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Startup Blueprint: TC Disrupt 2024 Builders Stage agenda sneak peek!

May 15, 2024

TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship startup event held annually in San Francisco, is back on October 28-30 — and you can expect a bustling crowd of thousands of startup enthusiasts. Exciting news! We’re thrilled to unveil the near-complete agenda for the Builders Stage, the culmination of months of hard work. This is just one of six […]

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Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

May 15, 2024

Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo! recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer. As CPO, Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, management and design efforts, Anthropic says, as the company works to expand […]

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Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds

May 15, 2024

As cloud adoption continues to surge towards the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we’re seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors for tools to help manage that usage. In the latest development, a startup called Alkira has raised $100 million for “network infrastructure as a service”, which lets users […]

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Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms

May 15, 2024

While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI. The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tune AI models is disorganized, siloed, and otherwise unoptimized. […]

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If You Want Funding, These Are the Financial Reports VCs Need to See

May 15, 2024
When you’re trying to attract new investors, there are several financial reports and metrics you’ll need to have ready before you have a chance at potential funding. As the CEO of a venture capital firm and investment group, here’s what you need for the best pitch.