Christine Hall

Plonts’ cheese is made from soybeans, one of the most efficient ways to grow protein. Soybeans themselves are not very flavorful, and that is where fermentation and aging, help Plonts…

Siddhi Capital’s second fund of $135 million is double the size of the venture capital firm’s first fund and will go into CPG and food tech startups.

Zoe sends customers at-home testing materials to collect blood or feces to test blood fat, blood sugar, and gut microbiome health. Following those results, the company scores every food (on…

Digital banking startup Mercury informed some founders that it is no longer serving customers in certain countries, including Ukraine.

Fragment’s digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up.

Slope’s founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure. 

Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to be.

Alma aims to simplify the visa process for technologists, founders and researchers by providing personal legal advisors.

After securing $14 million for its second fund in 2023, early-stage VC firm Kearny Jackson is back with a third fund.

With increasing competition for what is, essentially, still a small number of hard tech and deep tech deals, Sidney Scott realized it would be a challenge for smaller funds like…

Samyr Laine and Ayanna Alexander-Laine now put their grit and determination to work for founders wanting to launch and scale consumer brands.

We’ve poked through the many product announcements made by the biggest tech companies and product trade shows of the year, so far, and compiled them into this list.

Don’t call this company a “ghost kitchen.” Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability.

Being a solo GP hasn’t slowed Bilimoria a bit. He went on to raise three additional funds and has now closed a new fund to invest in biotech, climate and…

Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, to create structured cuts of meat.

The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest.

The hotel guest management technology company’s platform digitizes the hotel guest journey from post-booking through checkout.

InScope leverages machine learning and large language models to provide financial reporting and auditing processes for mid-market and enterprises.

RetailReady targets the $40 billion compliance market to help reduce the number of retail compliance losses that shippers incur annually due to incorrectly shipped packages.

Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over $450 million.

Prolific Machines believes it has a way of transitioning away from molecules to something better: light.

Torpago’s Powered By product is geared for regional and community banks, with under $20 billion in assets, to launch their own branded cards and spend management programs.

After growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energy sector.

Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, along with three general partners, manage $1.5 billion in assets today through their Build, Venture and Seed strategies.

It’s a lofty goal to take on legacy payments infrastructure, however, Forward’s model has an advantage by shifting the economics back to SaaS companies.