So your startup’s runway is dwindling and fundraising is hard. What’s next?
The concept of having a runway has its own set of maxims for startup founders. Investors we’ve interviewed generally agree that a successful fundraise should leave a startup with 18 to 36 months of capital, and by the time a startup has around 9 to 12 months of cash, it
Read moreOpenText unveils its vision for AI
Last week, information management company OpenText announced opentext.ai, the company’s strategy and vision for artificial intelligence (AI). “The internet changed everything. With AI, everything must change,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, chief executive, OpenText. “It is clear this is a new era of technology, the cognitive era. AI will impact what
Read moreRivian beats on Q2 revenue, raises EV production guidance for 2023
Rivian gained positive momentum in the second-quarter and beat Wall Street expectations as the company ramped up EV sales, narrowed losses, reduced costs and shored up its supply chain. Rivian struck a confident tone in its second-quarter earnings, which was released after markets closed Tuesday, even raising its production guidance
Read moreGoogle is picking up the pace of Chrome security update releases
Image: The Verge Google’s “milestone” Chrome releases in the stable channel that come every four weeks will now be accompanied by weekly security updates (previously biweekly) to help close the “patch gap” between fixes appearing in Canary / Beta releases and when they go out to most users. Bad actors
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Read moreHackers had access to UK voter data for over a year before anyone noticed
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A cyberattack that began in August 2021 exposed the personal data of people in the United Kingdom who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The attack wasn’t detected until October 2022, the UK Electoral Commission reported today. Attackers would have also
Read moreGoogle’s Messages app will now use RCS by default and encrypt group chats
Google announced today it’s making its Messages by Google app more secure with improvements to RCS, or Rich Communication Services — a protocol aimed at replacing SMS and is more on par with the advanced features found in Apple’s iMessage. The company says it will now make RCS the default
Read moreKickstarter’s CEO eyes the future of crowdfunding at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
It wasn’t the first, but for more than 10 years, Kickstarter has been synonymous with crowdfunding. We’re excited to announce that CEO Everette Taylor will join us on the Hardware Stage, September 21, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. In a session called “Crowdfunding the Future,” we’ll discuss Taylor’s vision for the
Read moreInsights into Stack Overflow’s traffic
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen inaccurate data and graphs circulating on social media channels regarding Stack Overflow’s traffic. We wanted to take the opportunity to provide additional context and information on the origin of that data, the traffic trends we are seeing, and the work we’re doing to
Read more5 lessons robotics founders can learn from the AV industry
Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. However, the category’s meteoric rise preceded an even
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