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Why startups are raising more venture debt as VC dollars near all-time records

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.As I write to you, SaaS and cloud stocks are busy setting fresh all-time highs and

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The six strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020

Seed fundraising is rarely easy, but it certainly used to be a lot less complicated than it is today. In a simpler world, a seed investor (or maybe two) would lead a round, which meant that they would

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The Palestinian dilemma

Palestinian protesters take part in clashes with Israeli troops on the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City on April. 6, 2018. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Tony Blair was the prime minister o

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Don't kick China when it's down

05:16 As another week draws to a close, the fight against the deadly coronavirus continues. But China is not only battling the virus but a wave of deeply repugnant and

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Facebook’s Twitter account compromised, hacker group claims credit

There’s this brilliant feeling on Fridays if you’re a reporter when you think that all the things you have to write about are complete. You kickstart some work for Monday. Maybe you tighte

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New Early Stage speakers to tackle growth marketing, media strategy and M&A

In a little less than three months, TechCrunch will bring its Early Stage event to SF for the very first time. Early Stage is meant to bring together more than 50 experts across startup core competenc

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What can these NFL teams buy with their money?

The 2020 NFL season will begin on September 10. Before that happens, many of the league's teams will need to invest in improving their franchise. Unlike the NBA, the NFL applies a hard salary cap,

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Carta debuts fund to invest in startups that tap into its platform

This morning Carta, a startup that helps private companies manage equity, announced it has created an investing vehicle called Carta Ventures. The well-funded unicorn wants to invest in young startup

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Scaleway launches block storage

Cloud hosting company Scaleway is adding a new service today —block storage. Consumers will be able to purchase additional storage, attach that volume to a cloud instance and use it for a database for

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YC-backed Goodcover launches into the fast-moving insurtech space

As the insuretech space fills up, a new entrant is joining the fight.Y Combinator -backed Goodcover is launching today to take on the likes of big insurance, as well as insurance startups like Lemonad

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UK unveils plans for climate conference amid criticism

Britain announced Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 — five years earlier than its previous target — in a bid to speed up effor

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Google’s Glass dreams live on with the arrival of enterprise hardware

Google Glass was ahead of its time. That’s not to say that the people who wore it out in public didn’t look like giant dorks, of course, but in hindsight it seems safe to say that the world just wasn’

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Feature: Beijing 2022 prep continues amid event cancelations

It's never easy to set a new standard of organizing a sporting event, especially when it comes to the Olympic Games. But Beijing is on its way to achieving this goal f

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Equity Monday: Stock market woes, vertical SaaS and WeWork gets serious

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho

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Backgrounder: Iowa caucuses, first nominating contests of 2020 U.S. presidential election

Iowa, a state in the Midwestern United States, is to hold Democratic and Republican caucuses on Monday, the first nomination contests on the 2020 presidential primary

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Italian-American emerges as new star of Italy’s left-wing

A dual U.S.-Italian citizen who cut her political organizing teeth on two Barack Obama campaigns is emerging as the latest rising star in Italian politics.Inside a week

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Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday’s new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source – Elon Musk . The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said earlier this week he