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Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it

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Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded.  Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She’s now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces.  She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail […]

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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

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Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach.  In a statement late last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breach, which it described as a

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Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

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Slow Ventures’ Creator Fund has invested $2 million into Jonthan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, nearly 75 million video views, and his own line of woodworking tools.  This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch

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What founders should think about if looking to raise a Series C

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Startup founders face a perplexing and even contradictory capital market in 2025, according to Sapphire Ventures partner Cathy Gao. “Capital isn’t scarce. But access to that capital is harder than ever,” she said. Gao, who spoke at TechCrunch’s All Stage conference in July, said it’s possible for startup founders, especially those in later Series C

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How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store

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The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about to witness a presentation and that they had better be nice.  That’s what Kendall, the sister of Lucious McDaniel IV, did, and after she stepped aside, her brother pitched

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Betaworks’ third fund closes at $66M to invest in early-stage AI startups

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New York City-based Betaworks has closed its $66 million Fund III, which will focus on investing in early-stage AI companies.  Betaworks has been investing in AI since at least 2016 and, through its investment program Camp, has backed companies such as Huggingface and Granola. Jordan Crook, a partner at the firm (and former TechCrunch employee),

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The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions

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Most founders eventually have to pitch venture firms in hopes of raising capital. Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, took the stage at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston to answer how to craft the perfect one. “I like to think of a VC pitch as your initial way for assessing founder-investor fit,” she told

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