Alex Wilhelm
But early-stage startups could face the most headwinds
If you read the startup press, you might think that everyone in tech is still nursing a stiff hangover from the zenith of the 2021 boom. While there is much talk of cutting spending, conserving capital, trimming staff and hunkering down,...
Let us Embark on this latest fiasco
It appears that we have yet another SPAC meltdown on our hands. Embark, a maker of autonomous trucking software, has laid off most of its staff, intends to use its remaining employees to wind down its operations, and is working with its...
Are you tired of bad news for startups? Bored of the layoffs, budget cuts, and sermons from folks who suddenly discovered the efficiency gospel?
Well, how about some good news? I have some for you: Software valuations staged a modest comeback this year.
When we refer to startups, we generally...
There's gold in all those nontech industries!
While the venture market continues to digest a new reality, the TechCrunch+ crew has been paying very close attention to software earnings. Why are we tracking earning results for Q4 2022 in March 2023? Because lots of software companies have fiscal calendars...
Shifting investor priorities, more expensive cash and a dearth of the large deals that were so common during the last startup boom could leave many late-stage web3 companies short on cash. And the clock is ticking.
People are already memeing that venture capitalists have pivoted from crypto to AI,...
The question is whether we should care
Shares of Adobe sold off following last week’s news that the United States government is “getting ready to file suit to block the $20 billion Adobe-Figma deal announced last year on the grounds it is anti-competitive,” though not as sharply as when...
Concerns about high burn rates among tech startups are not new; they did not spring into being suddenly in the fourth quarter of 2021, the final three-month period of the most recent startup boom.
If you rewind the clock to 2014, investors were worried about tech startups losing too...
Startups hoping to raise a nine-figure round in the future had best temper their ambition; venture funding events worth $100 million or more are going extinct — quickly.
A few years back, nine-figure venture funding events were common. So much so that during my Crunchbase News days, we started...
Later today Coinbase, the American crypto giant will report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 results. Given continued turbulence in the cryptocurrency market, and a rough doubling in the value of Coinbase’s stock since the December timeframe, TechCrunch has long awaited this particular set of data.
While Coinbase is no...
How hard is it to do things? Often it turns out to be pretty hard.
There’s an infamous Hacker News thread about Dropbox that crops up whenever there’s a conversation about how difficult it would be to build a replacement for a well-known service. The forum note, which you...
