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Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Reading recently about Germany’s €30 billion plan for its startups, I was intrigued. Did the country start to envy La French Tech? Is it…
It’s been a week of people trying to make sense of what’s happening in tech. If you’ve been compartmentalizing: Cheers! Now let me walk you through what’s been going on. On Monday, WeWork founder Adam Neumann raised a seed round from Andreessen Horowitz for a new real estate company, reportedly at an over $1 billion…
John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat…
John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded Id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat…
“Venture capital” is semantically equivalent to “dangerous money,” which is part of its mystique. Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. And sometimes, a massive pile of investor cash burns so brightly, it gets picked up on satellites. But where does all that…
Legal reform body for England and Wales says digital assets are personal property Dr. Adam Sanitt Contributor Dr. Adam Sanitt is a Knowledge Director specializing in financial disputes, technology and innovation at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. There is a major earthquake happening in the sphere of digital assets, which is expected to create…
Sofy, a startup developing a testing platform for mobile app devs it claims is used by Microsoft, today closed a $7.75 million seed round that brings its total capital raised to $9.5 million. Voyager Capital led the tranche with participation from PSL Ventures, GTMFund and Revolution, providing cash that CEO Syed Hamid says will be…
Longevity-focused startups have been proliferating in recent years as we become more focused on our health. However, it’s not just about apps to get you in the gym. Longevity startups can range from biotech-oriented disease prevention to organ regeneration. The Aging Analytics Agency estimates that global investments in longevity-focused startups hit more than $40 billion…
Daniel Faloppa Contributor Daniel Faloppa founded Equidam after completing his M.Sc. in Finance and Investments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with the goal of making valuations less problematic for entrepreneurs and investors. A new day, a new interest rate hike. A few serious faces from the Fed have announced that they will do…
