June 2023

Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital Fund, according to a filing […]

Andreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. According to LinkedIn, Pappas first joined TikTok parent company ByteDance as a strategic advisor […]

TikTok’s COO is leaving the company by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” has taken the wraps off the large language model powering its Pi conversational agent. It’s hard to evaluate the quality of these things in any way, let alone objectively and systematically, but a little competition is a good thing. Inflection-1, as the model […]

Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

If everything seems to be going well, but you’re not getting any traction, it’s probably because you’ve run into one of these three problems.

Falling into these 3 traps means you will never raise VC funding by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch