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Who cut the plant-based cheese? Plonts did with microbes, and it’s stinky

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Among plant-based alternative proteins, plant-based cheese continues to have a function and taste problem. That’s where Plonts comes in. Company founders Nathaniel Chu and Josh Moser say microbes are the key to what will fix the taste, smell, flavor, stretch and melt of plant-based cheese. In fact, it’s the microbes that give cheese its distinctive […]

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German computer scientists raise $30 million to help companies make sense of their data

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It’s not easy for organizations to become data-driven, despite the aspirations many have to get there. Even orgs with data analytics teams often struggle to make effective use of their data. According to a recent Gartner survey, fewer than half of data and analytics leaders say their teams are effective in providing value to their

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Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M

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Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup developing AI market research based on that location data, Placer.ai, has quietly raised $75 million at an expanded valuation of nearly $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned. The startup provides a wide range of

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Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment

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Peloton had one of the most turbulent half decades in tech. The home fitness firm experienced some of the industry’s highest highs and lowest lows in dizzying succession. It’s the story of buzzy startup that became the target of a cult-like following among influencers and fitness fanatics. A global pandemic shot the brand to unknown

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Connect with Google Cloud, Aerospace, Qualcomm and more at Disrupt 2024

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! Disrupt brings innovation for every stage of your startup journey, and we could not bring you this world-class event without our world-class partners. Take advantage of the opportunity to leverage the expertise and resources of some of tech’s leading companies. Their participation

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VC darling Rad Power Bikes hit with another round of layoffs

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Rad Power Bikes, the Seattle-based e-bike startup that has raised more than $300 million from investors, went through another round of layoffs in July, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. This is the company’s fifth round since April 2021, when it cut back 100 staffers.  Rad’s latest layoffs follow a culling a year ago, where the e-bike

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Open-source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5 million developers

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Open-source compliance and security platform FOSSA has acquired developer community platform StackShare, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.  StackShare is one of the more popular platforms for developers to discuss, track, and share the tools they use to build applications. This encompasses everything from which front-end JavaScript framework to use to which cloud provider to use

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