The Texans and Kamari Lassiter agreed on a contract Thursday, one day before the team’s rookie minicamps were set to begin. Lassiter signed a four-year, $ 9.014 million contract with a $ 3.376 million signing bonus, per KPRC 2’s Aaron Wilson. The Texans drafted Lassiter with the No. 42 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft […]
Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space
When Sonia García and Stas Sokolin decided to launch Amae Health to solve the broken care system for people with severe mental illness, they were already intimately familiar with the industry’s issues. “I started thinking about this problem a very long time ago,” said Sokolin, Amae’s CEO. “I grew up with a sister who had […]
TikTok gets Tay and Billie back with new UMG content licensing deal
Users on TikTok can once again create music clips using tracks from UMG’s catalog, a list featuring some of the biggest names in music today: Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande. That’s because, after months of fighting, the social media platform and Universal Music Group (UMG) have finally called a truce with a new […]
TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s media deal rush continues with FT deal
OpenAI has landed a new content deal with the FT. But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money, the two are teaming up a bit more deeply. Look to see FT.com links in ChaptGPT in the future. But the FT-OpenAI tie-up tells us a bit more […]
Deal Dive: Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits
Givebutter started in a George Washington University dorm room in 2016 as a software solution to make nonprofit fundraising more transparent and fun. Eight years later, the company is profitable and it just raised $ 50 million to scale as momentum for nonprofit-focused startups appears to be growing. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Max Friedman, […]