Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO
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Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are
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Mobile
At this point, SoftBank Group is really just its Vision Fund
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Rivian debuts a pull-out kitchen for its electric pickup trick
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Myneral.me wins the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech
It’s been a long night at VivaTech. The building hosted a very special competition — the TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris.
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Starbucks’ Chinese nemesis surges 20% in public debut
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DNA Script picks up $38.5 million to make DNA production faster and simpler
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Credder offers Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings for the news
In an age of online misinformation and clickbait, how do you know whether a publication is trustworthy? Startup Credder is
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Sometimes you need scrambled eggs. And with that thought, toady at the Overland Expo in Flagstaff, AZ, Rivian announced a
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Under the hood on Zoom’s IPO, with founder and CEO Eric Yuan
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read
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Fastly pops in public offering showing that there’s still money for tech IPOs
Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its
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