How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups | TechCrunch
…The board was also aware that the customer could cancel before paying the full contract amount. The obvious problem with using CARR and calling it ARR is that it is far more…
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Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home | TechCrunch
…board had approved a draft prospectus for an initial public offering that would include a fresh issue of up to 270 million shares, according to a stock exchange filing. The announcements also…
TechCrunch Mobility: Lime's IPO gamble | TechCrunch
…EV startup Slate has lost a notable board member. The head of Jeff Bezos’ family office left the board , according to numerous state filings reviewed by TechCrunch. Volkswagen is now Rivian ’s…
OpenAI's cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch
…These include OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI founder and president Greg Brockman, former OpenAI chief scientist (now founder of his own AI startup) Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI board member and Quora…
Coinbase’s new tool can help agents trade and pay for premium research | TechCrunch
…Coinbase added that it will soon add support for custom limits such as maximum trade size, which services the agent can interact with, and how much it can spend. Coinbase is taking…
The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees | TechCrunch
…Carlsten said she expects to have compute clusters deployed for several customers by the end of the year. Other startups, like the inference cloud General Compute, have bigger ambitions—the company announced…
OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic | TechCrunch
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival…
How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers | TechCrunch
…When he was ready to start a new company, a16z’s Speedrun was eager to get on board, according to partner Andrew Chen, who told TechCrunch that Poon worked through several ideas…
Blue Origin plans to launch New Glenn again this year after explosion | TechCrunch
…Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company had completely shifted focus to this program in order to support those missions, announcing in January that it was pausing space tourism flights on the much smaller New…
Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force | TechCrunch
…military’s space efforts, told TechCrunch. “Right now we have gaps in our collection capability.” The June mission saw Rocket Lab , a rocket-building rival to SpaceX that recently announced its acquisition…