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Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies

Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year.

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Seso is building software to fix farm workforces and solve agriculture’s HR woes

Migrant workers are a critical labor force for U.S. farms, but getting them here on proper H-2A visas can be complicated, and the compliance surrounding these employees is taxing for farms. Seso was founded five years ago to help streamline that process and now looks to expand into a one-stop-shop HR platform for the agriculture […]

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Autism Impact Fund closes $60M first fund and broadens its scope

AIF still has resources in its first fund to do a “handful” more deals as well as follow-on investments.

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Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is one step closer to cracking the traditional egg market

Onego Bio claims Bioalbumen is “bioidentical” to ovalbumin, which is the major protein in chicken egg white.

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Sam Altman gives up control of OpenAI Startup Fund, resolving unusual corporate venture structure

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has transferred formal control of the eponymously firm’s named corporate venture fund to Ian Hathaway, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.  The OpenAI Startup Fund, launched in 2021, was initially set up with Altman as its named controller. The arrangement could have presented a major issue to the company if he had not […]

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Why Trump’s digital media company is different from other money-losing startups

Former president Donald Trump’s digital media company is losing money, and lots of it. But why is that any different from other “startups,” which often struggle to post a profit for years, if they ever do? There are a couple reasons. First, as a recap: Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) recently merged with Digital […]

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TechCrunch Minute: Amazon bets $4B on Anthropic’s success

The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items. To understand what I mean, ask yourself how long you spent considering the fact that Amazon put another $2.75 billion into Anthropic AI last week. Right? We’ve become inured to the capital influx that is now common in AI, even as the headline numbers […]

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Ads on Discord, AT&T passcode resets and podcast changes for Android users

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Monday show, where we dig into the weekend and take a peek at the week that is to come. We’ll talk more about it Wednesday, but this is Y Combinator […]

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GGV Capital is no more, as partners announce two separate brands

The VCs who long ran GGV Capital have settled on two new brands, roughly six months after announcing they would split their U.S. and Asia operations.

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Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT, subscribe here.  The big […]

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