One-click checkout company Bolt confirms another round of layoffs

E-commerce and fintech company Bolt, which was at one time the subject of a federal probe, confirmed it laid off 29% of its...

Credit Karma co-founder Nichole Mustard stepping down after more than 16 years

Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16-and-a-half years, TechCrunch has exclusively learned today. A spokesperson of...

Getaround’s Q3 earnings delight investors, but the company isn’t out of the woods yet

Peer-to-peer carsharing company Getaround has filed its first earnings report since going public a year ago via a SPAC combination. The company’s third-quarter...

MrBeast’s analytics platform ViewStats is out in beta

The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now available in beta. Similar to...

Crypto hacks and chaos aren’t halting this holiday season

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at...

Seed-stage startups — and their investors — react to higher hurdles for Series A...

Lightspeed Venture Partners is formalizing its scale-up efforts, as other outfits make similar moves Connie Loizos @Cookie / 8 hours The hurdle for Series A funding...

Temu’s latest lawsuit against Shein is wild

Earlier this week, The Exchange argued that the PDD-Shein rivalry was worth keeping an eye on. PDD is a Chinese company that owns...

OpenAI thinks superhuman AI is coming — and wants to build tools to control...

While investors were preparing to go nuclear after Sam Altman’s unceremonious ouster from OpenAI and Altman was plotting his return to the company,...

Climactic launches first fund as its partners eye looming M&A boom in climate tech

A couple years ago, when the pandemic was still in full swing, Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser started making some investments in climate...

Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature

Earlier this fall, Spotify was found to be developing a new feature that would allow its streaming app users to create playlists using...