It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called, Twitter. The platform had punched about its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivalled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]
Twitter is dying by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
We are still likely many years away from wide-scale deployment — let alone adoption — of fully autonomous vehicles on our streets, but in the meantime autonomous vehicle companies focusing on closed-campus environments continue to raise funding and make headway in building self-driving on a smaller scale. In the latest, a startup called Venti Technologies […]
Venti raises $29M for autonomous vehicle tech designed for industrial and logistics hubs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include AI-powered meeting summaries, prompt-based email responses, and whiteboard generation along with video “Huddles” and a meeting scheduler. The company wants you to shift more of […]
Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
The company is betting that outsourcing will fast-track its unique fusion reactor designs.
Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Last-mile robotics startup Neubility — which makes autonomous delivery robots that work without lidar — says that it plans bump its fleet up to 400 by the end of this year, up from the 50 it currently has in circulation. The goal is part of an ambitious plan that the Seoul-based startup has laid out […]
Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
If you’re not careful, you can come up against delays, or worse, investors pulling out at the last minute.
For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch
It’s 2023, and we’re years past the peak of monster fundraising for on-demand transportation and delivery startups locked in highly competitive races with each other to dominate urban consumer mobility. But with many of the biggest and most tenacious players still in the market, those rounds have not disappeared altogether. Today, Cabify — the Madrid-based platform […]
Cabify, the Madrid-based Uber rival, says it’s raised $110M in new funding by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
German launch startup Isar Aerospace has scored $165 million (€155 million) in new funding as it races toward the inaugural flight of its Spectrum small rocket later this year. The company, founded in 2018, is one of a handful of European startups looking to fill the gap in the launch market on that continent. There […]
Isar Aerospace raises $165 million to bring more sovereign launch to Europe by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch