Windows 365 and the Coming Abyss in the PC Market
Given the impact of persistent inflation on IT spending, Microsoft’s cloud-based operating system Windows 365 may soon become much more appealing. The revenue impact of this could be devastating for
Puzzle is building a modern accounting package for today’s API-enabled startups
A company starting from scratch today is probably going to use a stack of financial software with the most modern fintech tools. These could be things like Stripe for payments, Brex for corporate credit cards and
Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services
Pydantic, the popular python Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most
Consumers find chatbots disappointing, but that won’t harm adoption
A lot’s changed since Tay. The advent of AI tech like ChatGPT dramatically improved the chatbot experience, showing that chatbots aren’t necessarily destined to deliver underwhelming back-and-forth conversations.
Paramount+ reaches 56M subs, raises prices as it combines with Showtime
Following the major integration of Showtime into Paramount+ two weeks ago, Paramount reported its quarterly earnings this morning, announcing that Paramount+ gained 9.9 million subscribers in Q4 to bring the total
Planetarians grabs $6M to get its plant-based protein into foodservice orbit
A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians, a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau and chef
Zerocater raises $15M as demand heats up for flexible in-office food services
Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the day when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) — was growing at a fast clip and gobbling up new customers for its office meal delivery service before
5 buyer red flags to look for during the M&A process
Marina Martianova Contributor Share on Twitter Marina Martianova, founder and CEO of Seamm, is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first startup at the age of 21. The global mergers and acquisitions market
Former Amazon, Starbucks exec launches Yelp-like platform to review and discover NFTs
Amid signs of life in the NFT market, an NFT-focused startup, Thred, launched today to help users discover new collections, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “We think of it like a Yelp, Tripadvisor or Zillow
Lightspeed backs CommandK’s mission to become the go-to enterprise security command center
CommandK, a startup offering a dedicated platform to manage enterprise security, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed. Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API