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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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