December 2022

Meta employees were told that they should not discuss sensitive issues like abortion, gun control, pending legislation and vaccine efficacy at work. Fortune reported on these changes, citing a leaked internal memo from Lori Goler, head of people at Meta. TechCrunch confirmed the report with a Meta spokesperson. “As Mark mentioned recently, we need to […]

Meta won’t let staff discuss topics like abortion, gun control and vaccines at work by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

While most fintech unicorns are still garnering impressive valuations, the sector’s hype from last year has started to fade.

Fintech unicorn valuations have fallen hard in 2022 by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not surprising, given their backgrounds. Before launching their venture firm, 645 Ventures, in 2014, Okike was a principal with the data-driven investment giant Insight Partners. Meanwhile Holiday, who came directly from DFJ Gotham Ventures, was previously […]

A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

FTX and Alameda Research had their hands in a bunch of different startups. The depth of its roster of investments wasn’t very transparent until now.

FTX and Alameda’s massive investments will take a long time to unwind from crypto industry by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, the company said Tuesday. Shares will be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker “VFS.” VinFast, which was founded in 2017 and began operations in 2019, will convert to a Singapore public limited company for the IPO. The number […]

Vietnamese luxury EV-maker VinFast files to go public on Nasdaq by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield was the third Salesforce exec to step down in less than a week.

As Butterfield exits stage left, it’s fair to wonder what’s happening at Salesforce by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch