Source: TechCrunch
Khloé Kardashian and Kris Jenner are raising money for a new consumer startup
Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner are looking to raise $10 million for a new business called Khloud, according to an SEC filing.
Dominic-Madori Davis
Dec. 4, 2024, 9:15 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce AgentForce is any indicator
If Don Draper from “Mad Men” Don Draper was quintessentially, at his deepest self, an ad man, then Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is likewise a sales guy. Lately he’s been selling – or more like singing the gospel – about AI agents and Salesforce’s recently released agent-maker platform, AgentForce.
Julie Bort
Dec. 4, 2024, 9:15 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Non-profit 1863 Ventures has closed, reborn into for-profit New Majority Ventures
The nonprofit organization 1863 Ventures, which focused on providing capital and mentorship to early-staged underrepresented founders, will close and become a for-profit entity called New Majority Ventures, according to its founder Melissa Bradley. The new organization will rely on a fiscal sponsor and is said to be in talks with The Tide Foundation for this role.
Dominic-Madori Davis
Dec. 4, 2024, 9:15 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks
The globe likely breezed past 1.5 degrees C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement’s aspirational target. Further warming increases the risk of catastrophic consequences, including more frequent extreme droughts, floods, and fires; stronger hurricanes; faster-spreading infectious diseases; and declining wildlife and fish populations. A host of carbon-capture startups hope to reverse this trend by removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Tim De Chant
Dec. 4, 2024, 8:45 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner are raising money for a new consumer startup
Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner are looking to raise $10 million for a new business called Khloud, according to an SEC filing.
Dominic-Madori Davis
Dec. 4, 2024, 8:45 p.m.
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5 min read
Source: TechCrunch
Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup
Three members of Google’s NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.
Charles Rollet
Dec. 4, 2024, 8:45 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
The pope gets his first electric popemobile from Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first all-electric popemobile to the Vatican: a modified version of the German automaker’s G-Class SUV.
Sean O'Kane
Dec. 4, 2024, 8:15 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
The Pope gets his first electric Popemobile from Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first all-electric Popemobile to the Vatican: A modified version of the German automaker’s G-Class SUV.
Sean O'Kane
Dec. 4, 2024, 7:45 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Senators say US military is failing to secure its phones from foreign spies
Two U.S. senators are accusing the Department of Defense (DOD) of not doing enough to protect the communications of its military personnel, as the U.S. government contends with an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign targeting American phone and internet giants. The senators say the Department of Defense still relies too heavily on old-fashioned landline calls, and unencrypted cellular calls and texts, which are vulnerable to snooping by foreign spies.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Dec. 4, 2024, 7:15 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
$132K – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data
Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees?
Julie Bort
Dec. 4, 2024, 7:15 p.m.
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