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A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Now out of private beta, the app offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories via their smartphone as an alternative to using […]

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about how YouTube has managed to skate along while Facebook has gotten pummeled over platform responsibility concerns. This week, we’re looking at another slippery slope Apple is dancing on the edge of. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can […]

This year's Pitch Deck Teardown at TechCrunch Disrupt was full of invaluable advice from an exceptional VC panel about how to capture investors' attention.

For the second time in two weeks, a spec home builder sold a non-waterfront Miami Beach house for $5 million or more.

When Merlin Labs founder Matt George was learning to fly in Vermont, he had a close call with a Jet Blue aircraft that was coming into Burlington airport. It was “an unsettling experience,” he told TechCrunch, but one that stuck with him. A few years later, after the transportation company he founded Bridgj was acquired […]

Bling Capital This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. When Ben Ling quit his high-powered job at Khosla Ventures to start his own firm, he didnt know if he would fail. It took hundreds of meetings but Ling successfully raised $90 million in just four months, he told Insider. He shared his best tips for how to go from $0 to multi-millions when fundraising. When Ben Ling ...

Relationship: Investor Headquarters: Cerritos, CA What it does: Provides a platform for enterprises to conduct internal audits and make sure theyre in compliance with government regulations. Why it will boom in 2021: The platform is already widely used by financial firms to ensure theyre compliant with federal laws, Sosin said, adding that AuditBoard is growing extremely quickly and efficiently. Advertisement Nina Achadjian, Index Ventures Index Ventures VC: Nina Achadjian, Index Ventures Relat...

» With Elon Musk moving to Texas, the worlds 3 richest people are set to pay a whopping $0 in state income taxes. Heres why 9 US states dont collect any income taxes. With Elon Musk moving to Texas, the worlds 3 richest people are set to pay a whopping $0 in state income taxes. Heres why 9 US states dont collect any income taxes. Hillary HoffowerDec 15, 2020, 03:02 IST Elon Musk is now a Texan.Pool/Getty Images Elon Musk, the worlds second-richest man, moved from California, the state with the...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. We asked investors at top venture capital firms to name the startups that will boom in 2021. Each VC was asked to name two startups: one that they invested in; and one where they have no financial ties or any other interest, but believe will do well. The result is an exciting list of startups to watch in the coming year in a wide variety of fields like consume...

Meet the two 20-year-old Indian-origin AI startup founders whove turned investor darlings Rejected by about 1,000 investors after they founded Vise at 16, Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra have lived to tell their tale— their AI-enabled investment management firm recently secured Series B funding of $45 million. Vise founders Runik Mehrotra and Samir Vasavada. Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra are the talk of the street. They are just 20, and Vise, their AI-enabled investment management compa...