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Julie Bort

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Startups and VC Desk Editor at TechCrunch

Startups and VC desk editor, TechCrunch. Formerly Business Insider, IDG, author of two books. I'm a mom, skier and mountain biker.

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  • 5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Julie Bort

    Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26. That’s an up-to-$11.2-billion market cap. At the mid-range, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful of investors, including European VC powerhouse Cathay Innovation, who plan to sell some shares in the IPO. Even in these slow IPO times, this wouldn’t be the biggest IPO of 2025.

  • 1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Julie Bort

    If the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution you may have experienced before — mobile, social, cloud computing — it actually is. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page slideshow report — which used the word “unprecedented” on 51 of those pages — to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used, backed up with chart after chart.

  • 1 week ago | technewstube.com | Julie Bort

    Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.

  • 1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Julie Bort

    On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder, Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as saying in the post.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Julie Bort

    NowMeta and Anduril defense startup partner on VR, AR project intended for U.S. ArmyMeta and Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, announced Thursday that they've formed a partnership to create virtual and …1 day agoWhat founders need to know about tech’s growing influence in DCListen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify “Startup culture may be great for putting out a new app or building a successful company, but not for distributing tens of millions of people’s benefits.

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