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The TechCrunch Top 3 Just a ârealignment’: Microsoft is the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs. Itâs just a small portion of its workforce â less than 1% of its 180,000-person employee base â and Kyle reports the company said the move was the result of ârealigning business groups and roles.â We have a feeling there will be more announcements from other companies doing the same. Who knew a whiteboard could be so exciting?: Hearth Display, thatâs who. The startup brought in $2.8 million to turn your whiteboard into a 27-inch display to show off the familyâs to-do list, Ivan writes. It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag â $499. It comes with 2 years of free software, but better get it now before that becomes $699 with $9 per month for software. Hopefully no one was injured: SpaceXâs Starship test last evening ended in an explosion. Darrell has more. |
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Startups and VC They say thereâs a market wobble in progress, but you wouldnât think so by the number of new funds and venture firms that got announced today. Six of them, in fact: $100 million for crypto: Protagonist launches $100 million fund to make early-stage crypto companies the main character by Jacquelyn. $20 million for legacy industries: C2 Ventures raises new fund to invest in the âdull, dirty and dangerousâ by Catherine. $500 million for India and SE Asia startups: Lightspeed raises $500 million for its new India and Southeast Asia fund by Manish. $1 billion for multistage startups: Cathay Innovation launches third multistage startup fund at $1 billion by Paul.  $10 million for science-based companies: Conscience VC raises oversubscribed fund for consumer companies rooted in science by Becca. And another $430 million for crypto: Crypto-focused Multicoin Capital launches $430 million venture fund by Jacquelyn. Whew! That was a lot of new funds all in one day. Donât worry, though, we have some nonfund news too: Airlift comes down for landing: Manish reports that Pakistanâs Airlift is shutting down, citing funding and market conditions. The machines are still learning: Kyle reports that Tecton raises a whopping $100 million, showing that machine learning continues to be a growth market. Oh, itâs Nothing: Thereâs a shiny new smartphone on the block, as Nothingâs Phone (1) is officially announced, Brian reports. Living on the edge: Another monster round in the computing space, as Scale Computing secures $55 million to help companies manage their edge-computing infrastructure, Kyle writes. Hello, swimmers: Posterity Health wants to help address male fertility needs, Kate reports. Dude, where are you?: It sucks to not be able to hear the person on the other end of the line. New tech is on the way in the form of  this open source earbuds project, reports Haje. Weâre charged up!: In a world where a lot of cars are moving to being battery-powered, battery recycling is seeing a lot of investor interest, reports Jaclyn. |
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| Basic best practices will not help your company endure this winter, so we invited M13 managing partner Karl Alomar to join us on a Twitter Space to discuss six strategies for leading startups through a downturn: Using âruthless prioritizationâ to find proof points. Investors still expect âhealthy growth.â Why founders need to secure 24+ months of runway. How to talk to your investors about pivoting. When itâs okay to leave money on the table. What you need to do differently to fundraise during a downturn. Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says itâs critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. âThe decisions you make in your business are going to affect all the people that work for you, so you have to be able to manage and communicate across all those stakeholders very effectively,â he said. (TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can sign up here.) Read More |
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Big Tech Inc. Walmartâs new agreement with Canoo to order 4,500 electric vehicles for last-mile delivery seems to have come at a good time for Canoo. Kirsten writes that in May, the company was warning investors that it might not have enough money to stay in business. The news also gave Canoo a nice bump to its share price. In the latest saga involving Twitter, the social media giantâs lawyers are calling Elon Muskâs attempt to get out of an acquisition deal âinvalid and wrongful,â Ivan writes. All of this drama is dragging Twitter shares down with it. Meanwhile, Twitter is letting users âunmentionâ themselves in tweets, Aisha reports. Weâre thinking Twitter wishes it could unmention itself from all this nonsense. We are your place for all things Spotify. First, Amanda has coverage of the company acquiring music guessing game Heardle. Definitely something to help you bone up for that next music trivia game night. Then we have Ivan writing about Spotify expanding its video podcast publishing feature to an additional six countries. Speaking of layoffs: Rivian is saying it will be making some. Kirsten reports that the electric truck maker is planning to lay off 5% of its workforce. More car news: Carly writes that Hondaâs key fob has a flaw that enables hackers to remotely unlock doors and start the cars. Meanwhile, Volkswagen and Audi found a place for all their old electric vehicles batteries, Kirsten writes. Picture this: Haje reports that Nikon, supposedly, is not going to be in the SLR business anymore. Who has the better deal?: Now that Klarna raised in a down round, Alex wonders what this means for other buy now, pay later companies, namely Affirm. Adding to the Instacart: Alex also saw that Instacart was adding quite a few names to its senior leadership roster and did some digging. TikTok on Europeâs clock: TikTok has agreed to pause its policy update in Europe while it works to address scrutiny over part of its policy that would stop asking users for their consent to be tracked for things like advertisements. |
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