Elon Musk’s X is updating its Terms of Service to indicate it still lays claim to the “Twitter” trademark. The move to add this detail to the company’s terms follows an announcement from a Virginia-based startup, which recently filed an application to trademark the term “Twitter.” The startup, Operation Bluebird, claims that X had abandoned […]
Marley Alles started out in accounting. She thought that her dream was to work at a big company. “And then once I got there, I was like ‘oh, that’s it,” she told TechCrunch. Alles began fostering other passions and found herself curious about the world of startups. She would listen to every podcast and read each book, taking notes on
Canadian peer-to-Peer clothing rental company Rax is expanding to the U.S. Read More »
The Nordic red-hot startup movement continues. On Tuesday, Neil Murray, founder and general partner at Copenhagen-based firm The Nordic Web Ventures, announced the close of a $6 million Fund III to continue investing in early-stage founders in the region. The fund will focus on writing the first institutional checks to companies focused on robotics, AI-native companies, and deep tech founders. Murray, a solo GP,
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Flaviu Radulesc started Runware in 2023 when he was testing a text-to-image company and realized that, though genAI tech was powerful, it was slow in generating images. So Radulesc teamed up with Ioana Hreninciuc and launched Runware as a dev tool platform that specializes in generating images, videos, and audio in real time. The company has seen much
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Fertility startup Inito has raised $29 million in Series B funding to scale its at-home health diagnostics platform and use AI-designed antibodies to unlock new kinds of at-home tests. When the company launched its first fertility monitor in 2021, its goal was to make quantitative fertility hormone testing possible at home. While standard at-home ovulation
The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused content monetization startup Curastory of overstating revenue to investors and misrepresenting true client numbers, according to paperwork seen by TechCrunch. As a result of a settlement with the SEC, Curastory’s founder and CEO, Tiffany Kelly, has resigned from the role and replaced herself with Dave Dickman, former CEO of the influencer marketing platform Tagger. Under Dickman’s leadership, the company has begun fundraising, international
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January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer stopped by the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt to chat about fundraising in this very AI-driven market. Founders and investors alike are obsessed with AI, and even Neundorfer said her firm is looking at ways to use AI to make their work more efficient, such as helping to do due
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Auckland-founded Kiki Club launched its peer-to-peer subletting startup in New York City in 2023 with the mission of helping renters sublet their apartments while traveling for extended periods. However, Kiki’s model violated local short-term rental laws, leading to its shutdown this past June. The New York Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) announced on Wednesday
For Daniil Boiko and Andrei Tyrin, the idea for Onepot AI came from the same frustration. “The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is the creation of new molecules by using chemical reactions. It’s like a recipe or Lego pieces, where small pieces, ingredients, molecules, come together to form a wider puzzle picture, a food dish, a larger molecule. As
Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier Read More »
Jenny Button first thought of Emm during the COVID lockdown. She was using an Oura ring and the Whoop monitoring band and getting insights about her body, but there wasn’t a device that could provide data about one of the most important aspects — reproductive and menstrual health. “It seemed crazy to me, because these are things that every woman wants to be able to
Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world’s first ‘smart’ menstrual cups Read More »
