TechCrunchY Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scansverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anna HeimLeveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news: We need more companies attacking cancer from novel angles, including AI-enabled early detection. And who knows, maybe one of these will become a trillion-dollar company? …
TechCrunchThese founders want a more ethical company structure for startupsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Haje Jan KampsI’ve long argued that VCs getting excited about climate change is scary and that the goal of a startup is to stop existing. But I haven’t been particularly successful at outlining what startup founders can actually do to build a more sustainable company in a world hurtling toward a climate …
TechCrunchIf you’re going to market, your GTM slide needs to be awesomeverified_publisherTechCrunch - Haje Jan KampsOnly 7% of founders have a pitch deck with a reasonably good go-to-market (GTM) narrative. Given that a lot of founders are raising money to acquire new customers, allow me to put words to what that means: It’s an absolute embarrassment. The vast majority of slide decks barely qualify to be called …
TechCrunchSeed funding: Everything founders should know about fundraising, seed rounds and more for 2024verified_publisherTechCrunch - Tim De ChantIf you’re looking at the current seed funding climate and thinking it’s rough out there, you’re not alone. The last few years have been a roller coaster for startups. First came the uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic, then came the exuberance mid to late in the pandemic when cash flowed …
TechCrunchSafety by designverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anna HeimW elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Tech’s ability to reinvent the wheel has its downsides: It can mean ignoring blatant truths that …
TechCrunchDeal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startupsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Rebecca SzkutakKai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that …
