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Two more weeks to go: Connect with Meta, Dropbox, J.P. Morgan, and HP at Disrupt

In just over two weeks, TechCrunch will gather some of the startup world’s leading companies at Disrupt in San Francisco. But our partners provide more than just financial support. Their presence at Disrupt gives startups at any stage the tools, knowledge, and community they need to be a success. We thank Meta for their support […]

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Why Gusto has stayed focused on serving small businesses

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Getting payroll right is hard — especially for small businesses with limited resources. The three founders of payroll and benefits startup Gusto all found that out separately, running small businesses of their own, before linking up to try to fix the broken SMB payroll system in 2013. Josh Reeves, a co-founder and current CEO of

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Career Karma founders launch OutRival to help companies build AI agents

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Ruben Harris and Timur Meyster, the founders of the upskilling platform Career Karma, announced today the launch of the company OutRival, which offers a service that hosts and lets businesses build their own customer service agents to take on customer interactions. AI agent companies are hot right now, and AI is one of the only

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The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

Startups / Sasandara Dilmina

This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are ongoing. The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight

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How customer service AI startup Neuron7 convinced Keith Block to invest

Startups / Sasandara Dilmina

Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million series B round led by Keith Block and his year-and-half-old venture firm, Smith Point Capital. Neuron7 sits in one of the most promising areas for AI technology: customer service. But unlike the hoards of ChatGPT customer chatbot startups, or those doing natural language

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Inversion Space gets reentry license for orbital cargo delivery capsule demo

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Inversion Space has become the third company to receive a spacecraft reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration, paving the way for the startup to launch and return its tech pathfinder mission for orbital delivery later this year. The three-year-old startup has ambitions of transforming space into a new “transportation layer for Earth” using ultra-fast,

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Port is building internal tool hubs for devs

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Port, a platform designed to centralize multiple dev tools and workflows in a single dashboard, has raised $35 million in a Series B round co-led by Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners. Yonatan Boguslavski and Zohar Einy, now Port’s CEO, founded the company in 2022 after serving together in the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to Port,

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Concourse is building AI to automate financial tasks

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In a typical organization, finance is one of the most important functions. Yet teams are often bogged down by manual workflows. According to a survey by Paylocity, an HR software provider, 38% of finance teams spend more than a fourth of their time on manual jobs, like reviewing invoices. Matthieu Hafemeister, an ex-fintech investor at

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In memory of Steve O’Hear

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TechCrunch has lost one of its beloved former colleagues. Steve O’Hear, who wrote for TechCrunch for more than a decade out of his hometown of London, has passed away after a short illness. He was 49. It’s hard to put into words the remarkable talent that Steve was. Born with muscular dystrophy, he spent his

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Two more weeks to go: Connect with Meta, Dropbox, J.P. Morgan, and HP at Disrupt

Startups / Sasandara Dilmina

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