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Pitch Deck Teardown: Rypplzz' $3M seed deck
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThis week, we're taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced "ripples"), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million. Rypplzz...
Scene Report: Boston
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoWhat surprised me most on returning to Boston* for the first time since the onset of the pandemic was just how clustered things are. Much like...
What 227 Y Combinator pitches will teach you about startups
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn some ways, Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day is somewhat predictable: There will be Stanford...
Labor pains
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn this case, the bot approached the intersection and a human operator took over. For this week, I’ve been thinking about Amazon again. The Amazon Labor...
Even decacorns have their challenges
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoLast week’s big news was corporate spend management startup Brex’s announcement that it was laying off 11% of its staff, or 136 people. It was also...
AI comes to expense reports
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoLast week, TripActions announced it was rebranding and is now called Navan. In 2021, CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen told me that its revenue didn’t just...
Former a16z partner starts solo fund to back early-stage fintech startups
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn 2015, Rex Salisbury was working as a software engineer at now-defunct mortgage startup Sindeo...
Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with first smartphone
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoPunkt first made a name for itself in the world of mobile with pared-down, monochromatic phones...
Meet Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoSam Altman is well known in the startup scene in Silicon Valley.Courtesy of Sam Altman OpenAI just...
When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoThe CEO of a Norwegian hardware startup shared a pitch deck with me that had an unusual slide: It included the company’s capitalization table — the...