Nuclear startup Oklo has signed a massive deal with data center operator Switch, but caveats abound. The new agreement would see Oklo building enough small modular reactors (SMR) by 2044 to generate 12 gigawatts of electricity for Switch’s data centers, which today serve a wide range of companies, including Google, Nvidia, Tesla, Paypal, JP Morgan […]
A U.S. court ruled in August that Google has a search monopoly, and while Google appeals, the Justice Department is figuring out what kind of potential penalties to impose — like breaking off Chrome. As part of this process, the DOJ wants to call on a specific witness, according to a recent court filing: Dmitry
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Jon Morehouse launched PowerTools in 2019 to help companies ship static sites and serverless apps to their cloud accounts on providers like AWS and Azure. When a customer asked him if they could use PowerTools to deploy their software into one of their customer’s cloud accounts, Morehouse was skeptical. Morehouse told TechCrunch that after that
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Skims co-founder Jens Grede has confirmed that plans for an IPO are on the back burner—for now at least, according to a new interview with WWD. TechCrunch reported in August that investors were hoping for the retail darling, last valued at $4 billion, to go public, and the Information reported that the earliest it could
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Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows companies to patch up their security holes before something catastrophic happens. Prequel is looking to bring that same approach to software. The startup is building a database of software failure patterns or
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Juicyway, an African fintech that leverages stablecoin technology to power fast and cheap cross-border payments, is launching out of stealth after processing over $1 billion in transaction volume for thousands of African businesses over the last three years. The fintech claims to have processed over 25,000 transactions, generating $1.3 billion in total payment volume (TPV)
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week in startup news, we have some contrarian bets, funding rounds from all around the world, new VC funds, and a final word of warning. Most
What failed before might succeed now — or fail again — and other startup bets Read More »
All year long, TechCrunch covers startups, everything from unicorns to tiny seed-stage launches. We are, in many ways, the startup experts. To create this list, organized alphabetically, we looked back through our year’s worth of coverage for startups that stood out to us. They have fascinating new technologies, business models, or founder stories, or are
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Running a startup can be expensive, requiring a multitude of different subscriptions. Cap table management software, which helps founders organize their funding, can cost thousands of dollars a year. San Francisco-based Carta is the market leader in this industry. But some startup founders say Carta is making it too hard to cancel their subscriptions. The
Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say Read More »
ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursday, much to the delight of retail investors. The stock quickly popped from its opening IPO sales price of $71 million to $105 a share in modest trading volume. It is currently maintaining an above-$100 price. ServiceTitan’s
ServiceTitan’s IPO is a big winner that could inspire fintechs Read More »
