It’s official: Better.com is going public
We didn’t think we’d see the day. Digital mortgage lender Better.com’s proposal to combine with Aurora Acquisition Corp. via a SPAC (special purpose acquisition) has...
Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight
Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated workers across his companies, and...
The civil rights movement comes to venture capital
The Fearless Fund lawsuit highlights what the lack of funding to Black founders has always been: a civil rights issue Dominic-Madori Davis 9 hours For...
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried bail revoked ahead of October trial
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, had his bail revoked ahead of his October trial, US District Court Judge Lewis...
When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Fri-yay indeed. We sigh, as humans spool up to take...
Startup founders should care more about Serve Robotics’ listing
We love mergers and acquisitions here at TechCrunch. We even kind of like reverse mergers. But this latest development in the robotics industry sure has...
ByteDance again looks to TikTok to promote its other social app, Lemon8
TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8, another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from...
Fintech is a mess. Is BaaS the outlier?
Amid M&A, layoffs and regulatory struggles, experts are still bullish It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the banking-as-a-service sector over the last year, with a...
US cyber board to investigate Microsoft hack of government emails
A U.S. review board tasked with investigating major cybersecurity incidents said it will begin looking at the recent intrusion of U.S. government email systems provided...
The MOVEit mass hacks hold a valuable lesson for the software industry
It’s time to move it and protect against the next mass hack The MOVEit mass hacks will likely go down in history as one of...