Anna Heim
The Indian startup ecosystem did not escape the fundraising woes that struck the rest of the world in the third quarter: Startups in the country raised 50% less than they did a year ago, and raised less than they did in the second quarter as well, according to...
When we first read PitchBook’s data on global venture investment in Q3, the first conclusion that my colleague Alex Wilhelm and I reached was that startups around the world wouldn’t be mistaken to expect another quarter of declines.
As usual, the numbers are nuanced: European startups were faring slightly...
Getsafe, a German-based digital insurtech startup, has acquired the German portfolio of Luko, a French insurtech startup that recently neared insolvency before agreeing to be acquired by British insurer Admiral Group in a transaction that didn’t include its German or Spanish operations.
Getsafe is now present in four countries...
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This week, we’ll dive into the results of a survey I conducted on the future of AI and...
The global venture capital market is in a slump.
There was some hope that the potential halo effect of several long-awaited tech IPOs in the United States trading well and slowing interest rate hikes could spur VCs to be freer with their checks, but venture investment trends instead dipped,...
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“Once an arena just for contrarian VCs, miltech is booming and there is an appetite for the...
The software spend squeeze is lessening, new data from Battery Ventures indicates. According to the venture capital firm’s survey of enterprise firms with 100 C-suite leaders at companies around $35 billion in annual IT spend, contract approval timelines are no longer stretching longer, and focus on cutting SaaS...
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The Perkins School for the Blind has identified over 1,400 companies that are designing and building products specifically...
“What got me out of bed every morning was China”
Morgan Beller, the co-creator of Meta’s now-defunct Libra digital currency project, revealed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 that “what got out of bed every morning was China.”
In case that wasn’t explicit enough, Beller directly referred to...
I love to read books located in cities I am about to visit. But when it comes to San Francisco and the Bay Area, I was really impressed with the wealth of choices available.
My colleague Walter Thompson confirmed this:
“I’ve lived in San Francisco for most of my adult...
