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Helloooo! Since our final Each day Crunch, our adrenaline-fueled TechCrunch staff has added greater than 70 tales to the location. We’re choosing out a few of the greatest under, however we’ll nearly actually miss a narrative you would like you’d learn. Give our homepage a quick scroll to see what strikes your fancy! — Christine and Haje
The TechCrunch High 3
- Tim Cook and green bubbles: Christine is an Android person and her iPhone-using associates discuss “inexperienced bubbles,” however till now she didn’t know this was an issue. Christine’s textual content bubbles are available all totally different colours and even tells her who’s “talking” when in a gaggle. Nevertheless, she’s now realized that her iPhone-using associates secretly hate her inexperienced bubbles. Tim Cook dinner is on their aspect, Ivan writes.
- Ambient Mesh: That’s the title of Google and Solo.io’s new Istio service mesh. We’ll yield to Frederic to elucidate what all of which means.
- Electric vroom: Jeep has three, three new electrical autos, ah ah ah!, poised to enter the market starting in 2023, Jaclyn stories.
Startups and VC
It’s day 2 of Y Combinator-vaganza, which suggests we have now buckets and buckets of stories for you. Assuming information is available in buckets, however that’s a dialog for an additional day.
Tage stories that YC’s latest batch cuts African startup presence by more than half, and Anna, Alex and Tage are curious the place Y Combinator is startup-hunting in 2022. And Kyle explored 7 AI startups that stood out among the many YC hopefuls, and a load of TechCrunch writers chosen our 11 favorite companies from Day 1 and Day 2 and the moonshots.
Whew. Along with YC, Apple ran an occasion yesterday, and boy did we cowl a bunch of that, too. Fortunately, Christine has you coated on that entrance within the Large Tech part under.
Right here’s a number of extra for ya:
5 metrics Collection A traders search for at dev-tools startups
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The median Collection A for developer-tooling corporations fell to $47.5 million in Q3 2022, “the bottom it has been for the reason that starting of 2021,” writes Rak Garg, a principal at Bain Capital.
After assembly with a whole lot of corporations for the reason that begin of the downturn, Garg has written a fundraising information for seed-stage founders who’re hoping to succeed in the following stage.
“I’ve seen a standard attribute amongst founders who’ve raised profitable Collection A rounds: They’re nice at telling their corporations’ tales,” says Garg.
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Large Tech Inc.
A lot Apple, so little time. The Apple iPhone 14 occasion dominated our information cycle for the second day, especially this one by Greg, who we expect properly summed up all the things from the occasion. If you wish to learn each drooling element, head over to the Apple fall event hub.
Talking of issues to drool over, Christine wrote a quick piece about Bloomingdale’s getting into the metaverse with its new digital retailer that appears prefer it offers you purse envy.
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