Alex Wilhelm
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Happy Saturday! A few notes from the house before we get to work. TechCrunch’s new crypto-focused podcast Chain Reaction launched this week,...
The smaller European service projects growth on the back of B2B partnerships
In an expected move, European music streaming company Deezer announced plans yesterday to go public via a French SPAC.
The deal values the company at a pre-money equity valuation of €1.05 billion and at €1.08 billion in enterprise...
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The move by Elon Musk to try and buy Twitter has proved polarizing. Not that we should be surprised; mega-deals are always...
Good morning from the West Coast! Today is TechCrunch: Early Stage, which means that I should be doing last-minute prep for my sessions. But instead, we’re going to talk about Elon Musk, who made an unsolicited bid for Twitter that is naturally taking the technology and business media...
Also: Why edtech is a historically weak investment compared to other sectors
Good morning! I am writing to you in the minutes before I have to pack up my writing and podcasting setups so that I can catch a few planes to San Francisco for Early Stage. (I’m moderating...
Deel, Firstbase show that supporting remote workers is big business
If you rewind the clock to February of this year, Deel, a startup that helps customers hire in other countries, announced that it had built the ability to pay workers in crypto. Regardless of your view on the financial...
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.
Technology news was entertaining this week, if nothing else. The fact that we started the week learning that Elon Musk had bought...
Unicorn births are down, exits are down, and nine-figure rounds are taking on water
The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data.
But despite the fact...
The venture capital market could be seeing a shift in power dynamics away from founders and more toward investors, data indicates.
The information, collected by DocSend, a service that founders often use to send information about their startups to investors, indicates that after a hot start in the year,...
Late-stage SaaS startups may be in the most trouble when it comes to changing valuation marks among technology companies, new data indicates.
A report from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) exploring first-quarter software startup trends details that late-stage SaaS valuations in the United States scaled the most rapidly in 2021,...
