TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A recent report from Pitchbook shows that 'mega-deals' could be inflating AI startup funding totals, giving a misleading picture of the sector's health. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

The deals have a combined value of around $3 billion. Isomorphic Labs, the London-based, drug discovery-focused spin-out of Google AI R&D division DeepMind, today announced that it’s entered into strategic partnerships with two pharmaceutical giants, Eli Lilly and Novartis, to apply AI to discover new medications to treat diseases.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Some two years of talking about gig worker rights later and European Union lawmakers have finally reached a deal on the final shape of the Platform Worker Directive. The development could deliver a significant boost for millions of gig workers laboring on digital platforms without being afforded workers rights. The EU estimates some 5.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The new deal comes scarcely two months after it was revealed that Amazon was facing a lawsuit over its decision not to consider SpaceX — the most reliable rocket company on the planet — […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The new deal will also see TikTok […] © 2023 TechCrunch. The company will join other large publishers, including NBCU, Condé Nast, DotDash Meredith, BuzzFeed and more, which offer brand-safe videos for marketers to place their ads around. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Two years ago, EV startup Fisker seemed to have hooked a giant when it announced a deal with Taiwanese iPhone maker Foxconn to build a sub-$30,000 crossover in the United States. It turns out that deal hasn’t been finalized, according to comments Fisker founder and CEO Henrik Fisker made during an interview with TechCrunch.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The post Dealing with meeting tensions the Agile way first appeared on Agile Alliance. Every group has a point where their working plan comes off the rails. This happens even with the most experienced Agilists – even your Agile Alliance Board of Directors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Shares of Adobe sold off following last week’s news that the United States government is “getting ready to file suit to block the $20 billion Adobe-Figma deal announced last year on the grounds it is anti-competitive,” though not as sharply as when the company announced the deal back in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Alteryx, an Irvine, California-based software company developing data science and analytics products, today announced that it’s agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners in a deal worth $4.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

These deals were traditionally harder to track than primary venture capital deals, as they don’t generally get announced, but a new fleet of startups is shining light on them. ” Secondary market trackers are lighting up a traditionally dark deal environment by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

UAE-based Zest Equity, a startup digitizing private market dealings, has raised $3.8 million seed funding to build more tools for enabling fast and transparent transactions by ecosystem players while increasing their liquidity through secondary deals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Photoshop-maker then confirmed the deal with a release and a short investor presentation. Before we do all that real work, however, can I just say that I am oddly bummed by the deal? How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal? TechCrunch’s coverage of the announcement is here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Figma still gets a $1 billion consolation prize as part of the deal, and as the leader in collaborative design, should land on its feet just fine. Adobe and Figma ended their $20 billion acquisition dream this morning after regulators signaled it would continue to be rough going. But for Adobe, it could be another […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

As we get closer to the end of the year, I thought it would be a good time to catch up with a few people who kept a close eye on deal flow in 2022 and look for indicators of what might be coming in 2023. An update on deal-flow newsletters. It’s driving deal flow. I look forward to writing more dispatches in the New Year!

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. Despite the early lead and the recent provisional deal, the legislation is not likely to come into effect before 2025, and, this might not be enough as AI is advancing rapidly. “As

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

It's not surprising Victory Park Capital can't find a buyer for its stake in Perch; this market is tough for Amazon aggregator startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Not so fast on that Christmas present for precarious gig workers in the EU: A political deal announced mid month, which aims to bolster platform workers rights across the European Union by establishing a legal presumption of employment, does not have the necessary qualified majority backing among Member States, it emerged today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But while SVB’s failure may have a long-lasting impact on the banking and venture debt industries, it doesn’t look likely to have any lasting adverse impact on one of venture’s hardest-hit areas: deal activity. Venture capital deal volume has been almost steadily declining since the beginning of 2022.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) that calls for the software giant to buy a 4% stake in the exchange in order to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. The deal with the London Stock Exchange was not the only acquisition news announced by Microsoft in recent days.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2024

In this blogpost i’ll talk about ‘How to Deal with a Highly Sensitive Person’ (Especially if you are one). In this blog post, I share some insights and tips for dealing with a Highly Sensitive Person, especially if that person is you. The post How to Deal With a Highly Sensitive Person appeared first on Xebia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Circle’s SPAC deal made news when announced last year and earlier this year when it was repriced. What happened between then and now to get us from a new, higher deal price to a termination? Thoughts on the demise of Circle’s SPAC deal by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch. billion to $9 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

An increasing number of venture firms think the solution to cutting through the noise is by incorporating data science into their deal sourcing process. ” Slowly but surely, data is helping VCs look beyond networks for sourcing deals by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

First, the good news: “On an annual basis, angel- and seed-stage deal activity remained relatively resilient in 2022, with $21.0 billion invested across an estimated 7,261 deals,” the report said. Q4 2022 marked the fourth consecutive quarter of declining deal counts while exit activity for the entire year fell to $71.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2023

RepeatMD recently raised a $50 million Series A round to serve the exploding med spa industry that is built on consumer beauty trends. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

That deal was killed yesterday when Intel announced it was walking away due to regulatory issues getting the deal approved, particularly in China. and China doomed the deal, and it’s going to be hard for Intel to replace that capacity. and China doomed the deal, and it’s going to be hard for Intel to replace that capacity. “I

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Enter Checkmate , a company they started 18 months ago that aims to compete against online deal aggregators, like Honey , Capital One Shopping and Vetted , to provide a shopping tool that gathers all the online discount codes, gift cards and personalized deals from your inbox and automatically applies them at checkout.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

billion price tag for the UBS-Wealthfront deal matters, then, as it could impact the exit values for not only other startups, but also hundreds of millions of dollars worth of invested venture capital. We’ll explore each briefly to get a better grip on how the company was valued in its sale, and what UBS is getting out of the deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Nth Cycle is one of the few startups tackling the cleantech's carbon-heavy supply chain and building a cleaner infrastructure for the sector. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Twilio-Segment acquisition was the biggest story of the weekend, and in our current IPO lull, it is the most discussed deal of the moment. The all-stock transaction is another big deal from Twilio, which previously scooped up SendGrid. So, does the Segment deal look cheap, or expensive?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Popup Bagels raised $8 million in venture capital this week. But why would a bagel store chain want such expensive capital? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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