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The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
Have you heard of Reg A? Neither had Austin Allison — until he used it to fund Pacaso, a real estate startup for luxury vacation homes.Allison, Pacaso’s cofounder and CEO, started the company with Spencer Rascoff. They were both veterans of the real estate and consumer technology industries when they launched Pacaso in 2020.Pacaso is a platform for fractional ownership of luxury vacation homes. The company facilitates the sale of properties in vacation destinations like Jackson Hole, Tuscany, and Napa, which are acquired through property-specific LLCs. Unlike timeshares, which allow multiple users the right to use a property for a…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. It’s gotta be the shoes! Why else would people be willing to drop at least $1,100 on a pair of sneakers? I’d never shell out that much but I am tempted to go try on Wall Street’s favorite pair of kicks.On the agenda today:But first: Are you leaving the money on the table?If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchGolden handcuffed Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Imagine you work for a company…
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, both 23, are turning heads with Phia, their AI fashion app that’s drawing interest from investors and trendsetters.Phia, an AI-powered shopping assistant, went live in April and said it has since amassed over 600,000 users. The free app and browser extension compare prices on fashion items across around 40,000 linked sites to help users find deals. It’s the pair’s first business, and it’s making waves with investors.Gates and Kianni raised $8 million in seed funding in September. The round was led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and included investors like Kris Jenner, Hailey Bieber,…
With the cost of health insurance set to rise, some Americans are asking a surprising question: Is it actually cheaper to get medical care without it?The short answer: Sometimes. But not often. And it may require a little — or a lot — of homework.Some hospitals and clinics offer self-pay or cash only discounts for patients who pay without insurance, skipping the paperwork and administrative fees that come with having coverage. Hospitals are required by federal law to make their discounted cash prices publicly available online. An allergy test or an X-ray, for example, may be a few hundred dollars…
In a 2009 interview, a 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg offered a grand prognosis on the human condition. “You have one identity,” the Facebook founder said. “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or coworkers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”At the time, his five-year-old social network was shaping the identities of more than 350 million people. Like Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their mission to “organize the world’s information” with Google, like Steve…
HLTH is one of the biggest and flashiest healthcare conferences of the year, so it’s no surprise that 2025’s edition delivered the health AI hype in full force.But beneath the sheen lurked mounting AI fatigue, fears of formidable new competitors, and a plaguing awareness of an AI bubble.Healthcare VC is facing many of the same boons, and the same predicaments, as the tech world, albeit hundreds of billions of dollars short. Investors are pouring money into top startups promising enterprise savings, while critics fear those tools won’t pay off as expected. Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft, as well…
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. (AP) — Gunfire erupted during outdoor festivities at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University late Saturday, killing one person and wounding six others as students and alumni celebrated homecoming at the historically Black school, authorities said.A person who had a firearm was detained, and officials are investigating the possibility that there was more than one shooter but don’t believe there is any active threat to the campus, Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said during a brief news conference early Sunday. “We don’t have a lot of answers about exactly what happened,” he said. “What I will tell you…
Food giant Hormel is recalling nearly 5 million pounds of chicken products after complaints that pieces of metal were found in food, officials said Saturday.There have not been any reports of injury, the Food Safety and Inspection Service under the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.The issue was discovered after “multiple complaints from foodservice customers finding metal in their frozen chicken breast and chicken thigh products.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHormel Foods Corp. found the metal came from a conveyor belt during production, the agency said.The chicken breast and thigh products were distributed to HRI Commercial Food Service nationwide between Feb. 10 and…