More contributions from this contributor Factories don’t die taking your order and other hardware startups Cooperation with a Chinese factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition China’s e-commerce and The industrial ecosystem is as different from the western world as its culture. It took the country decades to earn its reputation as the world’s factory, but it now … Read more
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s inspired by what the Exchange column explores on weekdays, but it’s free and made for your weekend reading. Would you like it in your inbox every Saturday? Login here. Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice week. I turned 32 … Read more
As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis developed a successful open source graphics program, GIMP, which caught the attention of Google. The duo eventually joined Google and even received personal praise from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Kimball and Mattis quickly became known within the company and then decided to leave everything … Read more
Sequoias Mike Vernal wore many hats. He was VP of Product and Engineering at Facebook for eight years before moving into investing. His portfolio includes Houseparty, Threads, Canvas, Citizen, PicsArt and more, and he continues to invest in companies across a wide range of stages and industries including consumers, corporate, marketplaces, fintech and more. Vernal … Read more
Startups, the so-called Deep tech often has a hard time raising capital for a variety of reasons. At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, two experienced investors spoke on the subject and advised startups on a challenging fundraising path. Pae Wu and Garrett Winther are both partners at SOSV and lead the fund’s programs … Read more
GM is rolling out three major upgrades, including automatic lane changing and towing assistance, to its Super Cruise hands-free driver assistance system and making it available in six vehicles, including the all-new 2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup. While GM’s Super Cruise has steadily improved since its launch in 2017, it has been limited to its … Read more
Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car project that is now a separate business unit of Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the eastern US in the steel city. The company will initially hire about a dozen engineers, a source familiar with the move told TechCrunch, and they will be based in Google’s existing offices in the … 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 Extra Crunch for July 21st, 2021. It was a good day for crypto fans as major coins bounced back a bit from their recent lows. However, Bitcoin and … Read more
Expense management has long been a problem for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and analyzing money spending on behalf of a company is just too bogged down in legacy software that is ill-equipped for more modern needs. Today a UK startup developing solutions to bring the process into the 21st century announced a … Read more
In May, Path Robotics announced a Series B for $ 56 million. It was a sizeable increase in the robotics rounds. But the Columbus, Ohio-based startup is already back, launching a “preventive” Series C just two and a half months later. And it’s a huge thing. The company has raised $ 100 million under the … Read more