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Daily Crunch: 7 months after raising $1B, grocery delivery Gorillas exits four countries and lays off 300

Daily Crunch: 7 months after raising $1B, grocery deliv...

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Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as first chief taste consultant

Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as f...

She will also be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond...

A single question changed how Singularity viewed its market

A single question changed how Singularity viewed its ma...

One conversation with a customer changed how Wenbo Shi viewed his product and, u...

Shellworks wants to crack makeup’s single-use plastic problem

Shellworks wants to crack makeup’s single-use plastic p...

Is the beauty industry ready to wean itself off single-use plastic? Shellworks i...

Questions arise on Y Combinator’s role in startup correction

Questions arise on Y Combinator’s role in startup corre...

Some are pointing the finger not just at late-stage capital pools that poured to...

Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from bo...

My third startup had been in the market only a year when the internet bubble bur...

Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by a16z

Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sp...

In a classic “pivot-to-crypto-to-reinvent-yourself” moment, controversial WeWork...

Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist A...

It’s Demo Day time! Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist, the enterprise-...

Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NFT projects spot scams

Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NF...

As NFTs have gained popularity, so, too, has NFT fraud. Copycats can quite easil...

Nowports streamlines LatAm’s shipping to deliver a $1.1B valuation

Nowports streamlines LatAm’s shipping to deliver a $1.1...

Nowports, an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $1...

SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own ...

Preql wants to put business users in charge of their data

Preql wants to put business users in charge of their data

Preql founders Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss were data engineers in the early days ...

Hugging Face collaborates with Microsoft for new AI-powered Azure service

Hugging Face collaborates with Microsoft for new AI-pow...

Fresh off a $100 million funding round, Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI s...

Prequl wants to put business users in charge of their data

Prequl wants to put business users in charge of their data

Prequl founders Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss were data engineers in the early days...

NeuraLight aims to track ALS, Parkinson’s and more with an ordinary webcam

NeuraLight aims to track ALS, Parkinson’s and more with...

The process of diagnosing and tracking the progression of neurological disorders...

Your investor has an investment thesis. Here’s why you should care

Your investor has an investment thesis. Here’s why you ...

A lot of the time, it doesn't matter how good your company is. What matters is w...