The direct-to-consumer mattress business has reportedly raised $100 million from Target, NEA and Norwest Venture Partners.
View More Mattress startup Casper said to be valued at $1.1B with new fundingCategory: New York
Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Read the first edition here. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch. Follow me on Twitter @kirstenkorosec to ensure you see it each week. […]
View More Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheelFlying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic
Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area’s elite.
View More Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass trafficGlossier triples valuation, enters unicorn club with $100M round
The direct-to-consumer beauty brand has secured new investment from Sequoia Capital at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
View More Glossier triples valuation, enters unicorn club with $100M roundIn big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentive
Yung Wu Contributor Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub. More posts by this contributor To actually change the world, Big Tech needs to grow up The cancellation of Amazon’s planned expansion in New York exposes the truth about its HQ2 promises. In the end, the company seemed mainly […]
View More In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentiveThis YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply as college curriculum often lags behind the fast-changing workplace. CareerTu, a New York-based startup launched by a former marketing manager at Amazon, aims to close […]
View More This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobsThe Juggernaut is a subscription media company for the South Asian diaspora
Everyone and their dog seems to have an email newsletter today, but what happens if and when yours takes off? Some have gone down the paid route, but another credible alternative is to turn it into a subscription media business. That’s a route that The Juggernaut, a new pay-to-play publication targeted at the Indian diaspora, […]
View More The Juggernaut is a subscription media company for the South Asian diasporaTaxing your privacy
Joe Apprendi Contributor Joe Apprendi is a general partner at Revel Partners. More posts by this contributor The new era in mobile Big data’s humble beginnings Data collection through mobile tracking is big business and the potential for companies helping governments monetize this data is huge. For consumers, protecting yourself against the who, what and […]
View More Taxing your privacyGlossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of Instagram-friendly ‘dialed-up’ beauty extras
Glossier Play, inspired by 70s’ nostalgia, steers away from the brand’s no makeup aesthetic with blue eyeliner, multi-purpose glitter gel and more.
View More Glossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of Instagram-friendly ‘dialed-up’ beauty extrasJupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy them
Whether it’s by flood, fire, or the fury of a storm, climate-related catastrophes are now impacting most cities and towns across the country. As these natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, cities and the businesses that reside in them are mobilizing to understand how best to prepare for the climatological challenges they’re going to […]
View More Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy themTransportation Weekly: Polestar CEO speaks, Tesla terminology, and a tribute
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch . This is the fourth edition of our newsletter, a weekly jaunt into the wonderful world of transportation and how we (and our packages) move. This week we chat with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, dig into Lyft’s S-1, take note […]
View More Transportation Weekly: Polestar CEO speaks, Tesla terminology, and a tributeWeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employees
The well-funded co-working giant says the cuts were perfunctory. The company plans to add an additional 6,000 employees in 2019.
View More WeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employees