More

    Technology

    First Citizens to acquire failed Silicon Valley Bank

    First Citizens BankShares has agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank, the California lender that served as lifeblood of thousands of startups before its collapse...

    The tide has shifted for solo GPs

    Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get...

    Just 7 days until the TC Early Stage early bird flies away

    Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing...

    Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1

    Twitter has picked April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as April 1, to start removing legacy blue checkmarks from the platform. Despite the significance of the...

    Ex-Flipkart exec’s Flash app wants to be an inbox for your e-commerce needs

    Email inboxes are tricky tools because over time they become hard to manage and users have to spend a lot of time searching for...

    “Graceful way out”: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding

    A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel....

    Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom

    It’s no secret — even if it hasn’t...

    Emerging managers hope the new SVB offers the same support to new VCs

    Before it crashed, Silicon Valley Bank was known to many startups and venture firms as the place to park their money or take out...

    OpenAI unleashes GPT-4, SVB files for bankruptcy, and a PE firm acquires Pornhub

    Welcome to Week in Review, folks, TechCrunch’s regular recap of the week in tech. GPT-4, OpenAI’s text- and image-understanding AI, might’ve dominated the headlines...

    The Justice Department is investigating TikTok over journalist spying incident

    The Biden administration has recently ramped up pressure on TikTok over national security concerns stemming from its ties to China, and apparently the Justice...

    Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe

    PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent...

    IT-as-a-Service startup Deeploi raises €3M

    Deeploi, a Germany-based startup that is building an IT-as-a-Service platform, today announced that it has raised a €3 million seed funding round led by...

    Medwing, a recruitment marketplace for Europe’s healthcare workforce, raises $47M

    Medwing, a European startup building a recruitment marketplace for healthcare workers, has raised €44 million ($47 million) in a Series C round of funding. Founded...

    MENA VC Flat6Labs’ new fund to back startups in East, West Africa

    Flat6Labs is amongst the most active VCs in Africa, having invested in over a hundred startups to date, across the Middle East and North...

    Silicon Valley’s surreal weekend | TechCrunch

    As Silicon Valley Bank collapsed before our eyes on Thursday, a founder told me that the world felt like it did when COVID-19 first...

    A 10-step playbook for founders with Silicon Valley Bank accounts

    Brett Adcock is the founder of Figure, an AI robotics company building a general-purpose humanoid robot. Previously, he founded Archer Aviation, an urban air...