Healthcare spending accounts for almost 18% of U.S. GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. This year, VCs invested $14.7 billion in healthtech startups
TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire
Early-stage entrepreneurs eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. As a result, technical debt can accumulate.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s*** done day’
Our latest longform look at a notable tech company examines Automattic, “the leading commercial complement to the open-source WordPress publishing platform.”
TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans
No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. “Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed […]
TechCrunch+ roundup: Alternative financing, Web3 adoption, India’s hot Q3 fundraising
The possibilities of Web3 are fascinating, although I will admit that the notion of public networks where everyone is presumed to be trustworthy is still a bit of a mind-bender.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Creative capital, live-shopping strategy, new name + logo
Extra Crunch is now TechCrunch+. In addition to updating our name and logo, we’re offering military, student and government membership discounts and have expanded access to new regions. Also, Extra Crunch Live, our weekly video series with investors and founders, is now TechCrunch Live — and you don’t need to be a member to join […]
Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
If that headline sounded judgmental, I apologize.
Extra Crunch roundup: DTC strategy, IPO analysis, Zoom’s future product plans
TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! Tickets are still available for the three-day virtual event, which encompasses everything from Ryan Reynolds’ lessons on “fast-vertising” to Startup Battlefield.
Extra Crunch roundup: Adtech investing, Intuit buys Mailchimp, ideal customer profiles
In school, it’s highly unethical to copy someone else’s work and pass it off as your own. In business, however, it is expected.
Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing
Are founders in fundraising mode short-sighted when it comes to working with Chinese venture funds? Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). This figure puts […]