I’m going to save you some time: many, if not most, of you are probably not yet ready to pitch an investor.
How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023 by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
The data set shows that in Q1 2023, Black founders raised an estimated $312 million out of the around $45 billion Crunchbase totaled for the quarter.
At 0.69% in Q1, the dip in funding for Black founders ‘no longer evokes an emotional response’ by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch
WhatsApp is finally rolling out multi-device login support for all users. That means you can use up to four phones for one account. Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature’s rollout on Facebook and Instagram. “Starting today, you can log into the same WhatsApp account on up to four phones,” he said. WhatsApp said that this feature […]
WhatsApp’s multi-device feature now supports more than one phone by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Yahoo today announced that it has acquired Wagr, a three-year-old social sports betting startup based out of Nashville. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch, whose parent company happens to be the now Apollo-owned Yahoo, covered Wagr way back at its inception in 2020 at one of its early investor’s demo days. We noted […]
Yahoo acquires social sports betting app Wagr by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
To date, Summer has delivered over $1 billion in total projected savings for student loan borrowers across the United States.
Summer’s student debt repayment tools continue blooming with $6M Series A extension by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful. The Verge’s James Vincent once called one such model an “emotionally manipulative liar,” which pretty much sums up the current state of things. The companies behind these models say that they’re taking steps to fix […]
Nvidia releases a toolkit to make text-generating AI ‘safer’ by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch