Miranda Halpern
Barely two weeks into the year, the 2024 startup news machine is running at full clip. A quick scan of TechCrunch headlines reveals venture funds adding new capital, and startups that have either raised lots of money or are in the process of closing deals to raise lots of...
It’s round two of our Pub Quiz!
If you didn’t do too well on our first one, no worries — New Year’s Eve is around the corner, so we’ve created a second game to help you kick off the night. Good luck, and Happy New Year!
(P.S: Remember to click the...
From the collapse and rebirth of Silicon Valley Bank to the indictment of Sam Bankman-Fried — it’s safe to say that this has been a long year. Emotionally, at least. That’s why the team here at TechCrunch thought it would be fun to have an end-of-year pub quiz testing...
Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her 2013 TechCrunch column? Only 39. And at the time, nobody could have guessed that more than a thousand private tech companies would eventually reach the coveted $1 billion valuation...
He said "I don't remember" 73 times over the 3 days he took the stand
Clarity is a virtue. To speak plainly is divine. Not everyone, however, enjoys limpid communication (especially when they’re under oath).
One such person is Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX. In his...
The global venture capital market failed to turn the corner in the third quarter of 2023, instead racking up another quarter’s worth of declines in most parts of the world.
The data, however, can become a little bit abstract in numerical form. So, today, the TechCrunch+ team has charted...
When looking at how TechCrunch+ covered venture in 2022, we didn’t see a lot of positive news. We saw layoffs, demands for growth at all costs, VCs sitting on mountains of cash and low funding for minority groups — again. While some of these things may seem contradictory,...
In 2022, the crypto community rose to new heights — and then it crashed. We noted this as early as June 2022, before the FTX fiasco (which we’re using as the catchall term for the crash, alleged fraud, bankruptcy, congressional hearing, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s arrest in the Bahamas, the...
Climate became an increasingly popular topic in 2021, perhaps best showcased in pieces like this interview with Eric Dean Wilson on why air conditioning, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, is killing the 21st, which we featured in our Best of TechCrunch 2021 list. But...
TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. Here are a few related articles we’ve run in recent weeks:
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(TechCrunch+) Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth: To uncover some insights into...