpaceX for the Starship orbital flight test, which could now take place as soon as Monday. A 150-minute test window will open at 7:00 a.m. local time (CST), SpaceX said on its website. The long-awaited launch license came at the very end of business…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Friday, our crunchiest of friends! Over the last few days, we’ve been telling you about all the cool stuff that’s happening at Disrupt. Well, guess what — we’re getting a hardware…

Lina Khan is no fan of Amazon Inc.  (AMZN) – Get Free Report. In 2018, as a law student at Yale University, she authored an influential paper that called for greater antitrust regulation of the e-commerce giant. Her main argument: Amazon does not behave rationally. While most publicly traded companies want to generate profits, Amazon does…

A slew of new funds indicate potential for dedicated pools for climate startups Venture capital activity around climate tech has been heating up in Africa despite the global VC funding cooldown. The continent’s climate tech startups secured over $860 million in equity funding, largely driven by clean energy technologies, representing 3.5x growth amid macroeconomic headwinds…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline The alleged killer of Bob Lee, a tech executive who was stabbed to death in San Francisco earlier this month, has reportedly been arrested and turned out to be a fellow tech industry worker who knew Lee, according to a local news report. Police have arrested Bob Lee’s…