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Pitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck
Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front.
Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022
Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years.
TechCrunch Space: Star(side)liner
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ETF Partners raises €284M for climate startups that will be effective quickly — not 20 years down the road
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Expressable brings speech therapy into the home
Expressable is a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists.
ESA prepares for the post-ISS era, selects The Exploration Company, Thales Alenia to develop cargo spacecraft
The European Space Agency selected two companies on Wednesday to advance designs of a cargo spacecraft that could establish the continent’s first sovereign access to space.
US pharma giant Cencora says Americans’ health information stolen in data breach
About half a million patients have been notified so far, but the number of affected individuals is likely far higher.
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change.
SpaceX sent Starship to orbit — the next launch will try to bring it back
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket could take to the skies for the fourth time on June 5, with the primary objective of evaluating the second stage’s reusable…
Mill’s redesigned food waste bin really is faster and quieter than before
The design brief was simple: each grind and dry cycle had to be completed before breakfast.
General Catalyst-backed Jasper Health lays off staff
Jasper Health, a cancer care platform startup, laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned.
Unity co-founder David Helgason’s next act: Gaming the climate crisis
In an interview at his home near Reykjavík, the entrepreneur-turned-VC shared thoughts on his ventures and the journey that led him from Unity to climate tech, a homecoming of sorts.
Someone Just Paid Over $1 Million For This One-Of-A-Kind Counter-Strike Skin
A skin for Counter-Strike’s ever-popular AK-47 just became the most expensive skin ever sold publicly for the game.
Boeing’s Starliner overcomes leaks and engine trouble to dock with ‘the big city in the sky’
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has successfully delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station, a key milestone in the aerospace giant’s quest to certify the capsule for regular crewed missions.
NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others
It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars.
Anterior grabs $20M from NEA to expedite health insurance approvals with AI
Anterior, a company that uses AI to expedite health insurance approval for medical procedures, has raised a $20 million Series A round at a $95 million post-money valuation led by NEA, according to two people familiar with the deal.
After hits like Reddit and Scopley, Collaborative Fund easily raised a $125M fund to tackle climate, health and food
After hits like Reddit and Scopley, Collaborative Fund easily raised a $125M fund to tackle climate, health and food “We were motivated to fundraise because we think the ’24 vintage is going to be a good one,” founder Craig Shapiro said.
TechCrunch Space: A week that will go down in history
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Apex’s off-the-shelf satellite bus business attracts $95M in new funding
Fresh off the success of its first mission, satellite manufacturer Apex has closed $95 million in new capital to scale its operations.
Subscription vitamin company Care/of is shutting down
Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of Monday, June 17 and will no longer be accepting new orders.
TechCrunch Space: A new era for human spaceflight research
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SpaceX debuts portable Starlink Mini for $599
SpaceX unveiled Starlink Mini, a more portable version of its satellite internet product that is small enough to fit inside a backpack.
Khosla-backed Marble, built by former Headway founders, offers affordable group therapy for teens
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TechCrunch Space: Building (and testing) for the future
It’s becoming a habit to open each TechCrunch Space newsletter with a bit of an update on Boeing’s Starliner mission, so bear with me.