Published on: 2025-06-03 17:13:44
In Brief DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s venture fund WndrCo co-led a $15.5 million Series A round for Creatify, an AI video ad platform. Creatify’s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing — AdMax analyzes high-performing social video campaigns on apps like TikTok and Instagram to shape its output. Tech industry titans have been bullish on AI advertising. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently spoke about
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 21:20:00
Mark your calendars: June 18 just became a can’t-miss event. We’re thrilled that Ali Partovi and Russell Kaplan will be joining us for what’s shaping up to be a fantastic night of ideas and conversation in the heart of Silicon Valley at our next StrictlyVC evening, taking place in Menlo Park. Partovi, the longtime investor and former operator who’s making serious waves with Neo, will take the stage to discuss his ambitious mission that’s giving Y Combinator a run for its money. Neo isn’t just a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 16:00:00
There are just 48 hours left to save up to $900 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and get 90% off the second. After May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, Early Bird pricing vanishes — along with your best chance to join 10,000 of tech’s most forward-thinking minds for less. But forget the math for a moment. Let’s talk about what you actually get. From October 27–29, Moscone West in San Francisco transforms into a live-wire campus — a front-row seat to innovation. It’s high energy, yes — but als
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 01:59:43
Digg, the Web 2.0-era link aggregator that’s now being given a second chance at life, is open to buying Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket. On Thursday, Mozilla announced it would shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way people use the web has evolved, and it needed to focus on new areas of development. Shortly after, Kevin Rose, Digg’s original owner, now co-founder of the new Digg alongside Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on X that his company would be interested in acquiring
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 21:30:00
Enchant is launching a new zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups, with applications now open for its three-month program. The accelerator is dedicated to early-stage teams at the crossroads of gaming and artificial intelligence. Founded by veterans of Sony, Supercell, EA, Ubisoft and Playrix, the fully remote program gives founders hands-on product sprints, weekly one-on-one sessions with industry leaders and direct access to a global investor network — while letting every startup
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 21:15:00
AI is evolving fast, and access to valuable insights and powerful networking shouldn’t be reserved for those who pay top dollar. We’re rolling back TechCrunch Sessions: AI ticket prices! Save up to $300 on your pass, and get an extra 50% off when you bring a plus-one. Learn from the brightest minds in AI and forge meaningful connections — while locking in the biggest savings before the doors open on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Whether you’re pioneering, building, funding, or just
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 05:30:00
In the U.S., a number of startups aim to be the corporate spend manager of choice for small and large businesses. Brex, Ramp, and Mercury are among those companies, just to name a few. Moving north of the border to Canada, the options are fewer, but growing. Keep is a startup that has built a financial platform specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). On Tuesday, it announced a total of $23 million in equity funding, a $50 million credit facility, and a $3 million ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:00:00
South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus on backing founders of color. Zach Ellis, the firm’s founder and managing director, spoke to TechCrunch about his final close. He said the fund is general and will invest in fo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 05:42:09
We’re excited to announce a big surprise for the AI community — TechCrunch Sessions: AI is getting a limited-time discount to broaden the number of people who can attend and learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry. For just $292, you can get a general admission ticket — plus a 50% discount on a second — to attend our flagship AI-centric event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5. We’re looking for everyone from those working in the industry to founders, academics, AI die-ha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 09:40:38
Mercury co-founder and CEO Immad Akhund today announced the launch of a $26 million fund to back early-stage startups, a move that formalizes his extensive history of angel investing. Axios first reported in February. Akhund has been an active angel investor since 2016, backing over 350 startups at their earliest stages. His portfolio includes companies such as Airtable, Applied Intuition, Decagon, Gecko Robotics, Linear and Substack, among others. “I love supporting entrepreneurs – whether it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 02:01:00
We’re thrilled to announce that Ellen Chisa, partner at Boldstart Ventures, will be joining us at TechCrunch All Stage 2025 for an energizing conversation about investing in enterprise startups from day one. She’s one of the standout voices shaping this year’s lineup of founders, funders, and operators gathering July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, and you won’t want to miss what she brings to the table. All Stage is where startup builders get real answers to real questions — from how to rai
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 02:52:16
Being a founder often feels like you’re building the plane midflight. You’re juggling fundraising, product-market fit, marketing strategy, hiring — while quietly wondering if you’re even doing it right. TechCrunch AllStage 2025, which is happening on July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is built to answer those questions. Whether you’re pitching VCs, recruiting a killer team, or trying to make sense of your startup’s finances (and your own), All Stage offers actionable insights from peo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 05:49:39
Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company’s first-quarter earnings report. His resignation will go into effect June 1. He will leave the board August 31. The company said in the filing that his resignation f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 17:00:38
Why you should join Ciro Ciro is building AI agents for sales prospecting. Today, founders and sales reps spend 30%+ of their time manually searching, qualifying, and engaging leads. Ciro makes prospecting on platforms like LinkedIn 10x easier by automatically scanning profiles, qualifying them, and enriching them. Ciro is a tight-knit team of engineers, sales execs, and product managers with experience from Meta, Stanford, Google and Bain & Co. Two of the founders served as VPs of Sales at hi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 21:02:15
Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a plot for a movie. But it really happened. They went from broke, life savings spent, and in debt $15,000 apiece on credit cards — Dhawan was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to $100,000 of revenue in five days. And that led to a $2.8 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s new Speedrun program, with other backers piling in like Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin, ChapterOne, Founders Inc.
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Make your first $$ online, with Reddit. Postonreddit is the ultimate Reddit post scheduler for SaaS founders and startups. Easily automate Reddit posts, analyze performance, and grow your audience. Join hundreds of makers and startups using Reddit to make their first online revenue.
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Business Founders Are Less Valuable Than They Think April 26, 2025 If you know me, you know I love tech, business and startups. Thus, I always find a way to get involved in the startup community. Over the years, there is one person I tend to meet more often than not in gatherings. It is the non-technical guy who wants to build a tech startup. The business founder. Erik from TV show Sillicon Valley. Once they know I’m a software engineer and we get into the specifics of their projects (I ask
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 01:40:00
We’re thrilled to announce that Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder and CEO of Aetherflux, will be joining us for a rare, intimate fireside chat as part of TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening series on June 18 on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. As with all of our StrictlyVC evenings, the event will feature just a handful of select conversations — and Bhatt’s will be one you won’t want to miss. If you’ve followed the transformation of retail investing over the last decade, you’ve seen Bh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 00:00:00
StrictlyVC is turning up the heat in 2025 — and we’re going international! First stop: Athens, May 8. Get ready for sharp, unfiltered conversations onstage — and your chance to jump into the dialogue. This isn’t just an event; it’s a forum where every attendee has a voice with some of Europe’s most influential tech and VC leaders at the helm. Join the conversation — register now to be part of this can’t-miss event. Inside the agenda: StrictlyVC Greece lineup + big names in tech We’re excited
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Today’s the day! The application to speak at TechCrunch All Stage closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT — this is your final chance to share real-world insights with 1,200+ startup founders and VCs attending the event. Whether you’ve built or backed startups, battled bottlenecks, or cracked the code on growth, the stage is yours. TC All Stage lands in Boston on July 15, and we’re giving the mic to those who’ve lived the scaling grind. Step-by-step: What to expect Make your voice count. Your experie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 13:58:57
The ultimate founder summit returns — now bigger than ever! Formerly TechCrunch Early Stage, TC All Stage is bringing together founders and VCs from every stage, not just early stage. We’re thrilled to unveil the full breakout session lineup at TC All Stage. Packed with scaling pioneers and top-tier VCs, these sessions are designed for founders and startups at every stage — covering everything from fundraising strategies to scaling operations. Join 1,200+ founders and VCs on July 15 in Boston t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 07:00:00
StrictlyVC, the boutique brand powered by TechCrunch and known for evening events that invite headliners into smaller rooms to connect with live audiences, is headed back to London on May 13 — and its latest speaker lineup is one of its strongest yet. Joining the stage is TS Anil, CEO of Monzo Bank, the digital banking powerhouse that has helped reshape the UK’s financial landscape. Known for his global leadership background and steady hand at the helm of one of Europe’s most prominent fintechs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 12:53:35
In Brief Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, it’s more than the $3 billion growth fund the firm was said to be raising, according to reports in February. Founders Fund is so big and successful that it can always raise an oversubscribed f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 17:00:00
The application to speak at TechCrunch All Stage closes this Friday, April 18 — don’t miss your chance to share hard-won insights with 1,200+ startup founders and VCs. If you’ve been in the trenches and cracked tough growth problems, now’s the time to step up and share your scaling strategies onstage at TC All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston. Ready to make your mark? Use your experience to guide the next wave of startups. Apply now, and you could land a spot in our Audience Choice round — wh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 17:53:35
In Brief Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, it’s more than the $3 billion growth fund the firm was said to be raising, according to reports in February. Founder’s Fund is so big and successful that it can always raise an oversubscribed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 12:55:23
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, holds hundred dollar bills as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm run by billionaire Peter Thiel, has closed a $4.6 billion late-stage venture fund, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund, Founders Fund Growth III, includes capital from 270 investors, the fil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 21:16:07
hey fam, i'm at a crossroads where i'm considering quitting my startup and taking a job or alternate paths and wanted y'alls opinion. i've been working on a startup for the past 24 months with my cofounder - i'm technical and she's mostly focused on business side (with basic frontend skills). we got funded roughly 18 months ago for an idea i came up with, was excited about, and found some traction. since then we pivoted away from it. we've roughly pivoted almost every month to something new. t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 19:30:00
In Brief Symphonic Capital announced today in a blog post that it raised $13.5 million for its inaugural fund to invest in early-stage companies. Sydney Thomas launched the firm in 2022 after leaving Charles Hudson’s Precursor Ventures, where she was the first hire. Thomas said her fund will focus on founders outside of the Bay who are building in healthcare and financial services. Check sizes will be around $250,000. In the blog post, the firm wrote that “everyone should have access to relia
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 05:30:00
In Brief Symphonic Capital announced today in a blog post that it raised $13.5 million for its inaugural fund to invest in early-stage companies. Sydney Thomas launched the firm in 2022 after leaving Charles Hudson’s Percursor Ventures, where she was the first hire. Thomas said her fund will focus on founders outside of the Bay who are building in health care and financial services. Check sizes will be around $250,000. In the blog post, the firm wrote that “everyone should have access to reli
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 04:00:00
The number of “operator VCs” — former founders turned VCs — in Europe in recent years. This is common in the U.S., where the majority of VCs are former founders. The reverse is true in Europe, where most come from banking or finance. Recent examples in Europe include Wise founder Taavet Hinrikus, Glovo founder Oscar Pierre (Yellow Fund), and Pitch founder Christian Reber. After exiting MuleSoft to Salesforce in 2018 for a cool $6.5 billion, founder Ross Mason set up DIG Ventures initially as a
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