Seksom Suriyapa was apparently destined to land with a risk company. A graduate of Stanford Law, he worked at two blue-chip investment banks before joining cybersecurity firm McAfee as a senior executive in corporate development, later working six years at HR software company SuccessFactors, and ending up at Twitter in 2018, where he was in … Read more
In a few weeks, Rivian will begin shipping its first R1T Pickup and R1S SUV “Launch Edition” models to consumers. If you’ve considered pre-ordering any of the vehicles, you had to base your decision on internal estimates by the company. No longer. The Environmental Protection Agency released their official range guidelines after testing both the … Read more
Tents line a street in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The Compassion Seattle electoral initiative, which aimed to revise the city’s policy towards its homeless population, will not be eligible for election in the city’s November elections, a judge on the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled Friday. Earlier this week, supporters of … Read more
Kalepa, a New York-based insurance platform, has raised a $ 14 million Series A financing round led by Inspired Capital with the participation of former investor IA Ventures. Gokul Rajaram from Doordash, Coinbase and formerly from Google, Jackie Reses, formerly from Square, and Henry Ward from Carta also took part. The startup founded by Paul … Read more
The wearable market as a whole grew 5.6 percent in the last quarter, largely due to the sale of smartwatches at the expense of basebands, according to research company Canalys. The push was driven by Apple, which continues to dominate the market with its watch models. As Canalys noted, smartwatch sales took over the base … Read more
Solar panels. (Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash) Eager investors keep coming. It is the Amazon employee who see the company’s share price rise steadily; the ex-venture capitalist looking to make big financial returns in a new hip sector; Parents or parents-to-be who panic about leaving their children with an earth ravaged by … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday September 2, 2021. TechCrunch is largely retired tomorrow thanks to a Pan-Yahoo corporate hiatus. But don’t worry, all systems will continue to work as … Read more
In 2018, Disney fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn over tweets he wrote between 2008 and 2012. While the company later hired Gunn, he’s just one of many people for whom an old social media post came back to haunt him. In the past few years, some Twitter users have turned to tools … Read more
Robbie Cape, former CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year 2019 at the GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) 98point6 CEO Robbie Cape no longer works at the heavily funded virtual health company he co-founded in 2015, GeekWire has learned. The company confirmed on Wednesday … Read more
French startup Cajoo is raising some cash to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive grocery supplier category. Interestingly, the main investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. Headline (formerly e.ventures) is also participating in the round, as are the existing investors Frst and XAnge. Carrefour’s investment is not just … Read more