Day: February 2, 2023

To get TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3pm PST; Register here. On the one hand, Punxsutawney Phil might be upset that he sees his shadow, but the sun hasn’t risen in days where Christine lives, so she’s pretty pissed off that wherever Phil lives there’s a ray of sunshine or two. In other news, Hajee had to move house due to a flooded apartment, the weather is real, and maybe it’s time to start taking climate change seriously. Meanwhile, for today’s Black…

There’s no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing recession. The latest numbers confirm what we’ve all suspected for some time. But two things are true: 1) rest is temporary; And 2) while robotics doesn’t guarantee failure, construction can. This is of course a late theme – while other robotics categories struggle to grow, those in construction seem relatively unaffected. New York-based Toggle announced this morning that it has added another $3 million to its coffers as part of its “Series A Extension.” The…

61% of SaaS companies will use UBP in some form by 2022 Usage Based Pricing (UBP) It’s on the rise – 61% of SaaS companies will use this model in some form by 2022, according to VC firm OpenView. UBP involves paying based on how the service or product is consumed, not how many people are using it; It is a seat based approach. But often in pricing, things are more nuanced, and many companies are actually using integrated models. Consider Zapier, for example: it offers subscription tiers that include…

Most of them Pitch Deck’s tears to date (here’s a list of the 30+ we’ve published so far) have raised institutional funding rounds, typically in the millions or tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars. Those are fun to see, but of course I know many of you will be very early in your journey. I’ve been looking for a good example of an angel deck to share with you, and I found that in Laoshi’s angel deck. The company told me it had budgeted $570,000 to $5 million for…

Samoha, a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration platform, announced today that it has raised $12.5 million in funding from Altimeter Capital and Snowflake Ventures, among others. CEO Kamakishi Sivaramakrishnan said the cash infusion — Samoha’s first — will go toward product development and hiring. The plan is to grow the startup team from 14 developers to about 20 by the end of the year. So, you might be wondering what exactly does Samoha do? In short, the platform enables businesses to securely share, collaborate and gain insights from their…

Onehouse emerged last year as a cloud data lake product built on the open source Apache Hudi project. Rather than competing directly with big data lake providers like Snowflake and Databrick, the startup wants to act as an integration layer to move data between different repositories. Today, the company raised $25 million in Series A. The company’s founder and CEO Vinot Chander came up with the idea for Hoodie in 2016 when he was an engineer at Uber and eventually decided to start a company based on an open source…