How to hire your first engineer: A guide for nontechnical founders
For founders who have a startup idea — but few engineering skills to make it a reality — making the team’s first technical hire can be a daunting task.
Nontechnical founders will face greater challenges when it comes to sourcing and recruiting engineering talent, but another factor that r
DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk
The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor issues and concerns over transmission have led many sectors to take a good, long look at automat
GoodRx offers founders $500M, nets $100M investment from Silver Lake, and makes quiet acquisition before IPO
GoodRx is a rare breed of modern tech IPO: a startup that is actually profitable and heading to the public markets. The consumer service offers coupons on prescriptions redeemable at pharmacies that can save customers significant money on their monthly drug prices.
The company filed an amended S-1
Satellite Vu aims to scope out the whole globe with thermal vision
Earth observation has evolved from government-run missions to a crucial everyday business tool, but it still has room to grow. Specifically, into the thermal infrared spectrum, if startup Satellite Vu gets itself into orbit. The company plans to be able to monitor the heat signatures of most of the
Bumble will exist as long as women do, CEO says
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd wants to build a truly timeless company.
“You can never disrupt the need for humans to connect. And the other thing that you can never disrupt is the need for women to feel respected and to feel equal and to feel safe and empowered in those connections. And those
Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry with safe, cost-effective hybrid engines
While SpaceX and its ilk in the commercial rocket launch market have changed the economics of space and ushered in an era of small satellite entrepreneurship, the actual rocket engine technology they use isn’t that different from what was in use 50 years ago when NASA was making its first for
GM to reveal, start taking reservations for Hummer EV on October 20
GM will reveal its GMC-branded electric Hummer on October 20, the same day that the company will also begin taking customer reservations for the new vehicle that it describes as a “super truck.”
The Hummer EV debut, which was originally scheduled to occur May 20 and delayed due to COVI
Clinic Price Check has built a service to see if patients can save money by paying cash for procedures
Before launching Clinic Price Check, Joanne Rodrigues-Craig had been a stay-at-home mom with Master’s degrees in population demographics, political science and applied mathematics from UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics.
She’d written a book on demographics and politics, pub
Extra Crunch Partner Perk: Discount on Dell XPS laptop and Dell for Entrepreneurs program
We're excited to announce a new Partner Perk from Dell for Extra Crunch members. Starting today, annual and two-year Extra Crunch members can get a discount on a Dell XPS laptop as well as a discount on membership to the Dell for Entrepreneurs program.
What is the Dell for Entrepreneurs program
Matidor is building an all-in-one geospatial project collaboration platform
It’s a big world out there, but the software that allows professionals to take a closer look at geospatial data hasn’t made the same leaps that consumer-focused platforms have.
Matidor, a Vancouver-based geospatial visualization and collaboration startup, is building a project platform
Amazon rebrands FreeTime to Amazon Kids, expands paid catalog for Amazon Kids+
Amazon today announced it will rebrand its kid-friendly services formerly known as Amazon FreeTime and Amazon FreeTime Unlimited to Amazon Kids and Amazon Kids+. In addition to the name change, the services are being redesigned to include a new home screen experience, Amazon Echo integrations, and
Nikola disputes fraud claims in carefully worded rebuttal
Nikola Corp., the hydrogen electric vehicle startup that went public this year through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, released Monday a point-by-point rebuttal that attempts to disprove a report issued last week by short-seller Hindenburg Research that accused the company of f
Sentinel loads up with $1.35M in the deepfake detection arms race
Estonia-based Sentinel, which is developing a detection platform for identifying synthesized media (aka deepfakes), has closed a $1.35 million seed round from some seasoned angel investors — including Jaan Tallinn (Skype), Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise), Ragnar Sass & Martin Henk (Pipedri
Google will announce a new Pixel, smart speaker and Chromecast September 30
Hardware season is in full swing. Apple's big Watch event kicks off tomorrow and Samsung is readying itself for a third (!) Unpacked event on September 23. Now Google's getting in on the fun. After opting to skip a virtual version of I/O earlier this year, the company has confirmed that it