To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.
Despite the many ways in which women have advanced AI tech, they make up a tiny sliver of the global AI workforce.
According to a 2021 Stanford study, just 16% of tenure-track faculty focused on AI are women.
With any luck, TechCrunch’s humble contribution — a series on accomplished women in AI — will help move the needle in the right direction.
The women we profile share many suggestions for those who wish to grow and evolve the AI field for the better.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.
Despite the many ways in which women have advanced AI tech, they make up a tiny sliver of the global AI workforce.
According to a 2021 Stanford study, just 16% of tenure-track faculty focused on AI are women.
With any luck, TechCrunch’s humble contribution — a series on accomplished women in AI — will help move the needle in the right direction.
The women we profile share many suggestions for those who wish to grow and evolve the AI field for the better.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.
Despite the many ways in which women have advanced AI tech, they make up a tiny sliver of the global AI workforce.
According to a 2021 Stanford study, just 16% of tenure-track faculty focused on AI are women.
With any luck, TechCrunch’s humble contribution — a series on accomplished women in AI — will help move the needle in the right direction.
The women we profile share many suggestions for those who wish to grow and evolve the AI field for the better.
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Autonomous vehicle and EV startups — even those that have since gone public — are trying to cut costs in hopes of extending their capital runway.
Now, a few little birds are telling us that Canoo and Faraday Future — both EV startups that went public via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies — are either reducing salaries or furloughing employees.
So what went wrong at Cruise?
Cruise also revealed that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have also opened investigations into the company.
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Prior to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of the spot bitcoin ETFs, some experts told me they expected trading volumes to hit $10 billion in a year, not a week.
Monica has spent the last 10 years at Ripple, working her way up from the director of communications to now, president.
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However, at this year’s event, there was a conspicuous void: the near-absence of sex tech.
Despite being an industry that caters to a universal human experience, sex tech has always had an uneasy association with CES.
In 2019, sex tech had its headline moment at CES when pleasure tech company Lora DiCarlo won an innovation award—only for it to be rescinded, and then reinstated after widespread backlash.
This controversy highlighted the uneasy relationship between the mainstream tech industry and its more intimate cousin.
Fast forward to 2024, and it seems CES has effectively managed to chase the sex tech industry off its show floors.
Creating a startup without a fixed idea is like building a startup backward.
Our journey began when my co-founder, Qi Cao, was exploring various startup ideas.
Due to the increased paid marketing costs, finding new and cheaper ways of acquiring customers through content has become top of mind for startups and small businesses.
Although arguably positive for us as consumers, the privacy trend is causing paid marketing costs to soar.
Keep testing various marketing tactics until you strike gold, and measure your results to see if they were successful.
Ten of TuSimple’s autonomous big rigs are set to be auctioned off later this month, just a few weeks after the self-driving trucking startup that went public in 2021 announced it was exiting the U.S. market.
The trucks, along with a slew of research and development equipment and office supplies, will be sold off in two online auctions.
A spokesperson for the auction company confirmed 10 trucks will “initially” be sold.
The company went public in 2021 and was swiftly scrutinized by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States over its Chinese shareholders.
In December, the company said it would exit the U.S. altogether and laid off more than 150 workers as a result.
Down under, only 3% of venture capital funding went to all-women-founded teams, and 10% went to teams with at least one woman founder.
In 2021 and 2020, 21% and 25%, respectively, of VC funding in Australia went to startups with at least one woman founder.
A report commissioned by consulting firm the Creative Co-Operative found that in 2021, despite a record increase in VC funding in Australia — about $10 billion — just 0.03% went to Bla(c)k women and women of color founders.
The VC aims to raise another $100 million for its Fund 2 in the spring of 2024.
Beyond just giving women money, Warren and F5 want to create generational change for a billion women across India, Southeast Asia and Australia.
Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company.
This decline led the NYSE to issue a warning that Bird’s share price was too low.
Separately, Bird also announced a round of layoffs shortly after buying rival Spin for $19 million.
Chapter 11A Chapter 11 bankruptcy will enable Bird to restructure its financials without disrupting day-to-day operations, with Apollo Global Management division MidCap Financial among existing lenders providing $25 million in financing through the bankruptcy proceedings.
And in Europe, dockless scooter startup Tier recently laid off 22% of its workforce, which followed Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof’s bankruptcy proceedings.
