Month: February 2020
Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2)
The once-polarizing world of open-source software has recently become one of the hotter destinations for VCs. As the popularity of open source increases among organizations and developers, startups in the space have reached new heights and monstrous valuations. Over the past several years, we’ve seen surging open-source companies like Databricks…
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Porsche NA CEO Klaus Zellmer is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
The name Porsche has been synonymous with gas-powered high performance sports cars and racing for nearly three quarters of a century. Now, the sports car manufacturer that is owned by Volkswagen Group, is trying to build a new legacy starting with its first all-electric vehicle, the Porsche Taycan. Porsche has…
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Spotify needed a huge podcast, and it just bought one of the biggest
Spotify continued to prove it’s serious about dominating the podcast industry with an announcement today that it acquired The Ringer, a media company known both for its culture website and massive podcast operation headlined by The Bill Simmons Podcast. Now, Simmons’ show might instead anchor Spotify’s expanding podcast empire. The…
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Building a search tool for state court data and analytics, Trellis adds Alon Shwartz as co-founder
Trellis Research, the Los Angeles based startup building out a search and analytics tool for state court data, hasn raised $4.4 million in a new round of funding, and added Alon Shwartz as a technical co-founder. Shwartz will take over product design as the company’s chief product officer, joining Nicole…
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Superhuman and Eventjoy founders announce $7 million angel fund
Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra and Eventjoy founder Todd Goldberg confirmed Wednesday that they had closed their first fund, which they are very accurately titling, “The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund.” TechCrunch reported back in October that Vohra and Goldberg were shopping a pitch deck around to potential LPs.…
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Google Chrome will crack down on crappy video ads this August, which isn’t as altruistic as it sounds
The web may soon have fewer crappy, mandatory video ads for you to endure. This August, Google’s Chrome web browser will start blocking long, “non-skippable” preroll ads, ads that block a big chunk of your video, and ads that interrupt your videos in the middle, if the video you’re watching…
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