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  • Oculus co-founder and games industry vets form Mountaintop Studios

    Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell is heading up a new game development house called Mountaintop Studios, joined by colleagues from around the gaming industry. The company aims to leave the crunch and toxic culture pervasive in game studios behind and make one that’s “collaborative, anti-crunch, diverse and inclusive.”The founding team More

    Oculus co-founder and games industry vets form Mountaintop Studios
  • The virtual state of corporate venture capital today

    BIll Taranto Contributor GHI Fund President Bill Taranto has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry and has 15 years of experience in healthcare investing. In addition to his venture investing knowledge, Bill has decades of management operations experience. More posts by this contributor Corporate venture business strategies that work When the going More

    The virtual state of corporate venture capital today
  • Startups Weekly: US visa freeze is latest reason to build

    Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here.While the US tech industry relentlessly tries to do business with the rest of the world, this week it became further embroiled in national politics. High-skill immigration visas have More

    Startups Weekly: US visa freeze is latest reason to build remote-first
  • TuSimple seeking $250 million in new funding to scale self-driving

    TuSimple, the self-driving truck startup backed by Sina, Nvidia, UPS and Tier 1 supplier Mando Corporation, is headed back into the marketplace in search of new capital from investors. The company has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to help it raise $250 million, according to multiple sources familiar with More

    TuSimple seeking $250 million in new funding to scale self-driving trucks
  • IPOs that could happen soon, cannot happen soon enough

    Earlier today we took a look at two companies that have filed to go public, nCino and GoHealth. The pair join Lemonade in a march toward the public markets.But those three firms are hardly alone. We know that DoorDash filed privately earlier this year (it also raised a pile of More

    IPOs that could happen soon, cannot happen soon enough