Cindy Taff was standing out in the flat expanse of Starr County, Texas, in early 2022 when she felt it. “It was literally vibrating the ground,” she told TechCrunch. “That was an ‘ah-ha’ moment for me.” Her startup, Sage Geosystems, was testing equipment used to harvest heat from deep in the earth. The team had […]
Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, shut down in early August, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Score was only supposed to be a pop-up app, as TechCrunch previously reported, and was only supposed to be around for 90 days. This was back in February. But it received so much user
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Elevate your brand’s presence at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco by hosting a custom Side Event during “Disrupt Week,” taking place October 26 through November 1. Engage face-to-face with over 10,000 Disrupt 2024 attendees, your network, and the Bay Area’s dynamic tech community. You can host any activity that resonates with your brand such
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The valuation of Oyo, once India’s second-most valuable startup at $10 billion, has dipped to $2.4 billion in a new funding round. The Gurugram-headquartered startup has raised $173.5 million in a Series G funding round. InCred Wealth, Patient Capital and J&A Partners invested in the new round. TechCrunch reported in May that Oyo was seeking
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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 we are looking at AI founders who are playing musical chairs, a massive defense tech investment, and more issues at Techstars. Let’s get into it. Most
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The rise of neobanks has been fascinating to witness, as a number of companies in recent years have grown from merely challenging traditional banks to being massive players in and of themselves. Chime and Dave are just two examples of such neobanks. Hear from Chime product officer Madhu Muthukumar and Dave CEO Jason Wilk at
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Defense tech startup Anduril has closed what will almost certainly end up being one of the largest funding rounds of the year: a $1.5 billion deal that values the company at $14 billion. Anduril has ambitions of becoming the next great American defense contractor, joining a class of companies that has shrunk to just five
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A U.K. space startup has revealed plans to launch its first satellite as part of SpaceX’s rideshare program, ushering in what it claims will be a “new era of space research,” where astronomy data is collected, packaged and sold “as a service.” Similar to previous missions, SpaceX’s Transporter 15 program next year will use a
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Techstars is laying off 17% of its workforce and will end its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed Advancing Cities Program once the fund is completely deployed at the end of this year, TechCrunch has learned. The Advancing Cities program, which launched in 2022, saw the launch of accelerator programs across the nation in cities like Oakland,
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Most startups are looking to solve a problem inside a business, but Bandana, a New York City-based startup has a different goal. It wants to help people at the lower end of the wage scale find better jobs with higher wages and good benefits, all while being closer to home to reduce commuting time. Today,
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