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Helloooo! Due to the fact our final Daily Crunch, our adrenaline-fueled TechCrunch group has included a lot more than 70 stories to the website. We’re selecting out some of the best down below, but we’ll pretty much undoubtedly miss out on a tale you want you’d browse. Give our homepage a fast scroll to see what strikes your extravagant! — Christine and Haje

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• Tim Prepare dinner and inexperienced bubbles: Christine is an Android user and her Iphone-employing buddies communicate about “green bubbles,” but till now she did not know this was a challenge. Christine’s text bubbles appear in all unique colors and even tells her who is “speaking” when in a team. Even so, she’s now uncovered that her Iphone-working with good friends secretly detest her environmentally friendly bubbles. Tim Prepare dinner is on their facet, Ivan writes.
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• Electric powered vroom: Jeep has 3, 3 new electrical motor vehicles, ah ah ah!, poised to enter the market place commencing in 2023, Jaclyn reviews.

Startups and VC

It is day 2 of Y Combinator-vaganza, which means we have buckets and buckets of news for you. Assuming information arrives in buckets, but that is a conversation for a different day.

Tage reports that YC’s most current batch cuts African startup presence by additional than 50 %, and Anna, Alex and Tage are curious where Y Combinator is startup-hunting in 2022. And Kyle explored 7 AI startups that stood out among the the YC hopefuls, and a load of TechCrunch writers selected our 11 beloved firms from Working day 1 and Day 2 and the moonshots.

Whew. In addition to YC, Apple ran an party yesterday, and boy did we go over a bunch of that, way too. Thankfully, Christine has you coated on that front in the Large Tech section beneath.

Here’s a few much more for ya:

5 metrics Sequence A buyers glimpse for at dev-tools startups

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The median Sequence A for developer-tooling corporations fell to $47.5 million in Q3 2022, “the least expensive it has been since the beginning of 2021,” writes Rak Garg, a principal at Bain Money.

Soon after meeting with hundreds of firms due to the fact the start off of the downturn, Garg has published a fundraising guide for seed-stage founders who are hoping to attain the future level.

“I’ve seen a popular attribute amongst founders who have elevated productive Collection A rounds: They are terrific at telling their companies’ stories,” states Garg.

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Major Tech Inc.

So much Apple, so little time. The Apple Apple iphone 14 event dominated our news cycle for the second day, particularly this a person by Greg, who we believe nicely summed up every little thing from the celebration. If you want to go through each individual drooling element, head over to the Apple tumble function hub.

Talking of issues to drool about, Christine wrote a short piece about Bloomingdale’s obtaining into the metaverse with its new virtual shop that seems to be like it will give you purse envy.