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 As the country grapples with income inequality, a lack of affordable housing, and a potential labor crisis brought on by technological advancements like artificial intelligence and automation, Y Combinator president Sam Altman is launching a new initiative to try and create political solutions in his home state and potentially the nation. For the past year or more, Altman has been dabbling in… Read More from TechCrunch via April 23, 2018 at 01:00PM

 The venture capital firm Fifth Wall, an investor in construction and real-estate focused startups that is backed by some of the country’s largest real estate companies, is expanding into early stage investing with the launch of a new accelerator program. For the firm’s co-founder and co-managing partner Brendan Wallace, the accelerator is an opportunity to reach out to companies… Read More from TechCrunch via March 13, 2018 at 01:00PM

 Two years ago, Stephen Kane was looking for his next big idea. A lawyer who previously worked for the mega-firm O’Melveny & Myers and then spent time at Lex Machina, a software company that analyzed caselaw for lawyers, Kane was looking for the next new thing. That was when he hit on his latest idea, FaircCaims — an online service to resolve small claims cases. Kane calls it… Read More from TechCrunch via March 12, 2018 at 01:00PM

 With its Rappido subsidiary looking to become a marketplace for all sorts of online and delivery services, Movile is moving further along in its mission to become the Tencent of Latin America. Given its backing by Naspers (a large shareholder in Tencent — one of China’s e-commerce giants), the move to replicate a business model that’s worked so well for the investor… Read More from TechCrunch via December 09, 2017 at 01:00PM

 The perfume and makeup subscription service Scentbird intends to launch into the home and personal care markets in the fall. The New York-based company is already profitable, with 140,000 subscribers buying either its fragrance subscription or its Deck of Scarlet makeup service that launched last fall, co-founder and chief executive Mariya Nurislamova told me. “Subscriptions are doing… Read More from TechCrunch via December 05, 2017 at 01:00PM

 Venture capital’s national association has come out swinging against the Trump administration’s decision to delay the International Entrepreneur Rule. A product of the final days of President Obama’s administration, the rule was designed to let talented immigrant entrepreneurs stay in the U.S. to build their companies. The two-and-a-half year period that immigrants would have… Read More from TechCrunch via December 04, 2017 at 01:00PM

 Hey St. Louis, come hang out tonight. I’m going to be passing through “the Gateway to the West” today and thought it’d be great to meet any and all of y’all who might want to come out and say hello. Read More from TechCrunch via October 05, 2017 at 01:00PM