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Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst’s indie band, Good Kid, is almost as successful as his AI company | TechCrunch
Nick Frosst, the co-founder of $5.5 billion Canadian AI startup Cohere, has been a musician his whole life. He told…
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Y Combinator expanding to four cohorts a year in 2025 | TechCrunch
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four…
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Media & Entertainment
Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream | TechCrunch
Vinyls are back in vogue and some people are building their CD collections back up in anticipation that they’ll also…
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adhd
Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headband | TechCrunch
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects more than 366 million adults globally, according to a 2020 study, but beyond medicating…
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Carta
Startups are getting fined, or sometimes banned, by individual states | TechCrunch
In 2022, Carta’s business license was revoked in Illinois for failing to pay franchise tax, a tax on national corporations…
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Media & Entertainment
DubClub wants amateur sports bettors to win more | TechCrunch
The American sports betting market produced $10.9 billion in revenue in 2023 for casinos, sportsbooks and iGaming, according to the…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Investors are already valuing OpenAI at over $100B on the secondaries market | TechCrunch
OpenAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at an eye-popping $100 billion-plus valuation, sources told The…
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NEA quietly reenters the secondaries market | TechCrunch
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is getting back into the secondaries game. The Silicon Valley-based VC raised more than $468 million…
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AI
VCs are so eager for AI startups, they're buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices | TechCrunch
VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the…
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founders
Rippling’s Parker Conrad says founders should ‘go all the way to the ground’ to run their companies | TechCrunch
HR startup Rippling has grown into a company valued at $13.5 billion with more than 3,200 employees. Despite that size,…
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