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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Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games

June 20, 2023

Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs, intoxication, or excessive tobacco use,” […]

Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

New European+LatAm VC fund Boost Capital Partners takes aim at startups with games-level UX

June 20, 2023

Boost Capital Partners is the name of a new European + LatAm VC fund which aims to focus on startups with a focus on user experience. The London-based VC has hit its first close of $35 million, with a target of $40 million. It’s been founded by Alvaro Alvarez del Rio, who has backed around […]

New European+LatAm VC fund Boost Capital Partners takes aim at startups with games-level UX by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch