3 lessons we learned after raising $6.3M from 50 investors
It was August 2019, and the fundraising process was not going well.
My co-founder and I had left our product management jobs at New Relic several months prior, deciding to finally plunge into building Reclaim after nearly a year of late nights and weekends spent prototyping and iterating on ideas.
Ford-owned Spin shakes up scooter business with new CEO, e-bikes and city strategy
Spin, the Ford-owned micromobility operator, has added a new CEO, launched a new strategy to capture market share and announced a plan to get back into bike share, although this time with an electric twist.
The flurry of moves suggest that Spin is still trying to figure out the best path forward
Google shares its $2M Black Founders Fund among 30 European startups
Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew.
The fund was announced last fall as part of a company-wid
Waymo’s driverless taxi service can now be accessed on Google Maps
Waymo One, the ride-hailing service that uses driverless vehicles in the suburbs of Phoenix, can now be accessed and booked through Google Maps.
This will be the first fully autonomous ride-hailing option available in the app, which will roll out first to Android users, Waymo said Thursday. The tea
SpaceX launches Dragon cargo spacecraft to the Space Station with new Falcon 9
SpaceX's Dragon capsule is once again heading to the International Space Station.
The company launched its 22nd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for NASA on Thursday. This is the fifth capsule SpaceX has sent to ISS in the last 12 months, SpaceX director of Dragon mission management S
Supreme Court limits US hacking law in landmark CFAA ruling
The Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who searched a license plate database for an acquaintance in exchange for cash did not violate U.S. hacking laws.
The landmark ruling concludes a long-running case that clarifies the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, by putting li
Blackstone acquires tech publisher IDG for $1.3B, as private equity strikes again
It’s been a busy week for private equity, with Cloudera, Stack Overflow and FireEye coming off the board on Tuesday and Wednesday. Today Blackstone bought media and data company IDG for $1.3 billion. The company had been owned by Oriental Rainbow, LLC, a subsidiary of China Oceanwide Holdings
Hormonal health is a massive opportunity: Where are the unicorns?
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse, but Elizabeth Ruzzo says she experienced it firsthand after telling a doctor that she suffered from suicidal ideation after taking birth control pills.
Ruzzo's doctor told her there was no connection between birth control and self-harm, but she deci
Announcing the Disrupt 2021 Extra Crunch Stage Agenda
Disrupt 2020 was an absolute banger of a conference, but we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We have an incredible Disrupt in store for you this September 21-23, with an amazing lineup of speakers across the hottest of topics, like crypto, health/biotech, SPACs, the creator economy and the
Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers
Simplified, a marketing-focused design software looking to take on Canva, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Craft Ventures. Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, former Uber CPO Manik Gupta, Pelican Ventures’ Ajay Yadav (also Roomie founder), Form Capital, 8Bit Capita
Twitter redesigns its mobile app to make Spaces the center tab
Twitter is updating its app to make its audio chat room feature, Twitter Spaces, a central part of the user experience. Today, the company will begin to roll out to select users a dedicated tab for Twitter Spaces in the main navigation bar of its mobile app, initially on iOS. The feature will see T
5 Reasons you need to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
Get ready to spend a full day rubbing virtual elbows with the global mobility community's best and brightest minds and makers. TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 takes place June 9, and we've packed the agenda with experts, interviews, demos, panel discussions, breakout sessions and a metric ton of
Ganaz raises $7M A round to rethink how agriculture workers get hired and paid
The agriculture sector is ripe for technological improvements, but beyond satellite-based crop management and bees-as-a-service, the actual people who work in the fields should be benefiting as well. Ganaz, empowered by a $7 million A round, aims to change how people with little documentation and n
Google's Pixel Buds A Series are an exercise in earbud cost cutting
Google does a lot of things well. But hardware strategy has never really been among them. The last several years have seen the company at least finding some consistency with its Pixel and Nest devices. But the former, in particular, has continued to struggle as the company has worked to find its fo