The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Found’s Swathy Prithivi and Atomic’s Jordan Kong on TechCrunch Live [1144d]
• Daily Crunch: Kurtosis raises $20M Series A to give web3 developers ‘a place to play around’ [1144d]
• Lyft rides post-COVID recovery to record earnings, but faces inflationary headwinds [1144d]
• HBO, HBO Max and Discovery+ report a combined total of 92.1M subscribers, plans for major restructuring [1144d]
• Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users [1144d]
• The road map for building the Uber of climate tech [1144d]
• How to watch and what to expect at the Tesla ‘Cyber Roundup’ annual meeting [1144d]
• Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy backs Terabase’s robot-built solar farms [1144d]
• Meta’s threat report highlights clumsy attempt to manipulate Ukraine discourse [1144d]
• Sometimes, stealing crypto is the moral choice [1144d]
• Clubhouse begins beta testing private communities called ‘Houses’ to foster curated interactions [1144d]
• Patreon CEO Jack Conte is fed up with Instagram and Facebook [1144d]
• UAE aims to convert oil wealth into tech prowess [1144d]
• 6 first-time funds see an advantage in entering a downturn without a large portfolio [1144d]
• Beat tomorrow’s deadline and apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 [1144d]
• 6 first-time fund managers detail how they’re preparing to thrive during the downturn [1144d]
• On Deck lays off a third of staff after cutting a quarter just months prior [1144d]
• Fish and CHIPs [1144d]
• Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 million seed deck [1144d]
• VW will roll out a cheaper 2023 ID. 4 EV this fall [1144d]
• Amazon Prime Video launches local service in Nigeria [1144d]
• 3 steps tech companies can take to avoid ‘greenwashing’ accusations [1144d]
• Play now, pay later: Halliday bags $6M seed round led by a16z [1144d]
• Let’s check in with Samsung before next week’s Unpacked event [1144d]
• Investors cheer Coinbase’s new partnerships and attempts to reignite growth [1144d]
• Pakistan central bank orders fintech Tag to refund customers [1144d]
• A new app called Banish blocks those annoying ‘open in app’ banners [1144d]
• From NDA to LOI: What really happens when your startup is being acquired? [1144d]
• Meet the final five Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners [1144d]
• Ghost Security emerges from stealth to defend APIs and apps from attackers [1144d]
• BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up [1144d]
• Meta is expanding NFT support on Instagram to 100 countries [1144d]
• SoundCloud will reduce its workforce by around 20%, blaming the weak economic environment [1144d]
• Digital marketplace Clutch closes $1.2M pre-seed round led by Precursor Ventures [1144d]
• Twitter now lets all businesses display location and contact info on their profiles [1144d]
• Startups have to pay back all that equity compensation someday [1144d]
• Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX [1144d]
• Gilead Sciences to acquire Oxford University biotech spinout MiroBio for $405M [1144d]
• Paramount+ grows to 43 million subscribers as other streaming services fall short [1144d]
• Kontempo lands fresh capital amid the boom for B2B BNPL [1144d]
• European EV rental startup UFODrive launches in San Francisco [1144d]
• Former Palantir engineers raise $20M to simplify web3 tooling [1144d]
• Mosey secures fresh capital to help companies comply with payroll rules [1144d]
• Kakao says emoji subscription purchases fell by a third due to Google’s new in-app policy [1144d]
• Tutanota cries antitrust foul over Microsoft Teams blocking sign-ups for its email users [1144d]
• Club Feast quietly pivoted to catering and left its consumer customers in a lurch [1144d]
• Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round [1144d]
• Samsung brings Amazon Luna games to its smart TVs and monitors [1144d]
• Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk [1144d]
• Toyota-backed robotaxi unicorn Pony.ai sues ex-employees over trade secrets [1145d]
• India withdraws personal data bill that alarmed tech giants [1145d]
• Walmart cuts 200 corporate employees, says it will continue hiring in ‘key areas’ [1145d]