Podcast Episodes

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to w…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more

It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives. Also, iRocket is aiming to hit the publ…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI

LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel

All-electric truck fleet startup Nevoya has landed a fresh round of capital and plans to expand.

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone

DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection. In other news, less than a week a…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup

RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here's the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund's money.

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

Startup Mixus has built an AI agent platform that not only keeps humans in the workflow, but also allows those humans to interact with agents directl…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

Cursor-maker Anysphere is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in an effort to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions

Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, outlined what she looks for in a pitch, during a presentation at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston.

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday…

8 months, 3 weeks ago