July 12, 2026

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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Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM’s?

July 12, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic and dig deep. This week we had a very special guest on the podcast: Matthew Lynley. Long-time listeners will recall […]

Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM’s? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M

July 12, 2023

Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV. Co-founded in 2021 by former Buffer CTO Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown, a former Docker engineer and the former head of engineering at healthcare company […]

Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature

July 12, 2023

Ahead of the highly anticipated “Barbie” premiere on July 21, Bumble is launching a new experience where users can get message suggestions from all the Barbies and Kens featured in the movie, including main Barbie (played by Margot Robbie), President Barbie (Issa Rae), Ken #2 (Simu Lu) and more. The message suggestions will be part […]

Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Fold Health streamlines admin work for value-based care providers

July 12, 2023

Abhijit Gupta and Ram Sahasranam have plenty of experience in the healthtech space, having sold their first startup, health app maker Praxify, to Athenahealth. Now the duo are focused on value-based care. Fold Health is their operating system for cutting down on the amount of admin work performed by value-based providers. Today, the startup announced […]

Fold Health streamlines admin work for value-based care providers by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Google TV adds The Roku Channel to its free, streaming TV lineup

July 12, 2023

The Roku Channel is now available on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, Roku announced Wednesday. The free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel can now be downloaded through the Google Play Store. Starting today, users have access to over 80,000 new titles and more than 350 live TV channels for free. This includes […]

Google TV adds The Roku Channel to its free, streaming TV lineup by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Adobe says Firefly has now generated 1B images, takes it global

July 12, 2023

Adobe today announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages — including Klingon (both Latin and plaqaD, in case you were wondering). The user interface is now available in 20 languages, including in German, French, Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. In addition to expanding access, […]

Adobe says Firefly has now generated 1B images, takes it global by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch