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First Republic Bank (FRB), which teetered on the brink of collapse in the weeks following the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, has finally collapsed, but with a relatively quick fix for the next chapter: Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ) announced that it was being shut down by the California Department of Financial Protection … Read more

In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will likely need to use the technology to up their game when analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing – or someone else will just beat them to it. Alison is an Israeli startup that analyzes creative work such as characters, colors, sounds and text. It … Read more

MinRegion disrupts 2023 will take place September 19–21 in San Francisco and — if you don’t already know — it’s the big tent of the startup world. It attracts founders, investors, CEOs, tech professionals, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs. Here you will find inspiration, gain knowledge, forge new relationships and discover tools to build … Read more

The Wall Street Journal went under the hood of the lab-grown meat industry, also known as cultured or cell-grown meat, and the struggles within it. The Journal specifically took a look at what’s going on at UPSIDE Foods, which received a blessing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its process of making farm-raised … Read more

There are noodles of benefits to having a diverse workforce, but, as inBeta founder James Nash points out, you can’t simply take your homogeneous workforce, add diversity, agitate, and hope for the best. Often something subtle stands in the way of diversity in startups: companies depend on employee referrals in the beginning, but if the … Read more

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced look at this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox here. Tech’s guiding principles aren’t that hard to come by these days: discipline, focus, and money conservation. But I’ve always found those same concerns to be … Read more