Chicago Bears No. 1 overall pick and quarterback Caleb Williams has gone through some early growing pains ahead of his first season, which is to be expected. However, that’s not a big deal as long as he keeps improving while showing flashes along the way, the latter of which he absolutely did during a practice at […]
2024 RBC Canadian Open odds, predictions, best prop bet picks for this week's PGA Tour event
This week’s PGA Tour stop, the RBC Canadian Open, has one factor that should be intriguing to bettors: Only one winner in the last 10 years (eight tournaments) is from the United States. Dustin Johnson won the tournament in 2018 but otherwise it’s a foreign contingent leading the way. Well, foreign if you count Canada’s-own, […]
Bootstrapped for over a decade, this Dallas company just secured $110M to help people pay bills by text
Solutions by Text, a company that gives people a way to pay their bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has secured $ 110 million in new growth funding. Edison Partners and StepStone Group co-led the equity portion of the raise while Stifel Venture Bank provided a lending facility, which made up less than […]
This Week in AI: OpenAI and publishers are partners of convenience
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter […]
From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we approach the halfway point of the year. 2024 delivered four venture-backed tech IPOs, Reddit, Astera Labs, Ibotta and Rubrik, in March and April, which made it seem like this year could spur the momentum investors had hoped […]