Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Oper8r, built by Winter Mead and Welly Sculley, wants to help new entrants in the VC world scale. The accelerator launched last year as a “Y Combinator for emerging fund managers,” built…
To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum. How will 5G impact in industrial IoT manufacturing implementations? Industry 4.0 will pave the way for more flexible, efficient and sustainable production lines in manufacturing facilities. In this scenario, 5G technology plays a key role as it is one of…
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a glimpse into what the future of work look like. Pre-pandemic, many more businesses had the idea that employees worked best when they were together in a building, each working the same hours in the same place—at least for the most part. However, one of the many lessons COVID forced…
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has reignited my love of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be once again fully onboard the MCU hype train. Ever since WandaVision concluded in early 2020, I’ve been struggling with a previously unfamiliar alignment: Marvel fatigue. While the first MCU Disney…
Astronomers have gotten their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The strange asteroid, named Kleopatra, was recently imaged in the most detail to date using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The image below shows the…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has certainly come a long way since it was first coined, purely as a concept, by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his time working with Procter&Gamble. Ashton, who was working in supply chain optimisation at the time, hoped to draw senior management’s attention to a new tech called RFID. Since…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone – Anna here, covering for Alex who’s enjoying some well-deserved but soon-ending vacation time.…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone – Anna here, covering for Alex who’s enjoying some well-deserved but soon-ending vacation time.…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone – Anna here, covering for Alex who’s enjoying some well-deserved but soon-ending vacation time.…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone – Anna here, covering for Alex who’s enjoying some well-deserved but soon-ending vacation time.…
