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Good to have you with us again, as the TechCrunch train continues to rumble along the tracks. Itâs gonna be a fun and busy week, so letâs dive straight in with the news! â Christine and Haje |
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The TechCrunch Top 3 - Last to know: VideoLAN, maker of the popular media player VLC, sent a legal notice to some of Indiaâs ministries alleging that they banned its website without informing the company it was going to do so. Manish has more.
- âThe next Mark Zuckerberg?â: Two Stanford dropouts created Fizz, which Amanda describes as âthe anonymous, college-only, Reddit-like social appâ that helps you stay connected should your alternative pandemic communication options fail you.
- Itâs here, itâs here!: The Google iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets are starting to roll out, enabling users to put widgets on the Lock Screen of their iPhone, Sarah writes.
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Startups and VC John Curtius, the prolific Tiger Global senior partner who has been at the center of some of the firmâs biggest deals in the last several years, is leaving the firm, Ingrid writes. He will be leaving to start his own firm, which will concentrate investments from Series A to Series C. Curtius will stay with Tiger until June. In the broadest of strokes, the circular economy represents a colossal shift in how humanity makes and uses stuff. Instead of primarily harvesting raw materials to produce goods that wind up incinerated, or in oceans or landfills, the circular economy offers an alternative where stuff is deliberately reused, repaired and recycled over and over again. Harri reports that Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. The effort is Googleâs latest to help environmentally focused startups grow while potentially hooking them on its cloud products in the process. In other news: |
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After the pandemic drove students at every level into remote learning, the edtech sector saw record levels of investment â until the public markets began to cool off several months ago. “That said, itâs important to remember that publicly traded value represents a fraction of the overall edtech sector,” found Dealroom edtech analyst Carla Napoleão and Rhys Spence, head of research at Brighteye Ventures. In a detailed report that studies both the public and private markets, the duo looked at global deal flow, trends in subsectors like Kâ12 and corporate learning, and recent M&A activity. “Edtech still has deep and untapped opportunities. The markets may have slowed, but it wonât be long until the momentum returns.” But wait, thereâs more! 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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