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Industry Ventures raises a $900M fund for investing in small, early-stage VCs and their breakout startups

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The venture fundraising trend in 2024 is fairly clear by now: Large, established VC firms are continuing to attract capital from limited partners, while smaller, newer funds are finding it more difficult to raise. But Industry Ventures’ latest fundraise should offer a dash of good news for emerging managers. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old firm announced […]

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Jul

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Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste

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The amount of waste produced by the construction industry adds up to more than a third of the overall waste produced each year in the European Union. And it’s no better in the U.S. Stateside, the construction industry produces more than double the waste that households do each year. Sensorita wants to help the construction […]

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Jul

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Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands

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Samyr Laine and his wife, Ayanna Alexander-Laine, started Freedom Trail Capital in 2023 and are working their way toward a $50 million fund. Both are former Olympians who competed for Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago, respectively, in the triple jump. Now they put their grit and determination to work for founders wanting to launch and […]

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Jul

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Beauty tech startup Boldhue raises capital to ship its at-home custom makeup dispenser

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Have you ever wanted a personalized makeup dispenser? Well, Boldhue‘s co-founder and CTO Karin Layton has built just that: A device that aims to be the “Keurig for makeup.” Boldhue’s device essentially scans your face and dispenses a customized foundation formula that matches your skin tone. The beauty tech startup on Tuesday said it had […]

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Jul

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Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs

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Indian edtech giant Unacademy is laying off about 250 employees, the latest in a series of layoffs since the reopening of schools across the country after the pandemic. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, valued at $3.4 billion in its last funding in 2021, is cutting 100 jobs in core roles (marketing, business and product) and 150 in […]

02
Jul

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Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18

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Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few weeks with extended support for multiple new languages across the lock screen, Siri, keyboard, and search on iOS 18. With the new update, you can now customize the lock screen […]

01
Jul

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Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

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Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic’s program will dole out grants to third-party organizations that can, as the company puts it in a blog post, “effectively […]

01
Jul

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Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money

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A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the senators implicated both the partners and investors of the company as being responsible for missing customer funds. In a letter shared publicly on Monday, U.S. […]

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Jul

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TechCrunch Space: Star spangled | TechCrunch

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. I hope everyone has a fantastic July 4 this week. Go eat a hot dog. Read my story from last week on the causes of Starliner’s additional delay and what it might mean for Boeing’s Starliner program. Want to reach out with a tip? Email Aria at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com […]

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Jul

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Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden

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Music, podcasts, audiobooks…emergency alerts? Spotify’s latest test has the streaming app venturing into new territory with a test of an emergency alerts system in its home market of Sweden. According to code references found within the Spotify app, the company is considering a system that would help distribute public announcements related to things like “accidents, […]

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Industry Ventures raises a $900M fund for investing in small, early-stage VCs and their breakout startups

Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste

Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands

Beauty tech startup Boldhue raises capital to ship its at-home custom makeup dispenser

Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs

Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18

Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money

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