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Software is a company’s third-largest expense, but because it’s spread across multiple departments, it’s the CFO’s responsibility to find places to cut. In a TC+ column that includes spending benchmarks …
TechCrunch+ Roundup: Slashing SaaS costs, FedNow’s ‘game changer,’ diverse cap tables Read More
Last Friday, two venture-backed companies filed to go public. Grocery delivery service Instacart dropped its Form S-1 filing along with Klaviyo, a marketing software company from Boston. We dug into …
Klaviyo could break the unicorn IPO logjam Read More
Several years ago, I was chatting with a friend who’d become an investor about an idea I had for a startup. It wasn’t a pitch: I just wanted to see …
TechCrunch+ Roundup: Monetizing generative AI, sex tech checkup, patents and IP Read More
Arm, the British chip design firm owned by SoftBank, filed to go public yesterday evening, following years of speculation around an IPO after the company’s plan to merge with GPU …
The bear and bull cases for Arm’s IPO Read More
Startups that were deemed worthy of a $1 billion valuation while still private were once so unusual, they seemed almost mythical — hence the “unicorn” moniker they were awarded. But …
As unicorns grow rarer, maybe it’s time to look toward revenue, not valuations Read More
Social app IRL shut down in June, but SoftBank — which led the platform’s $170 million Series C in 2021 — is now suing the company for $150 million. IRL …
TechCrunch+ Roundup: How VCs spot liars, venture debt basics, getting legal help (without going broke) Read More
“Building a plane in midair” is one of my favorite startup clichés. It’s something Silicon Valley visionaries love to say, but it has little to do with the iterative work …
TechCrunch+ Roundup: SaaS architecture, Kimberly Bryant’s next move, managing cloud security Read More