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We were overwhelmed by the overwhelming response of speaking at TechCrunch All Stage at the Sova Power Station in Boston on July 15th. After thorough consideration, we selected six outstanding finalists. The power to choose who will take the stage and share their startup scaling expertise is in your hands now! This audience's choice poll will be open until May 2nd at 11:59pm. 1 vote, 1 speaker – count it! Meet the finalists Know the six exceptional audience selection finalists and proposed sessions and vote for speakers you think should take the lead in your roundtable. Building Team Intelligence: How…

It's been a busy year for the TechCrunch event. It looks like it's going to get even bigger. A very upscale event series for Strictlyvc, VCS and startups, our boutique transcends the Atlantic with stops in London and Athens! It brings StrictlyVC's insider conversation to Europe. On May 8th, we will jump into Athens' vibrant technology momentum with a special appearance by Greek Prime Minister Mitotakis. He then heads to London on May 13th to explore the investment and financial strategies that will form the European technology ecosystem. These strict events in Europe are something you don't want to miss…

Creating animations is a time-consuming process and requires multiple steps, including creating a single scene, such as storyboarding, rendering, composition, lighting, and more. If the director wants to try another take on the scene, the animation team will need to go back and tweak before confirming the scene. Cheehoo, a startup founded by a combination of Hollywood executives and engineers, wants to create AI-powered tools that make it easy for creatives to create animated content. The startup was born from Rideback, a production company that produced the Lego film franchise. Rideback co-CEOs Michael Lofaso and Jonathan Eirich are part of…

The UK's fintech sector is on a bit better. London-based fintech Allica Bank announced it doubled its profits in 2024, bringing £29.9 million, while Neobank Revolut announced its profits in 2024 of £1 billion. A study by HSBC Innovation Banking shows that more than 185 UK fintech startups are currently valued at over £1 billion. That's why Voltion, a UK-based VC investing in FinTech, AI and SaaS startups, has launched a new $100 million fund. Started in partnership with Japanese VC investor SBI Investment Co., the first VC Investment Co., the first VC Investment Co., was its first second dedicated…

It's been a busy year for the TechCrunch event. It looks like it's going to get even bigger. A very upscale event series for Strictlyvc, VCS and startups, our boutique transcends the Atlantic with stops in London and Athens! It brings StrictlyVC's insider conversation to Europe. On May 8th, we will jump into Athens' vibrant technology momentum with a special appearance by Greek Prime Minister Mitotakis. He then heads to London on May 13th to explore the investment and financial strategies that will form the European technology ecosystem. These strict events in Europe are something you don't want to miss…

In Silicon Valley, where names with the same high-wattage tend to dominate headlines, Ali Pertvi has long been a major influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate created an impressive resume early on. It joined Linkexchange's founding team (acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998) and launched Ilike (sold to MySpace with a $20 million report in 2009) and non-educational code code.org with Twin Brother Hadi. Together, they also became early investors in high-tech giants such as Facebook, Airbnb, and Dropbox. Industry insiders have long viewed Partovi Brothers' involvement in startups as a powerful signal, but the…

4chan has come back online after Hack defeated the infamous image sharing site for almost two weeks. The site first went down on April 14th, and the hack's director apparently leaked data, including a list of moderators and “managers” (one admin told TechCrunch he was “confident” that the leaked data was real). 4chan's expanded loss of disappearance led to at least one premature obituary, writing that journalist Ryan Broderick “has been left over for many years to the mass shooter fan club, the central node of Gamergate, and the fan club for a wide range of sticky beating around the…

If you're someone who wants to bookmark what you find interesting or come back later, it can be difficult to manage everything you save. There are many great bookmark apps in the market that will help you organize all these types of links, articles and everything else you've come across on your phone or browser. We've put together a list of some of the best to help you find the perfect one for you. raindrop.io Image credit: raindrop.io Raindrop is an easy-to-use bookmark app that allows you to clip articles, photos, videos, songs, books, pages, and more on the web…

Perhaps no one has created such a catastrophic technical highgun this year as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses. Saga reported that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a fraudulent signal group chat by US national security adviser Michael Waltz. To be fair, we all made embarrassing technical mistakes. But for most people, that means mistakenly preferring an original Instagram post from five years ago. It does not share secret government military plans with fraudulent recipients and commercial messaging apps. While this false misunderstanding of this highly sensitive information has already been bothering enough, this week the New…

A new app recently launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD, arriving on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage their travel plans when they are leaving for a trip and manage their travel plans by sending reminders 30, 10, or 5 minutes before departure. It also features live activities on iPhone and Apple Watch, showing the countdown. To encourage timely departures, we have recently adopted a point reward system with four difficulty levels. The easiest level, “Goldfish”, is where users award 3 points early, 2…