These Retirees Just Wanted Their Cats to Drink More Water. Now Their Remote Side Hustle Makes $80,000 a Year.
This couple wanted to make and sell something from the comfort of their home. Now they’re offering up their playbook for others.
Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs’s words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. “I didn’t expect Yosemite to be moving this fast,” he said.
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Shell (SHEL), Devon Energy (DVN), and Par Pacific (PARR): Energy Stock Buy, Hold or Sell?
Growing demand worldwide and constrained crude supply aggravated by extended production cuts by Saudi and Russia are expected to push oil and gas prices higher, boosting the energy sector’s prospects….
Defence AI startup Helsing breaks the record for European AI, raising a $223M Series B
Helsing, a ‘Defence AI’ startup backed by Spotify founder Daniel Ek which had previosuly raised €102.5 million, has today pulled in another €209 million ($223 million) in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst. Swedish heavy industry and defence group Saab is joining as a strategic investor, deepening what was previously an existing […]
Pixis, an AI-powered full-stack marketing platform, raises $85M
Pixis, an AI-powered platform for brands to monitor and orchestrate their marketing campaigns, today announced that it raised $85 million in a Series C1 round led by Touring Capital with participation from Grupo Carso, General Atlantic, Celesta Capital and Chiratae Ventures. The funding brings Pixis’ total raised to $209 million, and comes at a time […]
Former DCG, Blockchain Capital investors launch $20M early-stage fund at crypto advisory firm Reverie
After a couple years of dabbling in angel investments, crypto advisory firm Reverie is now bringing a bigger checkbook to bear. The firm is launching a flagship $20 million fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage crypto companies, its co-founder Larry Sukernik exclusively told TechCrunch. The fund, anchored by two U.S.-based institutional investors that Sukernik […]
Patronus AI conjures up an LLM evaluation tool for regulated industries
It turns out that when you put together two AI experts, both of whom formerly worked at Meta researching responsible AI, magic happens. The founders of Patronus AI came together last March to build a solution to evaluate and test large language models with an eye towards regulated industries where there is little tolerance for […]
Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom
Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion. This round sticks out, particularly as many late-stage startups are seeing their valuations being slashed amid a wider funding slowdown. Databricks last raised $1.6 billion in August of 2021 at a […]
Smart display company Hearth Display raises $4.6M additional funding
Hearth Display, a hardware company making digital whiteboards for family task management, has raised $4.6 million in additional funding. The round, which is a bridge round, has a mix of existing and new investors including Female Founders Fund, Stellation Capital, Sweater Ventures, Behind Genius Ventures, an SPV led by Golden Hour Ventures and Dream Ventures, […]
Tech-Free, Debt-Free: How Simplifying Your Tech Can Save You Money
Without food and water, humans can only live for several days. However, according to one survey, most people could only survive a few hours without their electronics and WiFi. According…
OpenAI to open its first EU office as it readies for regulatory hurdles
OpenAI is set to open its first office in the European Union (EU) and make several strategic hires, as the company prepares for regulatory headwinds. The ChatGPT-maker says that it plans to open its third office, after San Francisco and London which it announced in June, in Ireland, which has emerged as almost a second […]