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Trucks VC launches $70 million fund to find next big batch of transportation startups
Trucks Venture Capital co-founder Reilly Brennan has spent over a decade scouting for—and investing in—entrepreneurs building the future of transportation, including autonomous vehicle technology, electric air…
Despite VCs investing $75 billion in the fourth quarter, it’s still tough for startups to raise money, data shows
After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it looks like VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a…
Founded in late 2022, Powerset is an investment program with a simple premise: What if the best investors aren’t venture capitalists, but other founders, who write…
For years, Vyas Sekar would call Muckai Girish, an old friend from undergrad, to talk about potential startup ideas and get Girish’s opinion. The two usually…
For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani have traded stories — and commiserated — about the pain points they faced in their respective engineering…
Alex Dewespartner in 20 VCthe long awaited has just been released State of the French tech ecosystem report. This is a nice follow-up to Atomico’s State…
Silicon Valley so dominant again, its startups gobble up more than half of US VC funding in 2024
For all the chatter about San Francisco’s decline, data repeatedly shows that the Bay Area, including the city itself, is still the best place for venture-backed…
After more than two years—and nearly 100 episodes—as the host of TechCrunch’s recently concluded podcast, I’ve learned a lot about how founders approach building their startups.…
The white cane for the 21st century. While many technology companies are increasingly working to make technology more accessible to the blind and visually impaired, canes…
Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly antiquated computing systems: consider the Perseverance rover running on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running iMacs in the…