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As an investor, you know you need to keep your pipeline primed, and one of the best places to find early-stage startups with promising portfolio potential is, you guessed it, TechCrunch Disrupt. TechCrunch is here to help: Let’s take a look at all the ways Disrupt can boost your pipeline and keep deals coming after the conference ends. Investor Opportunities at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Let's start here: Buy an Investor Pass and save $600. Not only will you get in, you'll also get a ticket to an invitation-only reception, and a list of all the Startup Battlefield 200 companies for…
Popular productivity tool Notion has long offered users the ability to publish their pages however they like, and now the company is expanding on this with the release of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. Most are pretty straightforward, but together they make for a more polished publishing experience. A lot of content-centric work is already done in Notion, like organizing a publishing calendar or working on actual documents. Over the years, Notion users have come up with different ways to turn pages into websites; there's even a startup founded solely on that idea.…
Joseph Phillips and William Corbella are both entrepreneurs and have been friends for over a decade. Corvera is the co-founder of RevoPay, a payment processing platform that was acquired by payment solutions company OSG in 2022. Meanwhile, Phillips led the national sales team at Seamless before heading up sales at ServiceTitan, a web-based management tool for construction contractors. In 2020, Phillips and Corbera, who have both worked in payments for many years, decided to join forces to found a payments-focused venture called Payabli, which will build an infrastructure to enable businesses, especially software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through…
Patreon, the paid membership platform for creators, on Tuesday announced the release of new features designed to help creators monetize their free followers and unlock new revenue streams, including the ability to sell individual posts, a gifting feature that lets creators give fans limited-time subscriptions, and promotional tools for sharing clips on social media. The new features reflect Patreon's efforts to expand beyond its role as a monetization platform. Last year, Patreon launched a free membership option, allowing fans to follow their favorite influencers without committing to a monthly subscription. The company revealed in a blog post today that the…
Google is introducing a new Gemini AI side panel to Gmail that helps you compose emails and summarize email threads. The company is also adding the Gemini side panel to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The release of the new features comes on the heels of Google's announcements at its I/O developer conference last month, which focused on new AI products from the tech giant. With the new integration, you can use Gemini in Gmail to get help drafting emails, receive suggested replies to your emails, and even ask questions or search for specific information from emails in your inbox…
iPhone mirroring, one of the hot features coming to Apple's next operating system, is now available to developers testing beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The latest beta release includes support for mirroring your iPhone directly to your Mac, allowing you to use your phone on your computer, including opening and running iPhone apps and moving files between your Mac and iPhone. First announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, iPhone Mirroring makes it easy for consumers to use Mac and iPhone apps side-by-side. For example, a demo at the event showed how a video…
Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It is a software-as-a-service tool that helps companies handle large public tenders. It is a bit like Govly in the US. Originally created within startup studio Hexa, the startup has raised a funding round of €3 million ($3.2 million at current exchange rates) led by Point Nine. For most companies, public tenders are a huge untapped market because they require huge resources: in France alone there are more than 200 platforms hosting public tenders, and even if you find an opportunity, putting together a strong application takes a lot…
Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler is back to build the next big app community, except this time the focus isn't on books, but on content you can find online, including news articles, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and more. Smashing, an AI- and community-powered content recommendation app currently released in invite-only beta, aims to connect users with their interests by surfacing the internet's hidden gems. The launch of the service comes at a time when many news consumers are still mourning the loss of Artifact, the AI news reader from an Instagram co-founder that was recently sold to TechCrunch parent…
Job hunting can be daunting, especially for those who are not immigrants to the U.S. Not only do you have to compete on the strength of your resume, but you also have to comb through hundreds of job offers to find the few that will sponsor your work visa, and if you lose your job, you only have 60 days to find another one before you have to leave the country. The lottery (the H-1B program, which randomly selects skilled foreigners to work in the US) is notoriously difficult to win. According to official data, the US Citizenship and Immigration…
Boeing subsidiary WiskAero has acquired Velocell, a software verification and validation company that has been serving the aerospace industry for 25 years. Wisk is taking an autonomy-first approach to electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft: The company's sixth-generation aircraft, which is set to begin aerial testing later this year, is designed for human oversight but will not be physically piloted by humans. This means that Wisk, more than any other company building eVTOL vehicles, needs to ensure that its software is up to par. “There's a ton of high-integrity software in the aircraft and everywhere on the ground that…