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Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike

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As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric bike movement. The common refrain, after all, is that e-bikes aren’t real bikes. However, the six-time Olympic gold medalist has done exactly that, investing in a fledgling U.K. startup that […]

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Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally)

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If you’ve used ChatGPT Search or Perplexity you know that being able to search the web and get citations inline greatly improves these AI chatbots. Results are better when they involve timely information, and web search may reduce so-called hallucinations (i.e. when a generative AI outputs incorrect information). That’s why French startup Linkup is building

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Aerospace Corp’s CEO talks literal moonshots and Space Agenda 2025

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At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco,  President and CEO of the Aerospace Corporation Steve Isakowitz and Agency Chief Technologist at NASA A.C. Charanya Charania took the stage to discuss a literal moonshot: how to build a thriving lunar ecosystem. Today on Equity, we’re taking you behind the scenes of TechCrunch Disrupt once again,

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Alloy Women’s Health is making menopausal care accessible

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This week on found, Dom and Becca are talking with the co-founders of Alloy Women’s Health. The startup just closed a new funding round to expand its mission of fixing menopause care. Alloy founders, Monica Molenaar and Anne Fulenwider, discussed raising capital in a competitive health tech landscape, their choice to bypass traditional insurance models,

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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock

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Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well. Thanks to The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), we can see the total compensation that defense tech startup Anduril, valued at $14 billion valuation, pays its top employees. The act requires the company to report the top

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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock

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Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well. Thanks to The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), we can see the total compensation that defense tech startup Anduril, valued at $14 billion valuation, pays its top employees. The act requires the company to report the top

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Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows — it’s not just AI code editors

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The Silicon Valley dream is to build a tech startup that is such a unique idea it alters the commercial universe and turns its founders into billionaires. Participating in the Valley’s most famed startup factory, Y Combinator, is often part of that dream. Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe all got started there. Yet, a deep dive

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Plex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service

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Streaming service and media software maker Plex on Friday introduced a redesign of its software that puts more emphasis on discovery, easily accessing your watchlist and other personalization features — including those for home media enthusiasts who still use the app to organize their media libraries. Over the years, the company has tried to balance

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