9 Healthcare Marketing Trends to Embrace in 2023
Healthcare consumers continue to move swiftly down the paths of least resistance toward quality care. This spells trouble for healthcare organizations that cannot change with the times. It’s time to pay attention to what competitors offer and find ways to remove unnecessary obstacles to care. In this blog, I share nine healthcare marketing trends you […]
Daily Crunch: Lensa AI can transform Photoshopped fakes into nonconsensual pornography
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Why, hello there, and welcome to your Tuesday Daily Crunch. I’ll be your host this week while Haje works from an undisclosed location where day is night and night is day. If […]
Fintech unicorn valuations have fallen hard in 2022
Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? The sector exploded last year, seeing record investment — $132 billion globally, according to CB Insights — with many startups reaching lofty valuations, including Stripe at $95 billion, Klarna at $45 billion and Plaid at $13 billion. While these companies have […]
Bosch shuts down its app store for AI-powered, internet-connected cameras
In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. SAST was to host a moderated, vetted “app store” for internet-connected cameras that would allow developers to build software on an open standard […]
TechCrunch+ roundup: The end of free money, how to forecast NRR, slashing SaaS spending
If you ask three different people whether we’re in a recession, you could easily get three different answers. As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. “The data is proving that […]
Starting the tampon revolution with Valentina Milanova
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week the show kicks off a new season and welcomes a new co-host. In this episode, Darrell is joined by Becca Szkutak to chat with Valentina Milanova, the founder of Daye, a gynecological health company creating CBD infused tampons. Valentina talks about […]
Circle and Footprint’s aborted debuts are the final nail in the SPAC coffin
It would be nice to say that we’ll miss SPACs. But as blank-check companies fade from our view, we have to say we really won’t. Many companies that went public via a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, have seen their valuations implode post-combination. The resulting public-market mess meant that regular investors, not merely the […]
Use customer health data to grow and forecast NRR
Kellie Capote Contributor Share on Twitter Kellie Capote is chief customer officer at Gainsight, where she leads the entire post-sales organization, including customer success management, support, professional services, and the CS Ops & Scale teams. An old maxim among courtroom litigators states that you should only ask a question of a witness when you already […]
Sellscale uses generative AI to create better marketing emails
Everyone who has email knows what a canned marketing email sounds like (and has probably deleted tons of them). For sales development representatives, automated emails are necessary to create the volume of outbound inquiries they need to get a decent number of leads. But badly written emails result in few replies and also make companies […]
Cacheflow doubles valuation while raising $10M, proving that the venture market is far from dead
Cacheflow, a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, announced this morning that it closed $10 million in new capital. Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told TechCrunch that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon (GGV) to its board and brought new investor Crystal Huang (GV) […]
