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Pitch Deck Teardown: Rypplzz' $3M seed deck
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 5 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...
Pitch Deck Teardown: RAW Dating App's $3M angel deck
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoPitch decks are a lot like dating: You’ve got to strut your stuff to convince investors that you're the perfect match, worthy of millions to grow and...
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...
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...
Are debt financings the new venture round for fintechs startups?
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoLast week, I wrote about Founderpath, an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B...
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...
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoMicrosoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a "new advanced AI...
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...