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Monday, October 31, 2022

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By Christine Hall and Haje Jan Kamps

Monday, October 31, 2022

Last week was a hell of a week in startup news, and Henry wrote a particularly good summary of everything that went down, including Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, Meta's troubles, and a minute of silence for self-driving cars. — Christine and Haje

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The TechCrunch Top 3

  • Flying chonk goes wheeeeeee: While we were all distracted by Elon Musk's other pet project, SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in three years. Aria has more.
  • Swipe right for utter chaos: Glitch or not, Instagram has some ‘splaining to do. A number of users woke up this morning to suspended accounts. We adore Aisha's headline, "Instagram is giving Twitter a run for its money as the most chaotic social network today." We concur.
  • Circle of friends: Egyptian fintech Money Fellows banked $31 million in new funding to, what Tage describes as, "digitizing money circles," which is where people essentially save and borrow together as a group.

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Startups and VC

Politician turned venture capitalist Bradley Tusk recently spoke at a TechCrunch Live event on how startups should approach regulation, in a session called "How to launch a startup into a regulated market." Dibbs CEO and co-founder Evan Vandenberg joined Tusk in the conversation. The event is embedded here and is both free and very worth watching.

Invygo, a startup operating in UAE and Saudi Arabia, has raised $10 million in its Series A funding as it works to scale its car rental service in the region. The Middle East–based startup has raised $14.3 million to date, Ivan reports.

And, as ever, there's a handful of additional stories. Just 4 this time — there were 5, but then a PR person decided to move the embargo for a story that was already published, and Haje got all salty and grumpy about it.

6 reasons why you shouldn't join an accelerator

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim devotes much of his time touting the many ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator.

But is it the right choice for every founder?

“Keep in mind that funding will solve your money problems, but it won't solve everything else,” he says. “You'll still need to figure out how to acquire customers, find the best talent, build an incredible product, assemble a great advisory board and get to product-market fit.”

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Darrell writing that Mark Zuckerberg should drop all that metaverse nonsense and "make a new Twitter" makes us want to respond with "bite your tongue!" But really, as he puts it, "Cloning the features of its rivals" is something Meta is good at, plus it has the best chance at also replicating user base and monetary worth. It's unlikely Zuck will take the bait, but never say never.

It's indeed a Twitter world, and we just live in it. First, Devin writes that Elon Musk just dissolved Twitter's board of directors, making him now the sole owner; then Ron followed up with what Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor can do now that he isn't on the board. Sarah reports on Twitter Blue's troubles, namely that the subscription service is feeling blue that it is not bringing in more green. Meanwhile, Amanda writes about what happens if Twitter starts charging for that little blue checkmark, and Natasha L reports that Musk might be trying to bring back Vine. Over the weekend, Rebecca wrote about layoffs at the company.

Don't worry, there was plenty of other news:

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Friday, October 28, 2022

With Musk's purchase completed, NYSE will delist Twitter stock on Election Day

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By Christine Hall

Friday, October 28, 2022

Happy Friday! Haje is enjoying some down time on the East Coast, so I am running solo. As you can see from the not-so-surprising move by Elon Musk last night and the sheer number of Twitter stories from our fabulous consumer tech team today, it has been all Twitter, all day. We promise to give you a little bit of that, of course, and a little of what else we've been working on. Let's dive in, shall we?  — Christine

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The TechCrunch Top 3

  • Flying the public coop: Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, its days are numbered as a public company. In fact, Ivan writes, Twitter will be delisted on November 8 — voting day for the U.S. midterm elections.
  • Caging the bird: Over to Europe, where just a few hours into actually owning Twitter, Musk already found himself on the wrong end of European Union officials, who corrected him after he tweeted about how free he thinks Twitter is now. Natasha L has more.
  • Big Tweet Chief: Reports now say that Musk will take the CEO role for himself, Ivan writes, after he ousted Twitter's four top executives, as reported by Amanda

For more news on the blue bird, head down to the Big Tech Inc. section, where we have you covered.

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Unfortunately, the hits keep coming for 54gene, an African genomics startup focused on providing more African genetic material to pharmaceutical research — there is just 3% now, Tage reports. After some months of layoffs and a CEO exit, the company confirmed that it not only made yet another round of layoffs — this time of 100 people — but it also slashed its valuation by over $100 million.

And we have three more for you:

  • Robot riot: Galen Robotics has a new robot that will assist with ear, nose and throat surgeries. Oh, and it secured $15 million in new funding, Andrew reports.
  • Follow the yellow brick road: Game studio Hidden Door is using narrative AI to turn fiction into immersive role-playing experiences, and Rebecca writes it is testing out "The Wizard of Oz."
  • Does anyone else use this word?: I was delighted to see that there is a company named Skidattl. The company is using augmented reality to show users what people are doing around them, in what Rebecca writes is "like a Bat-Signal for fun."

5 ways biotech startups can mitigate risk to grow sustainably in the long run

Thanks to R&D and clinical trials, life science startups have long lead times before they can bring their capital-intensive products to market.

“But,” asks Omar Khalil, a partner at Santé Ventures, “what happens when the funding suddenly dries up?”

In a guest post for TC+, he shares five strategies for biotech startups that are trying to stay warm through the winter ahead.

“It's still too early to know whether this is a short-term correction, or if it's a new normal that will be maintained for the foreseeable future.”

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As promised, we have even more Twitter news for you to enjoy. As I write this, several of my colleagues hopped on Twitter Spaces to talk about all this. One of the latest bits of news from Taylor was that Elon Musk was forming a content moderation "council" to make certain decisions — for example, about account reinstatements for, cough, Donald Trump. Here's two more:

Catching you up on more earnings reports:

And we have four more for you:

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