Daily Crunch: WhatsApp’s new discussion groups offer end-to-end encryption and support up to 1,024 users
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Rocket Lab will attempt to catch an Electron rocket booster with a helicopter again
Rocket Lab is gearing up for a second attempt to catch a rocket booster mid-air using a helicopter, a technique the company is hoping to perfect after a partially successful recovery earlier this year. The mission, playfully dubbed “Catch Me If You Can,” is scheduled...
I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks. These are the most common mistakes
Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review a pitch deck in detail, celebrating the wins and gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) suggesting improvements. We’ve seen 74-slide decks (yes,...
Why the CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange backed Musk’s Twitter buyout
Binance’s CEO and founder, Changpeng Zhao, made headlines outside his typical wheelhouse of web3 as an investor in Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout. Zhao, who put in $500 million, told an audience at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal this week that he would...
Bitwise, Paradigm and Perkins Coie talk regs at TC Sessions: Crypto
Crypto entities ranging from major exchanges to small projects are on the road to stateside regulation. Whether it comes through the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, many actors in the space are looking for concrete...
Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat
Another company hoping to capitalize on Twitter’s upheaval in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover is the newsletter platform Substack. The company has openly targeted Twitter’s user base over the past few days and has now thrown its hat into the ring as...
Former ButcherBox execs leverage meat shipment expertise into new D2C startup
As ButcherBox’s former head of logistics, Juan Meisel knows how to get perishable items from A to Z, and now he wants to do the same for Grip, a perishable shipping company he is bringing out of stealth mode with $2 million pre-seed funding. Dubbed a “smart logistics...
Smartex sews up $24.7M to put smarter eyes on textile manufacturing
A lot of things might spring to mind when you hear “fashion,” but taking care of the planet generally isn’t on that list. Smartex just raised a couple of bolts’ worth of cash, sowing up a round of funding to bring smart tech to fabric...
Twitter cancels its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition
Twitter is canceling its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition, the company said late Thursday. After Elon Musk took over the company last month, there have been several executive exits and directional changes in the company’s product...
Tiger Global-backed SaaS startup Chargebee cuts 10% jobs
Chargebee, backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, has laid off about 10% of its staff in a “reorganization” effort due to ongoing global macroeconomic challenges and growing operational debt. The Chennai and San...