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Antonio Rodriguez, who joined Matrix in 2005 after a company he’d founded — that Matrix backed — was sold to Hewlett-Packard, talked with us last week about Matrix’s biggest fund in roughly 20 years, an $800 million vehicle that the firm closed in June and is announcing for the first time now. It’s a lot […]

Matrix Partners, long an investor in software infrastructure, has some questions about web3 by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

We’re on the home stretch, startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off in less than 10 days and runs from October 18–20. This message goes out to all the last-minute decision-makers. It’s the final week you can save serious cheddar on a Disrupt pass. It’s go time. Buy your pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. […]

It’s your last week to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

In the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso,” characters Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) and Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh) download Bantr, a fictional dating app where users can’t see each other’s photos. Bumble, the women-focused dating app, has now partnered with “Ted Lasso” to bring the experience of Bantr to its users. On Thursday, October 13, Bumble […]

Apple TV+’s ‘Ted Lasso’ partners with Bumble to give users a blind dating experience by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Climate tech investment is about to go exponential.

Fears of climate tech underinvestment are probably overblown by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

As Meta makes deeper inroads with businesses on WhatsApp, its biggest bet to monetize the instant messaging app with over 2 billion users, we are getting an early glimpse at how user experience might change on the free app. It’s not great. Scores of people in India, WhatsApp’s largest market by users with over 500 […]

In India, businesses are increasingly spamming users on WhatsApp by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Let’s talk crypto venture capital activity, NFT activity, price changes, DeFi, and, finally, September trading data.

Green shoots appear in crypto land as winter reigns by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube is making it easier for creators to direct viewers to their channels. The company today announced “handles,” a new way for creators to identify their channel with an @username format in order to interact with their viewers across YouTube Shorts, channel pages, in video descriptions, in comments, and more. These handles will be made […]

YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch