Memphis-based Dextrous Robotics is calling it a day. The news, noted by the Robot Report, was confirmed by the warehouse robotics firm’s CEO, Evan Drumwright, on LinkedIn. The executive spells out the company’s fate at the top of the post, noting, “Put simply, we adopted an aggressive trajectory 18 months ago that the recent investment…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our new Saturday show, where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and unpack the rest. This week, we talked to…
In the depth of the pandemic, 500 or so backers chipped in to make Makera’s Carvera Kickstarter campaign, a fully automatic desktop CNC machine, hit its goal. Since then, the company has sold another 2,500 or so of them — but with a hefty $6,000 price tag and a huge amount of interest from education,…
Erik Wikander Contributor Erik Wikander is the CEO and co-founder of Zupyak, a content marketing platform designed for startups, simplifying the process of creating SEO-optimized marketing content through generative AI. Creating a startup without a fixed idea is like building a startup backward. But that’s precisely how our startup, Zupyak, unfolded — and it worked….
A year ago, at CES, I broke out the snark-hammer at 444, a startup that was trying to make a “smart” pepper spray device. I came across the same company again at CES this year. To my surprise, it had landed a significant partnership, co-development and co-branding deal with Mace, one of the biggest names…
Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders, is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant continued investment. The team had rapidly iterated…
This week’s Pitch Deck Teardown comes to you from the PCB-laden confines of CES in Las Vegas. Today, we’re looking at the slide deck that video analytics firm Qortex used to raise a $10 million seed round. Qortex uses AI to help brands, media companies and creators identify the right moments in a video to…
Heads-up, startup dreamers and change makers! TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is where you’ll learn the next steps and make the connections you need to turn your idea into a viable business — or take your young startup to the next level. Be in the room on April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts, to learn hands-on with…
Aaron Hall has been creatively naming companies, products, and beyond for 20+ years. He has worked with Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, TikTok, HP & HPE, Hulu, Logitech, McDonald’s, NBCUniversal, and others. His expertise is in working with clients to find names that turn heads and showing clients names they’ve never seen before. What’s in a name?…
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week Devin, Kirsten and I have been running around in Las Vegas for CES to figure out what’s going on in the world of tech. Fifty-odd stories later, and it turns out there’s been a lot. On the drive…
