In this week’s newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.
View More Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSWCategory: Lora Dicarlo
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View More Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plansCES and its sex tech fail
We’re coming to you with another episode of Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that takes a peek behind the headlines that go beyond tech. This week, Megan Rose Dickey and I get into a discussion about women’s sexuality, because the world’s biggest “consumer electronics show” revoked an innovation award from Lora DiCarlo, a company that created […]
View More CES and its sex tech failA sex toy for women won and then was stripped of a CES 2019 award
Startup Lora DiCarlo is raising awareness for gender bias at CES after their sex toy was selected as a CES 2019 Innovation Awards honoree, only to be disqualified because the product was seen as “immoral.” But now officials say it never qualified for …
View More A sex toy for women won and then was stripped of a CES 2019 award