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Hellooooo, Crunchers! Weâre back for another round of tech news from your very favorite news site. Itâs been a busy news day, and Haje is on deadline trying to finish this weekâs pitch deck teardown, so letâs not dilly-dally and get right to it! â Christine and Haje |
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The TechCrunch Top 3 - Like a student debt Superman: Candidly, a company that helps financial institutions and employers embed student debt and savings optimization products into employee benefits, swoops in with $20.5 million in new funding to pick up student debt relief where new U.S. policies leave off. Christine has more.
- Draw to your little heartâs content: Devin powers up reMarkableâs e-paper tablet and examined every inch to bring you a product review worthy of getting rid of paper for good.
- Then I saw your game, and now Iâm a Believer: Believer scored $55 million in new funding from big names in venture capital, like Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz, to focus on a new approach to multiplayer gaming that Ingrid writes will start with âoriginal IP and stories âwhere player choices matter.ââ
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Startups and VC The economy is a bit better â kind of, maybe, sort of? While things appear to be trending in the right direction, itâs going to be a long road. Besides, if youâre unable to find work, positive macroeconomic trends are cold comfort. One of the nice things Brian enjoys about having a platform like TechCrunch is the opportunity to help people in that difficult position â so here is a list of robotics companies that are hiring. The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls âresponsible generative AI,â Paul writes. Here’s another fistful: |
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As the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, illustrates, our brittle legacy supply chains are long overdue for an overhaul. Autonomous vehicle startup Gatik operates approximately 40 driverless heavy-duty semitrailer trucks on routes up to 300 miles long, connecting distribution centers with smaller hubs. Rebecca Bellan interviewed Gatik CEO and co-founder Gautam Narang to learn more about the company’s operations and investor expectations, and how a shortage of human drivers is impacting growth. “We have not done any free delivery ever,” he says. “So we have been doing commercial deliveries since 2019, meaning every trip that we have made, we have been paid for.â Three more from the TC+ team: TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code âDCâ for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Read More |
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