Techstars doubles down on space with a new Starburst cohort and European space program: Jonathan Shieber
Techstars has got the stars in its eyes, and space on the brain as it doubles down on investment programs that aim to enable the commercial space industry to boldly go where it has never gone before. On the heels of SpaceX’s historic mission last weekend taki…
Transparent face mask startup inhales $1M seed round: Devin Coldewey
A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to about $105 million) to commercialize its transparent and relatively eco-friendly surgical masks. The founders were inspir…
IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage: Frederic Lardinois
The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme. It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread f…
Edtech is surging, and parents have some notes: Natasha Mascarenhas
Unlike most sectors, edtech has been booming over the last few months. Flashcards startup Quizlet is now a unicorn, digital textbook company Top Hat is finding unprecedented surges in usage and student success business Edsights raised nearly $2 million from h…
Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19: Taylor Hatmaker
Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days and apparently they’re still going strong. So strong, in fact, that Twitter began applying a label to some tweets about COVID-…
If you’re not investing in diverse founders, you’re a bad investor: BLCK VC
We're tired of holding back anger and sadness as we talk about these issues, knowing our industry isn’t even doing the bare minimum to support Black investors.
What to consider before publishing your diversity memo: Natasha Mascarenhas
In the past few weeks, several venture capital firms have published different variations of the same pledge: we’ll do a better job supporting the Black community. My timeline, and I’m assuming yours too, has been filled with statements from non-Black venture …
Podhero launches a $5.99 subscription app where you can support your favorite podcasts: Anthony Ha
Podhero is offering listeners a new way to pay their favorite podcasters. The startup behind the app is led by Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously founded HipChat (sold to Atlassian) and launched Swoot last year, which was focused on helping you fin…
Sign up for tomorrow's Pitchers & Pitches session: Marquise Foster
We’re just 24 hours away from the second installment of Pitchers and Pitches. If you want to whip your elevator pitch into shape, select your favorite beverage and join us for an interactive pitch-off and feedback session. We kick off tomorrow, June 10 at 4pm…
Republican senators ask FCC to examine Section 230, following Trump order: Brian Heater
On May 29, the president of the United States of America tweeted, simply, “REVOKE 230!” The message was all caps, with an exclamation mark for good measure. The message was nothing, if not direct, following the issuing of an executive order, which, among othe…
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