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Meet Visa, Mercury, Artisan, Golub Capital and more at TC Disrupt 2024
[[{“value”:” TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! This is the startup world’s main event, and it’s where you’ll find the knowledge, tools and connections you need to grow a successful business. Helping startups reach their full potential takes a global village, and we could not bring you […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
The Cadillac Optiq EV starts at $54,000 and is designed to hook young hipsters
[[{“value”:” Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out — or at least showing off — four all-electric vehicle models since 2022. The latest is the 2025 Optiq, a mid-size crossover that could finally snag the young, hipster customers […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Mental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B
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Google Chrome becomes a ‘picture-in-picture’ app
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Slingshot raises $2.2 million to provide financial services to artists
[[{“value”:” Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts. Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Firefly forges on after co-founder murdered by Hamas
[[{“value”:” A startup called Firefly that’s tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding. That comes on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenue fourfold in 2023. The firm’s latest success also comes on the heels of tragedy, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
[[{“value”:” Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Like other code-generating models, Codestral is designed to help developers write and interact with code. It was trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript, explains Mistral […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
[[{“value”:” Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund to now be called the Pinterest Inclusion Fund. Pinterest teamed up with Shopify’s Build Black and Build Native programs to allow small business owners who are from or who serve underrepresented backgrounds to now apply for the Creator Inclusion Fund. Previously, only traditional content […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Cadillac’s new Optiq EV is designed to hook young hipsters
[[{“value”:” Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out — or at least showing off — four all-electric vehicle models since 2022. The latest is the 2025 Optiq, a mid-size crossover that could finally snag the young, hipster customers […] © 2024 TechCrunch….