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TechCrunch Disruption 2023 It takes place in San Francisco on September 19-21 and – if you don’t know – it’s the startup world’s biggest tent. It attracts founders, investors, CEOs, technologists, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs. It’s where you’ll find inspiration, gain knowledge, make new connections, and find tools to help you build your business. An embarrassing, but helpful, plugin: Buy your passport now for significant savings. Prices will increase May 12 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Who doesn’t like to save money? Critical partners at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 We…

Wall Street The journal delves into the lab-grown meat industry, also known as cultured or cell-cultured meat, and the struggles within it. The Journal specifically reports on what’s going on at UPSIDE Foods, which has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a process that says it’s essentially safe to eat, making it the first company to receive that certification. . BlueJust, which has been selling its product in Singapore, the first country to approve the sale of farmed meat, subsequently received a “thumbs up” from the…

There are oodles. Having a diverse workforce has its benefits, but as Beta founder James Nash points out, you can’t simply take your homogenous workforce, add diversity, inspire and hope for the best. Often something subtle gets in the way of differentiation at startups: Companies initially rely on employee referrals, but if the startup makeup isn’t diverse, referrals won’t convert. That’s it for starters. In the world of venture capital, things are more nuanced: a warm introduction is the only way to get in front of investors at many VC…

Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and…

Welcome to Startups Weekly, this week’s spotlight on startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and co-host of Equity Natasha Maskerenhas To receive this in your inbox, subscribe over here. These days, the guiding principles of technology are not too hard to find: discipline, focus, and financial security. But I’ve always found those same focuses to be at odds with what it means to be an early-stage founder, laying out your vision: you have to have Elon Musk-level ambition, big dreams, and the ability to sell a company to investors.…

WWelcome to TechCrunch Exchange, the weekly startups and markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column from which it got its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Register here. Generative AI is not Just about creative efforts and parliamentary tricks. Investors and Big Tech alike are betting that it will disrupt enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity and putting their money where their mouths are. – Anna Dev tools and creative AI Y Combinator demo days are a strong indicator of trends that investors may be interested in –…

Identity management means making sure you have a driver’s license when you leave home, but it’s not that simple these days: identity is how we interact with the digital world, and identity services can take many forms (and unfortunately, abuse). I’m excited to host a TechCrunch Live event with Rick Song, Founder and CEO of Persona, one of the early movers in the space, to discuss how his company identified identity management as an opportunity. This TechCrunch Live event will be held at Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM…

OpenAI, the startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT, has closed its latest funding round of more than $10.3 billion, TechCrunch has learned. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global are among the filings seen by TechCrunch. The source told us that the Founders Fund is also investing. In total, VCs raised more than $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion. This comes alongside a larger investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year, a person familiar with the…

To get TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3pm PDT; Register here. In today’s episode of our Equity podcast, the team dives in to ponder whether First Republic’s share decline is a victim of SVB’s collapse, or whether there’s something else in the water. It’s worth a listen – as always! The other is unmissable today. JacquelineChina’s reaction to Binance.US’s $1.3 billion deal with Voyager to identify what’s going down while sailing. Have a great weekend, kids. Don’t do what we wouldn’t do.…