Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
More than 100 VCs, including Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Mobilizing under the…
Startups are attracting serious funding to provide fun, alcohol-free drink options at the bar and in other social contexts. Earlier this year, canned water company…
Match Group announced Tuesday that it has discontinued livestreaming services in its dating apps, resulting in a 6% reduction in workforce. The news was delivered during the dating app giant’s second-quarter…
This week’s video shows 4NE-1 doing a lot; in some sense, it’s doing more than we’ve seen from other humanoids in the space.
Bending Spoons said that it will continue reserving 30% of WeTransfer’s advertising space to give back campaigns and editorial content.
Global startup funding was up 16% in the second quarter, according to Crunchbase data, led by an uptick in mega-rounds. That increase was led, unsurprisingly,…
AI agents are all the rage right now, and Tezi, an early-stage startup, is working on one to help HR teams find the perfect candidates for a job opening. The…
Sybill, a startup that has built an AI assistant specifically for sales reps, has raised $11 million in a Series A round led by Greycroft.
Social
Date Like Goblins, a new dating platform, allows users to virtually date and play video games
Date Like Goblins is geared toward the gaming community and allows users to connect through voice chat while playing video games.
Farms produce a lot of data. From machines to irrigation systems, farms generate a lot of information that could be helpful to both them and the companies that serve them.…
Where we’ll be next
Apps
Travel startup Mindtrip’s new feature lets you build an itinerary from a screenshot, YouTube or TikTok video
You can even upload a screenshot of a ticket, or a list of cities you are visiting and ask Mindtrip’s assistant to suggest places to visit, bars and restaurants.
The startup has raised $21.5 million to build more of its machines and deploy them throughout the U.S.
Checkly helps devs get signals about an app’s performance and downtime, offering a set of subscription-based synthetic monitoring tools.
Lightrun also on Wednesday disclosed an $18 million SAFE round it raised last year, bringing Lightrun’s total funding to date to $45 million.
Threads users in the U.S. can now see a label that highlights related trending topics above posts.
Security
Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say
Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge and Hily all had the same flaw that could have helped a malicious user identify the near-exact location of another user.
Alex Cook, a partner at Tiger Global who oversaw some of its largest fintech investments and India deals, is departing the firm after a tenure of nearly seven years, three…
A lot of AI bills are flying around Congress these days, and OpenAI is throwing its weight behind some of them. OpenAI endorsed three Senate bills on Tuesday which could…
The software supply chain faces threats from all sides. A 2024 report by the Ponemon Institute found that over half of organizations have experienced a software supply chain attack, with…
Startups
SEC charges BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji with fraud; says proceeds paid for L.A. mansion, gifts
The founder of once-hyped crypto startup BitClout is facing trouble. On Tuesday, the SEC charged him with fraud and other offenses.
