July 6, 2021
To stay ahead of your competitors, start building your narrative on day one
Having a unique product used to give you at least a few months of lead time over other players, but that advantage seems to matter less and less…
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July 6, 2021
Nextdoor’s SPAC investor deck paints a picture of sizable scale and sticky users
The SPAC parade continues in this shortened week with news that community social network Nextdoor will go public via a blank-check company. The unicorn will merge with Khosla…
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Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response
The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and complexity of disasters worldwide. Just in the past few weeks, we have…
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What I learned the hard way from naming 30+ startups
Drew Beechler Contributor Share on Twitter Drew Beechler is the director of marketing at High Alpha, a venture studio that creates and funds B2B SaaS companies. There’s a…
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Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract
After several years of fighting and jockeying for position by the biggest cloud infrastructure companies in the world, the Pentagon finally pulled the plug on the controversial winner-take-all,…
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Allozymes looks to upend chemical manufacturing with rapid enzyme engineering and $5M seed
Part of the complex process that turns raw materials into finished products like detergents, cosmetics and flavors relies on enzymes, which facilitate chemical transformations. But finding the right…
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Box takes fight with activist investor public in SEC filing
The war between Box’s current leadership and activist shareholder Starboard took a new turn today with a detailed timeline outlining the two groups’ relationship, thanks to an SEC filing and…
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Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn execs
Super.mx, an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million in a Series A round led by ALLVP. Co-founded in 2019 by a trio of former…
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Will Didi’s regulatory problems make it harder for Chinese startups to go public in the US?
Shares of Chinese ride-hailing business Didi are off 22% this morning after the company was hit by more regulatory activity over the holiday weekend. The recently public company…
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Didi gets hit by Chinese government, and Pleo raises $150M
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday Tuesday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest…
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