Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 202301K views A company that makes a chastity device for people with a penis that can be controlled by a partner over the internet exposed users’ email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses… Read more
Deal Dive: A cellular ag startup with a real moat Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230224 views Would you eat lab-grown meat? Would you give the same answer if someone asked you to use a beauty product that had lab-grown collagen as an ingredient? Cellular agriculture —… Read more
Checkout’s Céline Dufétel will join us on the Fintech Stage at TC Disrupt Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230931 views Economic headwinds have scattered many of the gains that fintech companies made during the tech funding boom of 2021. Case in point — global payment platforms Stripe and Checkout.com lowered… Read more
Making the world a better place? Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230199 views W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign… Read more
Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?’ Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230184 views A version of this story original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. A big and often unremarked upon aspect of being a reporter is knowing your audience.… Read more
Amazon increases fees, ChatGPT comes to the enterprise, and Apple announces a press conference Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230134 views Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that recaps the major happenings in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too slammed to follow the developments… Read more
Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230135 views Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weekend here in the… Read more
Watered-down SEC fund disclosure changes still worth paying attention to Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230142 views Venture capital firms have some disclosing to do. On August 23, the SEC passed a handful of new fund disclosure rules concerning clawbacks, preferential treatment of LPs and fees. Fund… Read more
Crypto funding in August wasn’t as good as the numbers may lead you to believe Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230131 views Crypto and blockchain startups haven’t been having a good time raising funds for quite a while now, given the overall slowdown in funding, a stronger focus on due diligence, and… Read more
Greylock, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Pear VC join Startup Battlefield judges Beryl KilonzoSeptember 3, 20230283 views Just a couple more weeks until 20 of the world’s top early-stage startups take to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to compete for an equity-free, $100,000 grand prize… Read more