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By the time that Rap Genius graced the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2013, the three had landed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and were on the verge of rebranding Rap Genius as Genius and expanding its remit.
But Moghadam also began attracting attention to the annotation company for belligerent behavior, both public and private.
Indeed, in 2014, after posting tasteless comments as annotations after a mass murderer’s manifesto was posted to Genius’s platform, Moghadam resigned at the urging of Lehman, who was the company’s CEO.
Looking back, Moghadam expressed dismay that Genius contributors weren’t paid for helping to build out the platform.
Slamming the new owners of Genius, Moghadam had added that at “at least the [original] CEO [Lehman] straight up built Genius with his own two hands.
One path, which is particularly well trodden, is to start a venture fund.
Instead of launching a VC fund, they’re starting with an incubator called Montauk Climate, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Montauk Climate is one of the latter.
Montauk Climate will remain shareholders in its spinout companies and have seats on their boards.
As the number of incubated companies expands, Montauk Climate expects to raise its own venture fund to help support them.
Yet another AI-powered fraud detection software provider is laying off staff.
Inscribe, whose platform works to detect fraud in areas like business underwriting, tenant screening, and onboarding, has cut just under 40% of its staff, which equates to dozens of employees.
San Francisco-based Inscribe.ai confirmed the headcount reduction to TechCrunch, noting that the AI advances in the financial services industry necessitated a pivot to a new product and direction for the company.
“2023 was a year of change for our customers and Inscribe,” explained Inscribe CEO and co-founder, Ronan Burke.
At the time, the company forecast it would double its then 50-person workforce over the coming 12 to 18 months.
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Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has resigned from the e-commerce group’s board, the two said Saturday.
Sachin Bansal, the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s other co-founder, left the board in 2018 after scuffle with the investors.
Binny Bansal, who reserved the rights to stay on Flipkart’s board for as long as he preferred, cited conflict of interest with his new venture as the reason for the move.
“I am proud of the Flipkart Group’s achievements over the past 16 years.
After leaving Flipkart, Sachin Bansal founded Navi, a financial services firm that is looking to go public.
Mirantis, the enterprise infrastructure startup that has gone through its share of evolutionary cycles since it launched back in 1999.
That has included a number of leadership changes, including a CEO swap in 2018 which saw co-founder and CEO Alex Freedland step down and co-founder Adrian Ionel taking on the CEO role (after Ionel and Freedland had first swapped CEO roles back in 2015).
But now, in another twist to this story, Freeland is coming back as CEO while Ionel is stepping down effective January 11.
“Once again, we are in the middle of one of the most exciting periods in the history of computing, more than ever led by open source innovation.
Ionel will transition to an advisor role.
The SEC might finally approve spot bitcoin ETFs on Wednesday after denying applications for more than a decade.
Counting market movements, it could be $20 billion total AUM in spot bitcoin ETFs.” Valkyrie is one of 11 applicants for a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF; the other firms are BlackRock, Grayscale and Fidelity, among others.
But it was back in the end of September, beginning of October, when we’re launching our ETH futures ETF.
When we got an inclination that [the] spot bitcoin ETF was coming soon, we said OK, well, bitcoin futures ETFs are basically going to go away when a spot bitcoin ETF launches.
So we converted our bitcoin futures ETF into a strategy to invest in both ETH and bitcoin.
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Witte spoke to the duo about being early to the online language industry and how the company has survived these past 20 years of market disruption.
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This is a popular topic on TechCrunch+, where columnists spend considerable time discussing how startups can take advantage of OpenAI.
The following subscriber-only articles should serve as a foundation for founders building an AI startup on or off OpenAI’s platform.
Chris Ackerson, formerly on the IBM Watson team and now VP of Product at AlphaSense, explains the best ways for a startup to develop a generative AI copilot.
Read more here…Startups must add AI value beyond ChatGPT integrationThe AI hype train is going full swing.
From internal efficiency and productivity to external products and services, companies are racing to implement generative AI technologies across every sector of the economy.
