The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Daily Crunch: London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A [1013d]
• The ‘ideal runway’ is a myth, isn’t it? [1013d]
• Mighty Capital’s thesis is that the best product wins — even more so in a downturn [1013d]
• Triller settles lawsuit with Timbaland and Swizz Beatz [1013d]
• Instagram Stories under 60 seconds are no longer broken up into clips [1013d]
• How a pivot helped HopSkipDrive emerge successful in a sector where many failed [1014d]
• Byju’s clears $230 million payment to Blackstone for $1 billion Aakash deal [1014d]
• How Blaseball’s fantasy sports fever dream is embracing the future [1014d]
• Smaller Dreamforce still comes up big in first live meeting in three years [1014d]
• GM invests in Canadian battery recycler to fight supply shortage [1014d]
• FTX, Uniswap and Visa talk blockchain economy and opportunity at Disrupt [1014d]
• The case for US venture capital outperformance [1014d]
• TechCrunch+ roundup: LatAm startup strength, global chip shortage, Visa Bulletin update [1014d]
• Declining VC investment into LatAm startups could throttle digital growth [1014d]
• Volkswagen and Belgian utility giant partner on vehicle-to-grid energy storage [1014d]
• TikTok is releasing its comment dislike button to all users worldwide [1014d]
• The $5.6B epicenter of Ford’s EV effort is now under construction [1014d]
• When VCs fund the thing you didn’t think they’d ever fund [1014d]
• A guide to Low Power Mode on the Apple Watch [1014d]
• Arjun Sethi’s crypto derivatives protocol Nibiru raises maiden funding at $100M valuation [1014d]
• A Strava co-founder races into a lucrative market – lending against life insurance [1014d]
• Tesla countersues civil rights agency behind racial bias suit [1014d]
• Italy fires Meta urgent request for info re: election interference measures [1014d]
• UK mini budget: Government to boost gigabit broadband by easing access to infrastructure on private land [1014d]
• Kenyan startup Ponea gaining momentum in driving access to medical services [1014d]
• SerMorpheus wants to make NFTs an everyday sight in Indonesia [1014d]
• Backed by Epic Games, distributed computing startup Hadean nabs $30M to power the metaverse [1014d]
• Breaking Bad creator is making a new show for Apple TV+ with Rhea Seehorn [1014d]
• Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion [1014d]
• Rad Power Bikes and Cycle pilot consumer e-bike subscriptions [1014d]
• On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better [1014d]