Published on: 2025-05-12 07:52:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, I have watched the rise, fall, near misses, and rise again of the company and its billionaire leader. Musk, known for his willingness to take risks, has admitted how close the company came to filing for bankruptcy before turning it all around. It was that “us versus them
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 02:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we jump into the news, just a quick bit of housekeeping. I’m putting “This week’s wheels” on hiatus for a few weeks as I get into more EVs, hybrids, e-bikes, and robotaxis. Stay tuned! A little bird Image Credits:Bryce Durbin Waymo reached a deal with the San Francisco Airport Commission — and by extension the city — to u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 06:47:05
Germany’s Munich Re has signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6 billion, the firms announced on Thursday. Founded in 2016, Palo Alto-based Next Insurance is focused on providing insurance to small-to-medium-sized businesses. It was last valued at $2.5 billion in late 2023 when it raised $265 million. Next Insurance’s backers include Group 11, Allstate, Allianz X, Battery Ventures, Capital G, Redpoint Ventures, Nationwide, Amex Ventures, Ribbit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 23:00:00
Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops and refines its AI models for different use cases and expands into new markets. AI has many different applications — one of which is generating decks for business presentations, as it turns out. Off-the-shelf models tend to be not very good at this because they don’t understand industry-specific language and jargon. That’s where Prezent’s technology comes in. Los Alto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 03:45:32
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire battery supply chain behind them. Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and European automakers flat-footed. Take graphite, for example. Every lithium-ion battery today, regardless of the chemistry, requires some or all of the anode to be made of graphite, and Chinese companies
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 06:00:00
TechCrunch All Stage (formerly Early Stage) returns to Boston on July 15, and the agenda for our tentpole East Coast founder event is almost complete. We’re excited to share this sneak peek at some of the fantastic speakers and sessions we have on tap. For builders who are just starting on their founder journey, our Foundation Stage is absolutely the place to be. We’re enlisting a stellar cast of leading investors and entrepreneurs to dig deep into founder-focused topics such as: All the Ways
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 03:00:00
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How will 2025 compare? It’s still early in the year but the number of U.S. AI companies that have raised more than $100 million is almost in double digits, and there has already been one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 08:47:04
Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-later loans to specialized neo banks to yet more payment processing systems. What opportunities remain for innovators in such a fragmented landscape? One U.K. startup, Just Move In, zoomed out and realised that the home had been overlooked by everyone in the industry. And it has now raised an $8 million Series A funding round led by Eos Ventures (a global insurtech VC) for its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 23:05:38
Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Twitter's Evan Williams, has filed to raise $400 million for its latest fund, according to a regulatory filing. The filing for Obvious Ventures V was made public with the SEC on Tuesday and indicates that it's an initial notice. The firm raised its most recent fund in 2022, when it brought in about $355 million, according to PitchBook data, short of its $400 million target. A spokesperson for the firm declined to comment. Launched in 20
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 13:48:01
In Brief Khosla Ventures, a firm known for early investments in OpenAI, is raising $3.5 billion across three funds, the Wall Street Journal reported. That target is 17% larger than the firm’s previous 2023 fund haul of $3 billion. About half of the new capital will be allocated to its ninth core venture fund. The remaining money will be divided between a $1.1 billion growth fund for later-stage startups and a $650 million seed-stage focused fund. Khosla Ventures declined to comment on its new
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