Tag: Start-ups
F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta
WASHINGTON — Early in her tenure as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan declared that she…
Loans Could Burn Start-Up Workers in Downturn
SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Bolt Financial, a payments start-up, began a new program for its employees. They…
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
By 15, Ms. Britt Cool was president of the local farmers’ market, collecting dues from dozens of vendors.…
Stripe, the Payments Start-Up, Lowers Internal Valuation 28 Percent
Stripe, a payments start-up that has been one of the most valuable privately held tech companies in Silicon…
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, scientists in laboratories from Silicon Valley to Boston have been searching for…
Theranos Executive Ramesh Balwani Found Guilty of 12 Counts of Fraud
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ramesh Balwani, a former top executive at Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of…
Start-Up Funding Falls the Most It Has Since 2019
SAN FRANCISCO — For the first time in three years, start-up funding is dropping.The numbers are stark. Investments…
3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots
DEVENS, Mass. — The machines stand 20 feet high, weigh 60,000 pounds and represent the technological frontier of…
Substack Is Laying Off 14% of Its Staff
Substack, the newsletter start-up that has attracted prominent writers including George Saunders and Salman Rushdie, laid off 13…
Fusion Energy Advance Is Hailed by a Seattle Start-Up
Zap Energy, a fusion energy start-up working on a low-cost path to producing electricity commercially, said last week…
Closing Statements Begin in Trial of Sunny Balwani
For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business…
Inside Kraken’s Culture War Stoked by Its C.E.O.
Jesse Powell, a founder and the chief executive of Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, recently…