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2021

November

2021-11-29: Some notes on crypto, capitalism, climate change and antitrust (Homepage)
2021-11-16: Danny Crichton joins Lux Capital as head of editorial (Lux Capital)

October

2021-10-31: The Bowery Farming TC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-28: Crafting a pitch deck that can’t be ignored (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-27: Divining the future of VC, saying goodbye to Danny (TechCrunch)
2021-10-20: NerdWallet, Gen Z and the value of the written word (TechCrunch)
2021-10-19: The Automattic TC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-10-16: LinkedOut (TechCrunch)
2021-10-13: How to sell clothes online and actually make money (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: Everything is accelerating in the exponential age (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: The dark side of environmentalism (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: How culturally deranged is our climate today? (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: It’s a big moment for climate change. Here are 4 books for autumn to understand what’s changing (TechCrunch)
2021-10-06: The metaverse is coming for Squid Game (TechCrunch)
2021-10-06: Getting the details right in your pitch deck (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-04: As Apple messes with attribution, what does growth marketing look like in 2021? (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-02: Why did the Zoom-Five9 deal eat %#*& and die? (TechCrunch)

September

2021-09-29: Finding fraud in a world of fast-moving deals (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: Microsoft wants cloud computing to reshape natural disaster modeling, but challenges remain (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: How technology is transforming organ procurement (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: As inflation fears spike, 1build raises $14M to help construction firms optimize their cost estimates (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: Freshworks, Toast go public and we have Takes (TechCrunch)
2021-09-16: Submit your pitch deck now for live feedback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 next week (TechCrunch)
2021-09-15: Why bringing you emergency toothpaste could be big business (TechCrunch)
2021-09-13: The Equity crew riffs on the Intuit-Mailchimp news (TechCrunch)
2021-09-12: With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon (TechCrunch)
2021-09-12: Should we care about the lives of our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’… (TechCrunch)
2021-09-11: What’s happening in venture law in 2021? (TechCrunch)
2021-09-10: Data remains a vital part of the marketing world (TechCrunch)
2021-09-09: With $55M third fund, Scout Ventures is funding veterans ready to tackle the hardest technical challenges (TechCrunch)
2021-09-08: TikTok, influencers on the clock (TechCrunch)
2021-09-08: Forerunner is software for NFIMBYs, or no flooding in my backyard (TechCrunch)

August

2021-08-28: How national security is being redefined by climate change (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: On the future of walls, or The Wall (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Air conditioning is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. It’s also killing the 21st (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Now that summer is forever, here are 6 books on climate change to sharpen your intuitions and models (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Bill Gates offers direction, not solutions (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Is the best way to solve climate change to “do nothing?” (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Can the world really just fall apart? (TechCrunch)
2021-08-27: As 5G demand grows, Sitenna helps telcos find more cell tower locations, faster (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: Politico sells, Forbes SPACs and Vice cuts (TechCrunch)
2021-08-25: OnlyFans’ policy change is a tale as old as the internet (TechCrunch)
2021-08-23: With more cash and a launch, Vannevar Labs is reconnecting Silicon Valley to its defense industry roots (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: Men are a niche demographic (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: California’s gig worker Prop 22 ruled unconstitutional by superior court (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation) (TechCrunch)
2021-08-19: Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities (TechCrunch)
2021-08-18: FloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home (TechCrunch)
2021-08-18: The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to (TechCrunch)
2021-08-17: informed., you want to be? Trio of European media veterans take on the problem of news economics (TechCrunch)
2021-08-13: Don’t give your weed dealer all your data (TechCrunch)
2021-08-11: When the economic tide goes out, we’ll see which VCs are naked (TechCrunch)
2021-08-10: Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters (TechCrunch)

July

2021-07-27: How RapidSOS used creative tactics to build a partnerships and BD engine at scale (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: The RapidSOS EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS, the software revolutionizing 911 calls (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete (TechCrunch)
2021-07-27: After a decade, Congress might finally bring 911 into the internet age (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-16: The price differential for engineers is declining (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: Your funding round isn’t special, but you might be (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: SF’s Off the Grid food truck festival refocuses on emergency response and services (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: Khosla’s Adina Tecklu breaks down how to nail your pitch (TechCrunch)
2021-07-13: Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation? (TechCrunch)
2021-07-13: The TechCrunch List is dead. Long live commodity capital (TechCrunch)
2021-07-09: Mmhmm, it’s the most ridiculous story we’ve ever heard (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Acrylic raises debut $55M solo GP fund to paint the future of crypto (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Tune in, SPAC on, drop LSD (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Dataminr’s first ever acquisition is UK-based geovisualization platform WatchKeeper (TechCrunch)
2021-07-06: Verizon demos THOR, it’s new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response (TechCrunch)
2021-07-05: SoftBank buys perpetual Yahoo trademark license for $1.6 billion (TechCrunch)
2021-07-02: California has no water and lots of liquidity (TechCrunch)
2021-07-01: Robinhood is going public and we’re very excited (TechCrunch)

June

2021-06-26: Equity Extras: Q&A from the live show (TechCrunch)
2021-06-26: Startup leaders need to learn how to build companies ready for crisis (TechCrunch)
2021-06-25: Equity Live: This is what leadership smells like (TechCrunch)
2021-06-23: How many lives does bitcoin have? (TechCrunch)
2021-06-21: Can the military academies compete with Stanford and Harvard in venture? Two veterans are raising $50M to find out (TechCrunch)
2021-06-18: Owning the paycheck is the key to fintech success (TechCrunch)
2021-06-17: Gusto makes first acquisition, buying Ardius to expand into R&D tax credits (TechCrunch)
2021-06-17: Neo4j raises neo$350m as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise (TechCrunch)
2021-06-16: Every startup needs an in-house senate (TechCrunch)
2021-06-15: Mar Hershenson joins us at TechCrunch Disrupt on how to craft your pitch deck (TechCrunch)
2021-06-15: Carbyne raises $20M more so when death knocks, you don’t answer the door (TechCrunch)
2021-06-11: The huge TAM of fake breaded chicken bits (TechCrunch)
2021-06-10: Can payday loans be made obsolete? With $15M more, Clair wants to find out (TechCrunch)
2021-06-04: Amazon is now open to getting sued (TechCrunch)
2021-06-03: One Concern raises $45M from SOMPO to scale its disaster resilience platform across Japan (TechCrunch)
2021-06-02: Coatue direct deposits $20M into Pinwheel, a payroll API for neobanks (TechCrunch)

May

2021-05-29: 3 views on the future of meetings (Extra Crunch)
2021-05-28: The SPAC trash ticker is counting down (TechCrunch)
2021-05-26: Cataclysms are a growth industry (TechCrunch)
2021-05-24: In a YC “power” play, Gridware girds $5.3M to save humanity from weather (TechCrunch)
2021-05-21: LinkedIn is the reason Apple made the M1 chip (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: OneNav locates $21M from GV to map our transition to the next generation of GPS (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: Kleiner spots Spot Meetings $5M to modernize walk-and-talks for the Zoom generation (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: OMG is Canada’s startup answer to the local news crisis (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: Geospatial startup Unfolded.ai acquired by Foursquare (TechCrunch)
2021-05-19: Spokn slurps out the BS in corporate internal comms and replaces it with audio storytelling (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Dorothy is a startup that offers faster cash post-disaster (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Uptrust raises $2M to fight the billions of dollars wasted on useless mass incarceration (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
2021-05-12: Duolingo swipes Tinder in a Clash Royale (TechCrunch)
2021-05-10: Blind raises $37M to double down on workplace gossip and career advice (TechCrunch)
2021-05-09: The human-focused startups of the hellfire (TechCrunch)
2021-05-08: When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working (TechCrunch)
2021-05-07: If 12% is the new 30%, 4% is the new 12% (TechCrunch)
2021-05-03: The Duolingo EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-05-02: Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire (TechCrunch)
2021-05-01: The most disastrous sales cycle in the world (TechCrunch)
2021-05-01: Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy? (TechCrunch)

April

2021-04-30: The second shot is kicking in (TechCrunch)
2021-04-28: In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream (TechCrunch)
2021-04-28: MD Ally connects telehealth alternatives right into 911 calls (TechCrunch)
2021-04-26: With a third of its capital deployed, Risk & Return is transforming how we think about emergency response (TechCrunch)
2021-04-23: No one is talking about remote work from space (TechCrunch)
2021-04-22: RapidSOS and Axon ink deal to give better real-time information to emergency responders (TechCrunch)
2021-04-22: Newly-christened Percent wants to make it easier to securitize corporate debt (TechCrunch)
2021-04-21: The rise of the next Coinbase, thanks to Coinbase (TechCrunch)
2021-04-19: The Klaviyo EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-04-19: These three investors think founders need some TLC (Collective funds) (TechCrunch)
2021-04-16: Do you need a SPAC therapist? (TechCrunch)
2021-04-12: When wildfires rage close, Perimeter wants to tell you where to go (TechCrunch)
2021-04-09: Creator economy’s slow burn (TechCrunch)
2021-04-08: Index closes $200 million dedicated seed fund to intensify multi-stage thesis (TechCrunch)
2021-04-08: Bootstrapping, managing product-led growth and knowing when to fundraise (Extra Crunch)
2021-04-05: The StockX EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-04-02: Clubhouse will create billions in value and capture none of it (TechCrunch)

March

2021-03-30: The Tonal EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-03-26: You can only invest if you promise not to read the fine print, ok? (TechCrunch)
2021-03-22: Mithril dives into chips again with a $55M infusion to Flex Logix (TechCrunch)
2021-03-19: Forget medicine, in the future you might get prescribed apps (TechCrunch)
2021-03-19: Timing your bootstrap with Calendly’s Tope Awotona and OpenView’s Blake Bartlett (TechCrunch)
2021-03-17: Pregame Y Combinator with Equity (TechCrunch)
2021-03-15: Labs over Fabs: How the U.S. Should Invest in the Future of Semiconductors (Foreign Policy Research Institute)
2021-03-12: Can you beat Google with Google’s brains? (TechCrunch)
2021-03-10: NFTs are changing cultural value creation (TechCrunch)
2021-03-05: SoftBank makes mountains of cash off of human laziness (TechCrunch)
2021-03-03: $100 million for mealworms (TechCrunch)
2021-03-02: Cornea eyes in on fighting wildfires using better data (TechCrunch)
2021-03-02: Silicon Valley’s myths and realities of existential risk (TechCrunch)
2021-03-01: Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M (TechCrunch)

February

2021-02-26: Why are we still dating LinkedIn in 2021? (TechCrunch)
2021-02-25: USV has been aggressively selling off shares in Coinbase in run up to IPO (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: The Equity podcast is growing (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: SpaceX is really just SPAC and an ex (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
2021-02-22: Lightspeed’s COO David Baga leaving to join pay advance startup Even as CEO (TechCrunch)
2021-02-20: South Korea’s prime minister has joined Clubhouse (TechCrunch)
2021-02-18: A16z doesn’t invest, it manifests (TechCrunch)
2021-02-17: DuPont and VCs see lithium mining as a critical investment for the electric future (TechCrunch)
2021-02-17: Gridware is building early-detection sensors for power grid failures and wildfires (TechCrunch)
2021-02-16: The creator movement is entering primetime, and so is Circle with a fresh $4M (TechCrunch)
2021-02-11: Does SoftBank have 20 more DoorDashes? (TechCrunch)
2021-02-10: Equity Shot: What’s next for the startup software market (TechCrunch)
2021-02-09: PSA: Most aggregate VC trend data is garbage (TechCrunch)
2021-02-09: Dating juggernaut Match buys Seoul-based Hyperconnect for $1.73B, its biggest acquisition ever (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: CHIPS Alliance hires new director to push open-source chips ecosystem into next gear (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: Blair launches $100M facility to fund ISAs for students (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: SoftBank and the late-stage venture capital J-curve (Extra Crunch)
2021-02-08: SoftBank kills half the performance incentive for its Vision Fund execs (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: WeWork is apparently doing better, not that SoftBank wants you to talk about that (TechCrunch)
2021-02-06: SoftBank files for a double scoop of SPAC (TechCrunch)
2021-02-04: Carta’s startup liquidity service CartaX conducts first transactions on its own cap table (TechCrunch)
2021-02-04: A lake house architect, a Miami VC, and homeowner walk into a wine bar (TechCrunch)
2021-02-03: Lightspeed and Max Levchin bet on Balance to bring B2B payments into the digital world (TechCrunch)
2021-02-02: Omnispace raises $60M to fuse satellites and 5G into one ubiquitous network (TechCrunch)
2021-02-01: Best-Practices-as-a-Service is a key investment theme to watch in 2021 (Extra Crunch)

January

2021-01-28: Robinhood stops the games (TechCrunch)
2021-01-28: Why calendar invites are worth $3B (TechCrunch)
2021-01-26: EdgeQ reveals more details behind its next-gen 5G/AI chip (TechCrunch)
2021-01-26: Ex-Uber team raises seed for geospatial analytics platform Unfolded.ai (TechCrunch)
2021-01-21: The only take about the future of media is that media is the future (TechCrunch)
2021-01-16: Checkout wants to be Rapyd and Fast (TechCrunch)
2021-01-15: As home sales skyrocket and IPO looms, Diane Yu joins fintech Better.com as CTO (TechCrunch)
2021-01-15: DOT evaluated 11 GPS replacements and found only one that worked across use cases (TechCrunch)
2021-01-14: The end of Plaid-Visa, and Palantir’s growing startup mafia (TechCrunch)
2021-01-14: Mosaic raises $18.5M Series A from GC to rebuild the CFO software stack (TechCrunch)
2021-01-13: Will startup valuations change given rising antitrust concerns? (Extra Crunch)
2021-01-13: Two-year-old NUVIA sells to Qualcomm for $1.4 billion (TechCrunch)
2021-01-12: Lantern is a startup looking to ignite a conversation about how to die well (TechCrunch)
2021-01-12: Capchase nabs $60M in credit to help founders avoid dilution (TechCrunch)
2021-01-11: I’m a free speech champion. I don’t even know what that means anymore (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: Who is underpricing Roblox? (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: Amazon Web Services gives Parler 24-hour notice that it will suspend services to the company (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: The deplatforming of a president (TechCrunch)
2021-01-07: Hopin might be the fastest growth story of this era (TechCrunch)
2021-01-07: WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)
2021-01-04: The cauldrons of gold theory of media and startups (TechCrunch)