Category: TC
Daily Crunch: T-Mobile confirms ‘highly sophisticated cyberattack’ affecting 47M customer accounts
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 18, 2021! Good news up top: A big welcome to Kate Park, who recently joined the TechCrunch family. She’s…
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Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?
Databricks, the open-source data lake and data management powerhouse has been on quite a financial run lately. Today Bloomberg reported the company could be raising a new round worth at least $1.5 billion at an otherworldly $38 billion valuation. That price tag is up $10 billion from its last fundraise…
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How to establish a health tech startup advisory board
Patrick Frank Contributor Patrick Frank is the co-founder and COO of PatientPartner, a platform that connects pre-surgical patients with fully recovered patients who went through the same surgery. Frank has worked in consumer technology across industries including retail banking, law, real estate and healthcare. When you enter the health tech…
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What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?
Navin Chaddha Contributor Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. More posts by this contributor Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries The renaissance of silicon will create industry giants Sam Lessin’s post in The…
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Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear…
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Blumira raises $10.3M Series A to bring cloud-based SIEM to mid-market companies
Blumira today announced it raised a $10.3 million Series A financing round. The Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity company says the capital will be used to expand its product offering, double its headcount to 80 employees, and grow its partnership program with managed service providers. The company, founded in 2018, seeks to…
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