Ramp raises another $150 million co-led by Khosla, Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation

April 17, 2024

Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also included participation from new backers Sequoia Capital, Greylock and 8VC. Existing investors Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Sands Capital, D1 Capital, Lux Capital, Iconiq Capital, […]

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How Low Could Stocks Go?

April 17, 2024
The S&P 500 (SPY) is starting to test key support levels for the first time since November 2023 given continuing signs that Fed rate cuts are getting pushed further and…

Alphabet X’s Bellwether harnesses AI to help predict natural disasters

April 17, 2024

The world is on fire. Quite literally, much of the time quite literally. Predicting such disasters before they get out of hand — or better yet, before they happen — will be key to maintaining a reasonable quality of life for the coming century. It’s a big, global issue. It’s also one Alphabet believes it […]

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Don’t blame MKBHD for the fate of Humane AI and Fisker

April 17, 2024

Humane AI raised more than $230 million before it even shipped a product. And when it finally released its Ai Pin – which costs $699 plus a $24 monthly subscription – pretty much every tech reviewer came to the same disappointing realization: this much-hyped product, which promises to disrupt the smartphone’s dominance, is not very […]

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Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit

April 17, 2024

Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space. Dark CEO Clyde Laheyne said the company is aiming to become the “S.W.A.T. team of space.” The three-year-old startup is developing Interceptor, a spacecraft […]

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