Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on why prediction markets went mainstream┃StrictlyVC SFKalshi is the largest prediction market in America, creating an entire trading economy around political, sports, and cultural events. To some, including several states, it's an illegal effort that requires gambling licenses. To others, among which include some courts and members of the Trump administration, it's just a new financial opportunity. TechCrunch Senior Reporter Maxwell Zeff covered all of that, ...
Mach CEO Ethan Thornton on what it's like to run a defense tech company in your 20s┃StrictlyVC SFMach CEO Ethan Thornton has been building weapons systems of varying shapes and sizes since high school, but his ambitions have turned into a company that recently landed a contract with the US military and a plan to develop cross-functional factories. TechCrunch Senior Reporter Charles Rollet interviewed Thornton during the StrictlyVC 2025 event in San Francisco, exploring the Mach's plans...
Forerunner Founder Kirsten Green on why AI has opened a new era in Venture Capital ┃StrictlyVC SFForerunner has seen a number of high-profile successes in their investments, showing an ability to get ahead of consumer trends with investments in Oura, Chime, the Farmer's Dog and beyond in non-B2C companies. And to get a sense of how that happened, and what's next for Forerunner in the AI era, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos spoke with their Founder and Managing Partner Kirsten ...
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's pitch on the city's rebound┃StrictlyVC SFThe perception of San Francisco has been on the decline for years due to a number of factors, and the city's Mayor Daniel Lurie joined TechCrunch Senior Reporter Maxwell Zeff to talk about his efforts to turn that around. Lurie highlighted his administrative, and on-the-ground efforts, in a conversation the particularly encapsulates the push for San Francisco to remain the center of the startup community, and A...
Trump tariff's swift impacts, from Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen┃StrictlyVC SFFlexport's business is built on supply chains, and the new tariffs the U.S. is placing upon its trading partners have plunged international trade into chaos. Its founder and CEO Ryan Petersen joined TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos for a StrictlyVC conversation on the ins and outs of the tariffs' impact, the industry's reaction and why Petersen still sees long-term opportunity in global trade. StrictlyV...
Spy games in HR tech: Inside Rippling’s wild lawsuit against DeelRippling’s latest lawsuit (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/rippling-sues-deel-deel-denies-all-legal-wrongdoing-and-slack-is-the-main-witness/) reads less like a legal filing and more like the plot of a corporate espionage thriller, complete with secret crypto payments, an alleged mole, and a fake Slack channel trap. This week, the HR tech startup publicly named the employee at the center of its case (https://te...
The Nintendo Switch 2, hands-on: It’s pretty good! | TechCrunchAt a presentation unveiling the Nintendo Switch 2, longtime Nintendo producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed that at one point, he considered calling the Switch’s successor the “Super Nintendo Switch.” It’s not that the Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t super – TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling would go out on a limb and call it the Pretty Good Nintendo Switch. Rather, the Switch 2 tries to take a console that’s already...
Inside Lucid Motors' Gravity SUV | TechCrunchLucid Motors plans to resume customer deliveries for its new all-electric Gravity SUV at the end of April. Getting the Gravity into customer hands is a big milestone for Lucid, whose success will hinge on being able to offer vehicle types popular with American drivers.
Startup Battlefield winner Salva Health is changing the game in breast cancer detectionSix years ago, while researching for a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates due to late detection. Today, Agudelo is the co-founder and CEO of Salva Health (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/29...
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