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Helloooooo, Crunchers! It’s Monday, and it’s time for untimely lovers to rejoice Valentine’s Day (it’s tomorrow, you keen lovebirds).
A number of enjoyable issues are coming down the pike right here at TC Towers: TechCrunch Disrupt is again in September, so now’s the time to seize the super-early-bird tickets at a daft low cost.
In reference to final yr’s Disrupt, we created a podcast documentary referred to as Inside Battlefield, the place we comply with among the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield hopefuls as they pitch their means by way of to the finals. It’s possible you’ll even hear a well-known voice or two in there: Haje shared a bunch of his pitch experience for the podcast!
For our Black Historical past Month entry as we speak, we suggest The Antiracist Deck, a deck of 100 playing cards with dialogue prompts and issues to consider, presenting methods for everybody to battle again towards racism in small and large methods in all points of life — at work, amongst pals, and out on this planet.
Okay, that was lots for our often fairly temporary intro, however what can we are saying, there’s quite a lot of issues taking place on this planet of TechCrunch!
A lot love out of your pleasant hosts, Christine and Haje
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Startups and VC
Highbeam, a startup that gives banking options, credit score and money move insights to e-commerce prospects, as we speak introduced that it raised $10 million in debt from TriplePoint because it appears to be like to develop the attain of its digital product portfolio, Kyle experiences.
Tesla acquired itself some high-profile criticism as security advocacy group The Daybreak Mission took its marketing campaign to ban Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system to the Tremendous Bowl, Rebecca experiences. The 30-second advert, which was broadcast to thousands and thousands of soccer followers, outlined a number of alleged vital security defects of Tesla’s FSD, the automaker’s superior driver help system.
Right here’s one other handful:
A Black YC alum explains how he raised $107M
Black entrepreneurs face a singular set of challenges, however Captain founder Demetrius Grey raised $107 million after his Y Combinator expertise.
“Individuals see the headline, ‘$107 million raised.’ What they don’t actually perceive is that it was a progressive means of constructing relationships over time that made that potential,” says Grey.
In an interview for TC+, he broke down his fundraising technique and shared a number of ways for connecting with buyers.
“You gotta get social; you gotta get out in entrance of individuals and begin constructing relationships.”
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Large Tech Inc.
Aisha reported as we speak that extra job cuts are on the best way for Meta. She notes these new potential layoffs comply with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s earnings name with analysts earlier this month the place the corporate mentioned it plans to proceed to comprise prices, promising a “yr of effectivity.” Zuckerberg famous that Meta could be flattening its group construction and “eradicating some layers in center administration to make choices sooner.”
Whether or not you’re a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs fan (yay!) or a Philadelphia Eagles fan (sorry), there was an entire crop of recent commercials from final evening’s Tremendous Bowl to speak about. Lauren has your have a look at the entire cool film trailers (Spoiler: Michael Keaton returns as Batman), whereas Amanda takes us by way of the tech business commercials, the place fewer crypto commercials had been noticeable. Oh, and for those who didn’t catch the Tremendous Bowl Rakuten industrial with Alicia Silverstone reprising her function from “Clueless,” right here it’s.
It’s Monday, so right here’s 5 extra for you:
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