Alex Wilhelm
News that fintech startup Plaid hired a CFO has kicked off a round of “when will it go public” chatter. The answer is not soon, something that we can infer from the fact that it only just hired a CFO. Still, hiring C-suite financial talent is a known...
The state of the global venture capital market leaves much to be desired, and the United States hasn’t escaped the slowdown: PitchBook and the NVCA both reported that the “third quarter of 2023 nearly saw the lowest overall venture deal value in six years and the lowest deal...
Online publishing platform Medium has led a bit of a tumultuous life. Seeking to thread the needle as it tried to be both a publisher and a writing platform, the company tried several different business models (allowing individual publications on its platform to offer paywalls, building its own...
In 2023, the EV market is no longer about startups. Instead, the race to shift to electric vehicles has morphed into a competition between the world’s largest automotive companies and a host of smaller rivals that have gone public. The latter are often deeply unprofitable.
The Exchange explores startups,...
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is back in the news. The company recently offered to buy back its stock from its employees, but the issue is, it’s valuing itself at around $223 billion, which is about 26% less than the $300 billion at which it previously offered...
News that Blue Apron is selling itself to Wonder Group — Marc Lore’s latest — for around $100 million marks the end of the former startup’s life as a public company.
Blue Apron raised a $135 million Series D back in 2015 for its meal kit business before going...
What products and services will benefit the most from recent developments in AI technology? We’re keeping close tabs on the question, and we’re curious if startups will be able to best lever AI improvements or if cloud platforms are the best positioned. Or maybe it’ll be the companies...
What we're looking for in the upcoming tech earnings cycle
A lot of the world is busy digesting Twitter being rebranded to “X,” but more serious things are happening in the world of tech: Worldcoin is here!
I kid. What actually matters today is that we are embarking on another...
The inability or unwillingness of many venture-backed startups to go public is starting to sting.
Backers of venture funds are increasingly leery about putting more capital to work in the startup landscape without getting some of their prior cash back; but with IPOs not expected to pick up for...
It’s been so long since TechCrunch+ has had the pleasure of covering an IPO from S-1 to first-day trading that we’ve nearly forgotten how to do it. Shaking off the cobwebs, let’s talk about how Cava’s debut went on Thursday.
After setting an initial IPO price range of $17...
