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From Skims to Stripe, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year | TechCrunch
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we settle in…
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Mechanical Orchard, led by ex-Pivotal CEO, scores $50M round led by Alphabet's GV | TechCrunch
Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be…
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Napkin turns text into visuals with a bit of generative AI | TechCrunch
We all have ideas, but effectively communicating them and winning people over is no easy feat. So how can we…
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Amazon upgrades its AI image generator | TechCrunch
Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock…
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UK's Riverlane scores $75M to correct quantum errors | TechCrunch
Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real. Riverlane,…
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Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M | TechCrunch
Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now…
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38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here's the full list | TechCrunch
Despite the tight venture capital market, unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and…
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AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia | TechCrunch
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it has…
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Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues | TechCrunch
When Mosa Meat served up a first-of-its-kind, lab-grown hamburger in 2013, it cost over $300,000. Eleven years later, around 200…
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Exclusive: Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders | TechCrunch
The humble garage is so steeped in Silicon Valley lore it’s almost cliché. Yet that’s exactly how Caleb Boyd and…
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