How Mill closed the deal with Amazon and Whole Foods

[ad_1] Mill may have started with households, but co-founder and CEO Matt Rogers says the food waste startup has long aspired to expand to commercial customers. “This has been part of our plan since our Series A deck,” Rogers told TechCrunch. Now, with an official deal locked in with Amazon …

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The 9 top biotech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

[ad_1] Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But …

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Waymo explains why its robotaxis got stuck during the SF blackout

[ad_1] Waymo is shipping a software update to help its robotaxis navigate disabled traffic lights during power outages “more decisively,” the company said Tuesday in a blog post that explains why its self-driving vehicles got stuck at intersections during a blackout in San Francisco this past weekend. Waymo said the …

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The year data centers went from backend to center stage

[ad_1] There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of interest for folks outside of the tech industry, let alone an issue of particularly captivating …

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