Revenue-based financing heats up in the Middle East as Flow48 attracts $25M in funding

We’ve seen how non-dilutive, revenue-based financing has risen up the priority ranks for companies as the era of ZIRP — as the Zero...

X says it will chase SMB ad dollars after Musk’s ‘go f*** yourself’ comments...

A new report by the Financial Times says X will now turn to small and medium-sized advertisers to shore up revenue after the...

Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs

Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building...

OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos

OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unspecified date in...

Ev startup Fisker cut its 2023 production target for the fourth time

Fisker, the California-based EV startup, cut its annual production guidance in an effort to free up $300 million in working capital, the company...

23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry

Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing...

Amazon signs 3-launch deal with SpaceX for Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation

Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday. The new...

TC+ Roundup: Forestry tech is at an inflection point

Forests are worth as much as $150 trillion, according to the Boston Consulting Group, with much of the interest in them centering around...

Sample Seed pitch deck: Scalestack’s $1M deck

AI is everywhere, and predictably, sales teams are among the early adopters. So I wasn’t surprised to see Scalestack raise $1 million to...

Why Rover’s $2.3B sale price makes good sense

And why not every SPAC is a dog Rover is going private in a $2.3 billion, all-cash sale to Blackstone, the company announced earlier...