As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful

Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs.Ā  Criticism from former members of its d

TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art

TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely e

Terminus raises $90M to grow its B2B marketing platform, now valued at around $400M

Sales and marketing are often considered a single category on a business plan, but ironically, when it comes to building apps and services to help with them, they usually become separate entities, and

Rattle raises $2.8M from Lightspeed and Sequoia to modernize enterprise sales stack

Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that donā€™t play well with one another. This is a problem, as

Indy-based High Alpha Capital launches new $110M fund

We know that a lot of elements go into the formation of a startup ecosystem. When your city is outside of the major coastal tech centers, it takes a deliberate effort to get such a system off the grou

Four investors explain why AI ethics can’t be an afterthought

Some onus lies on investors to make sure these new technologies are being built by founders with ethics in mind.

How our SaaS startup improved net revenue retention by more than 30 points in two quarters

Net revenue retention is the most underrated metric out there. The greater the NRR, the quicker companies can scale. Simply put: the power of compound math.

Daily Crunch: Peloton share price falls 14% after product recall and data breach; CEO apologizes

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Thank you, Chrome team

Since Chrome came out back in 2008, it’s been a constant companion in my life. In fact, Chrome’s launch is how I helped get the startup I worked for at the time onto TechCrunch for the fir

Atlanta’s sundry startups join in global VC funding boom

With around $3 billion invested in the first half of 2021, already around a 50% gain on 2020ā€™s full-year figures, itā€™s clear Atlanta is seeing an unprecedented wave of venture investment.

How investors are valuing the pandemic

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Itā€™s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. W

Foundry is shutting down in slow motion

The Equity crew is highlighting deals of the week, YC's new call for startups, Foundry Group's exit, and venture capital's year of transition.

GitHub adds 21 new partners to its free Student Developer Pack

For a few years now, GitHub has been running a program that gives students around the world free access to GitHub Pro and various free and discounted services from other partners as part of its GitHub

Congressional Republican threats to Caltrain funding could cripple Bay Area’s growth

For $2 billion, Caltrain electrification would wire the line between San Francisco and San Jose and buy new high-performance electric trains, reducing local travel time by twenty minutes, and yet, the

With EmoWatch your Apple Watch knows if you are :) or :(

Siri is good for a lot of things, but she generally doesn't care much whether you sound your usual perky self. Launching today is EmoWatch, a new app for your Apple Watch that will help you track your

Art Meets Tech In Former Mailbox Designer’s New Textile Project Bulan

Sometimes when life seems too pre-ordained, you drop everything and flee in the opposite direction. That’s what designer Elle Luna did when her picture perfect career at Ideo stopped resonating

Tin Terminator Bear, not creepy at all

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/terminexbear.jpg" />This cuddly destroyer of mankind from <a href="http://www.bearbrick.com/index.html">Be@rBrick</a> features light-up e

Review: Razer Piranha headset

I’m new to the video review thing, so forgive me if the thing above is too long by half, which I’m pretty sure it is. I’ve included a traditional text review as well, in case you don

Mini-Review: Das Keyboard

Originally the high-end keyboard roundup was just three keyboards, but Das Keyboard caught wind of it and wanted to throw their famously blank keyboard into the mix. The one I got my hands on is actua
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