A company providing very unique service has become a new client for SpaceX – Elysium, which creates memorial spacecraft commissioned to commemorate individuals, announced that It will launch its first ever extraterrestrial tribute aboard an upcoming SpaceX shared [...]
Renly thinks they have what it takes to be the platform for booking temporary beauty and fitness locations. Founder Chris Sheng calls it the “Airbnb for commercial business space.” He found that many studio and gym owners have [...]
Caribou Bioscience co-founder and CEO Rachel Haurwitz joined us onstage at Disrupt this morning to help unpack some of the myriad complexities around her company’s pioneering work in the field of CRISPR biology. The gene editing tool has [...]
This morning the TechCrunch staff woke up at our Disrupt NY hotel to find out that the Starbucks in the lobby couldn’t accept any payments – meaning they couldn’t give us coffee. A quick Twitter check showed that [...]
Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan, and Managed by Q CEO Dan Teran joined TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Tuesday to discuss the evolution and shortcomings of the so-called “gig economy.” Both startups help customers book quality cleaning and [...]
Lucid Motors and Local Motors. Two companies, both looking to shake up how the world thinks about vehicles and mobility — but each one is trying to take an entirely different route to get there. Lucid wants to [...]
Amazon has quietly launched a new program that will directly pay developers building high quality Alexa skills – the voice-activated apps for Alexa-powered devices like the Amazon Echo speaker and related products. This is the first time Amazon [...]
Bill Maris, the former chief executive of Alphabet’s venture arm, GV, has closed on $150 million in commitments for his own, San Diego-based venture firm. The outfit, Section 32, was expected to raise closer to $100 million, according [...]
Can an app look you in the eye and know if you have a brain injury? That’s something being worked on by Startup Battlefield company Brightlamp, a computer vision and machine learning startup out of Purdue University. Read [...]
