Seedstars, Fondation Botnar launch new fund to back African startups focused on youth wellbeing
Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment mandate targeting early-stage startups in Africa that...
Mercedes jumps into the ChatGPT fray and Toyota plays catch-up
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We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear...
How You.com plans to combat Google’s search dominance
Founder Richard Socher's research helped set stage for today's AI leaps You.com CEO Richard Socher may not be a household name, but if you travel...
Mojocare investors uncover financial irregularities, unsustainable business model
Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the health and wellness startup and are move to scale down its operations, they said in a statement...
Edtech unicorn PhysicsWallah acquires Xylem in regional expansion push
PhysicsWallah has acquired Xylem Learning as the Indian edtech unicorn pushes to cement its presence in the southern regions of India, TechCrunch has learned and...
Reddit’s CEO lashes out, Twitter gets evicted, and NYC delivery workers get a pay raise
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The UK hasn’t lost its appeal for venture capital
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Venture debt works for asset managers after all
Blackstone last August was looking to put $2 billion toward lending to startups and tech companies, according to The Information. But venture debt lenders remain...
Sample seed pitch deck: Netmaker’s $2.3M deck
In a world where people working from home still need access to networks and a ton of other use cases, Netmaker lets users create and...