The venture fundraising trend in 2024 is fairly clear by now: Large, established VC firms are continuing to attract capital from limited partners, while smaller, newer funds are finding it more difficult to raise.  But Industry Ventures’ latest fundraise should offer a dash of good news for emerging managers. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old firm announced […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Samyr Laine and Ayanna Alexander-Laine now put their grit and determination to work for founders wanting to launch and scale consumer brands.
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Electricity demand is booming on account of AI. In a May 2024 report, Goldman Sachs predicted that data centers will use 8% of the U.S.’s total power supply by 2030, up from 3% in 2022, as cloud service providers expand to meet the demand for AI infrastructure. Assuming the current trend holds, U.S. utilities will need to […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The amount of waste produced by the construction industry adds up to more than a third of the overall waste produced each year in the European Union. And it’s no better in the U.S. Stateside, the construction industry produces more than double the waste that households do each year. Sensorita wants to help the construction […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Boldhue’s device essentially scans your face and dispenses a customized foundation formula that matches your skin tone.
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Unacademy is slashing another 250 jobs in latest round of cuts as Indian edtech sector continues to struggle.Q
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few weeks with extended support for multiple new languages across the lock screen, Siri, keyboard, and search on iOS 18. With the new update, you can now customize the lock screen […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic’s program will dole out grants to third-party organizations that can, as the company puts it in a blog post, “effectively […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the senators implicated both the partners and investors of the company as being responsible for missing customer funds. In a letter shared publicly on Monday, U.S. […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. I hope everyone has a fantastic July 4 this week. Go eat a hot dog. Read my story from last week on the causes of Starliner’s additional delay and what it might mean for Boeing’s Starliner program. Want to reach out with a tip? Email Aria at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.