Venture funding remains stable in France thanks to AI startups

Alex Dewez, a partner at 20VC, just released its highly anticipated State of the French Tech Ecosystem 2024 report. This is a nice follow-up to Atomico’s State of European Tech…

Cleo Capital launches cybersecurity accelerator to help undo the ‘crushing burden’ of online threats

Cleo Capital, the early-stage venture fund that counts the AI firm Groq, fintech company Ellevest, and fashion brand Hill House as investments, has announced the launch of a new cybersecurity…

Scale Ventures Partners on the real risks of AI to workers, and the opportunity in vertical investments

Scale Ventures Partners’ Jeremy Kaufmann and Alex Niehenke joined us for a StrictlyVC discussion in San Francisco, and they had a more candid take on the impact of AI on…

Samsung Will Reveal Its Newest Smartphones on January 22

New Year, new Samsung smartphone to drop your money on. The company has officially announced it will host Galaxy Unpacked on Wednesday, January 22. It will be in San Jose,…

Ohio Governor Will Let the Cops Charge the Public $750 for Bodycam Footage

Buried on page 72 of Ohio’s new HB 315 is a provision that’ll make it harder to get bodycam footage out of the cops. As reported by News 5 Cleveland,…

Google Pixel 9 Pro XL vs iPhone 15 Pro Max: Battle of the Flagship Smartphones

Ah, I love a good face-off, and we’ve got a doozy for you this time. In one corner, you’ve got the iPhone 15 Pro Max. A proven prizefighter, the 15…

Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Instagram Alternative Called Flashes

There is a lot of change in the air of the social media world as TikTok prepares to go dark, Mark Zuckerberg loosens content restrictions on Meta apps, and Elon…

A Conversation with Mark Rostick at Strictly VC NYC 2024

Connie Loizos in conversation with Mark Rostick, senior managing director at Intel Capital at Strictly VC NYC 2024. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn.ch/instagram TikTok:…

Ex-NBA athlete Omri Casspi launches $60M fund targeting cybersecurity, cloud infra and AI

Former NBA athlete Omri Casspi has raised $60 million for his latest venture fund, Swish Ventures, which will invest in early-stage cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and AI startups. The fund plans…

Hexa, the startup studio behind Aircall and Swan, unveils its next batch of startups

Hexa, a Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, is sharing a list of its next batch of projects that are soon going to become independent…