Here are the most richly valued startup types in today’s early-stage venture market
If you want to score the largest possible early-stage valuation, what should your startup focus on? New data makes it clear that the seed and Series A markets are hardly equal when it comes to what venture capitalists are willing to pay for one category of startup over another. Don’t
Read moreFIS acquires, and Better.com lays off
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’ll be taking a break next weekend as Mary Ann and Christine both take much-needed vacations (we didn’t plan this, honestly!) but don’t worry, The Interchange will be back in your inbox on June 25. Consolidation continues in
Read moreTiki, a popular short video app in India, to shut down
Tiki, a short-form video app, is set to cease operations in India on June 27, the latest addition to a growing roster of businesses that have faltered in their attempts to cash in on the void created by New Delhi’s ban on TikTok in the South Asian market. “We regret to
Read moreApple unveils the Vision Pro, iOS 17 brings new features, and WhatsApp launches Channels
Hello, friends, and welcome to Week in Review, TechCrunch’s regular digest of the top tech news over the past several days. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday. It’s where we highlight the key stories in the week that was (Apple Vision Pro, anyone?) and other
Read moreCan AI make older adults feel less lonely?
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Read moreSecure your startup’s future by watching the big corporations
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Starting next week, it moves to Fridays at 12 pm PT. As a startup founder, wouldn’t it be awesome if you could predict the future a little bit more than you currently do? It turns
Read moreDeal Dive: Finally, a startup building a network for those who could benefit the most
The tech industry has tried hard to address its diversity problem, but hiring talent from different backgrounds is only the first “challenge.” A bigger one is retaining them. Porter Braswell is no stranger to the statistics or to companies’ various excuses for why the numbers are so bad. Early in
Read moreThis week in foodtech: Cultivated meat is still a sizzling topic
If you’re adventurous with your food, or just like to keep up with the fast-moving foodtech industry, here’s a roundup of this week’s stories and some notable news we weren’t able to cover. Bring home the bacon Some big news came from across the pond where the U.K.-based cultivated meat
Read moreUsing Computer Vision for Poker
Image generated by MidjourneyNot so long ago, I got into poker, and since I enjoyed working with computer vision, I decided to combine business with pleasure.General functioning of the programI should point out right away that I chose PokerStars as a game room and the most popular variety of poker — Texas Hold’em.
Read moreCollecting a large number of coupons
This post is an addendum to the recent post Reviewing a thousand things. We’re going to look again at the coupon collector problem, randomly sampling a set of N things with replacement until we’ve collected one of everything. As noted before, for large N the expected number of draws before you’ve seen
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