Exclusive: Goodwater Capital snags $1B across two new funds, despite broader cooling interest in consumer tech
Goodwater, one of comparatively few firms to focus exclusively on consumer tech investments, has closed on $1 billion in capital commitments across its fifth early-stage...
Snap’s revenue woes continue but earnings yield a few bright spots
Snap just reported its quarterly earnings and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Snapchat’s parent company brought in $1.07 billion during Q2 — up...
How to prevent an ‘operational catastrophe’
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Amazon will now warn consumers of recalls and product safety alerts related to their orders
Amazon today introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to be better informed about potential product safety alerts and recalls. Now, instead of having...
Spotify CEO teases potential AI-powered capabilities surrounding personalization, ads
During the company’s second-quarter earnings call this morning, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek teased a few ways the streaming service could introduce additional AI-powered functionality. Ek...
Akhetonics raises capital for its All-Optical processor prototype
Traditional processors from the likes of Intel, AMD, or Nvidia have well-known limitations around speed, energy efficiency, and electromagnetic interference. For instance, foundational chip makers...
Zombie game maker Techland joins Tencent’s global empire in latest acquisition
Tencent, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, is set to gobble up Techland, the Polish game developer known for open-world zombie games like Dying...
Blue Origin, Astrobotic, Varda Space and others win NASA funding to develop advanced space tech
NASA awarded new funding to eleven companies today for advanced space tech projects ranging from advanced power generation on the lunar surface to additive manufacturing...
OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many...
TechCrunch+ Roundup: Traction slide help, climate tech homework, Euro cannabis investor survey
A killer traction slide needs as much favorable customer and market data as you can gather, such as recurring revenue, customer acquisition cost and conversion...