Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. The startup, which calls itself “Google Maps for business growth,” announced today that it has raised $15 million from Elevation Capital, Jungle Ventures and Venture Highway, plus 25 angel investors. One of Drivetrain’s…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Continuity Camera was one of the odder additions that arrived in the last round of Apple operating system updates. It seemed like an awkward fix to a longstanding issue with Mac webcams, clipping your iPhone to the top of your laptop lid, but I’ve come to appreciate it in my recent travels. Today, Belkin announced…
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, serial entrepreneur Marc Lore disclosed exclusive details about a new dynamic ticketing startup, still in stealth, that he founded with former New York Yankee all-star Alex Rodriguez. Called Jump Platforms, the company will sell access to seats that free up when people leave midway through a game. Fans already at the…
After a whirlwind month of spewing racism, antisemitism and just straight oddities, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, announced his intention to buy right-wing extremist “free speech” platform Parler. Coincidentally, we’re sure, the app’s CEO is George Farmer, who is the husband of Kanye’s new best friend, conservative political pundit Candace Owens. In…
Meet NXgenPort, a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter. NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. The port combines chemo-port efficacy with sensor technology to measure…
Meet Omneky, a startup that leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. The company wants to make online ads both cheaper and more effective thanks to recent innovations in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Omneky is participating in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch…
For many people who live with depression, medication is an important part of managing the condition. But knowing which will work for you can be a difficult months-long process. Circular Genomics claims its new form of genetic testing can identify which medications will work for a patient in a fraction of that time. As some…
SAVE $200: As of Oct. 18, the 2020 Apple MacBook Air M1 (8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is back at its Prime Day price of $799 at Amazon — that’s 20% off its MSRP and its lowest price ever. While Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale wasn’t the massive blowout the retail giant likely hoped for, we…
TL;DR: As of Oct. 18, the 12-foot skeleton is back in stock at Home Depot. Order one for $299. In the last week, we’ve been blessed with the return of not one, but two Halloween icons: Michael Myers in his swan song… and the Home Depot skeleton. Restocked with less than two weeks until the…
Michael B. Jordan makes his directorial debut with Creed III, which sees Adonis Creed (Jordan) take on a friend from his past. After a dominant boxing career, Adonis is running a boxing gym and enjoying time with his family. He runs into Damian (Jonathan Majors), an old friend and former boxing prodigy, who just finished…