With liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
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Leveraging 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…
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In its most recent quarter, Microsoft reported $62 billion worth of revenue, $27 billion worth of operating income, and $21.9 billion worth of net income. It also recently cut 1,900…
It’s been a long time since Salesforce helped change the world of technology by claiming it was going to end software. Its model of selling access to a managed service…
The collapse of Amazon’s proposed deal to buy iRobot highlights just how critical the IPO market is this year. With governments tightening the screws on big tech companies trying to…
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Tech layoffs are accelerating, according to the data. The surge in staff cuts comes after reductions in human capital slowed so much in the back-half of 2023 that we wrote…
Fintech has been in the dumps for a while now, and with companies like Brex once again cutting staff as they try to rein in costs, you’d be forgiven for…
Like a tenacious balloon, no matter how hard crypto gets knocked down, it tends to float back up again. I’ve found that to be true in all the years I…
We all make mistakes. But sometimes we forget that technology does, too — especially when it comes to AI, which is still in its early days in many respects. ©…
After watching Lucy pull the football from Charlie Brown’s foot at the last possible moment time and time again, we have learned our lesson and are therefore hesitant to believe…
Reddit could finally go public this year. On the heels of Circle’s IPO filing and news from a major exchange that a host of companies are preparing to go public…
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The prospect of losing billions in revenue is never good news, even if you are Apple Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 8 hours TechCrunch primarily covers the startup world, but we…
More than 100 companies are getting ready to list on Nasdaq after filing confidentially with the SEC, Nasdaq’s CEO Adena Friedman told investing publication Barron’s. Barron’s called Friedman’s comment “startling,”…
Twilio’s CEO and co-founder, Jeff Lawson, is stepping down from his role and his seat on the company’s board, following months of pressure from activist investors and several quarters of…
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Even though news of potential interest rate cuts has led to optimism that the IPO window might reopen and things might improve in startup land, it appears the global venture…
Crypto seems to have two modes. The first is when your friends won’t stop talking about it. The second is when your friends want you to stop talking about it. Having…
Junkification and fierce competition paint a tough path ahead Remember when we wrote that Spotify’s latest layoffs make sense? Well, we feel the same about Etsy’s announcement that it would…
CB Insights estimates that Figma is still worth between $8.3 billion and $9 billion A failed acquisition often spells doom for the target company. But despite its $20 billion takeover…