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Berkeley Yeast, S2G dish on the future of beer, meat and more at TC Disrupt 2023

In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Achieving that goal will require changing … Continue reading

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SEC ends investigation into Better.com, which is bleeding cash ahead of planned SPAC vote

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it does not intend to recommend an enforcement action against digital mortgage lender Better.com. The pronouncement comes after an investigation on the part of the SEC to determine if violations of federal … Continue reading

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AI chip startup Tenstorrent lands $100M investment from Hyundai and Samsung

The appetite for hardware to train AI models is voracious. AI chips are forecast to account for up to 20% of the $450 billion total semiconductor market by 2025, according to McKinsey. And Insight Partners, the VC firm, projects that … Continue reading

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Amazon Music teams up with Bandsintown to let fans shop merch from popular artists

Amazon Music announced a new merch integration with concert discovery platform Bandsintown to allow more than 590,000 artists to promote their merchandise on the Bandsintown website and app. Previously, artists could only link their Shopify store. The new merchandise featured … Continue reading

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TechCrunch+ Roundup: How pitch decks fail, inside the AI hype cycle, budgeting for a downturn

When I’m dining out in unfamiliar territory, I’ll usually find a restaurant on the beaten path — if a place has no customers, it makes me leery. Tech investors have similar appetites when it comes to follow-on investment, writes Champ … Continue reading

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Nikola CEO steps down, replaced by chairman

EV truck maker Nikola Corp said Friday that president CEO Michael Lohscheller is leaving the top executive positions due to a family health issue. He will be replaced by board chairman Steve Girsky, a former GM board member and the … Continue reading

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Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with with A/B testing

Spotify is introducing a new commercial product for software development teams called “Confidence,” which is based on its homegrown experimentation platform. Confidence is designed to make it easy for teams to set up, run, coordinate, and analyze their own user … Continue reading

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Last week to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

A big heads-up and a hearty shoutout to all you savvy startup shoppers, budget-minded founders and tech enthusiasts who love to hang on to your money. You have just one week left to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt. Beat … Continue reading

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Even as cloud growth continues to slow, market remains robust in Q2 at $65B

Cloud growth has been slowing for a number of reasons this year. Some of it has to do with macroeconomic headwinds causing customers to look to cut their cloud bills, some of it with a maturing market, which comes with … Continue reading

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Pitch Deck Teardown: SquadTrip’s $1.5M pre-seed deck

For our 60th (yes, there’s 60 of them now!) pitch deck teardown, we’re taking a closer look at a $1.5 million pre-seed round and the deck that helped raise it. Tulsa-based startup SquadTrip tells me it raised its first institutional … Continue reading

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