Tesla’s Stock Jumps After Trump’s Victory

Investors believe that the electric car company led by Elon Musk will benefit from his support of the president-elect.

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Pinstripe wants to redefine the way online sellers sell secondhand clothing

Pinstripe aims to reimagine the secondhand market by offering sellers the opportunity to have both a digital storefront and a physical retail presence. Launched in June, the platform offers an alternative approach compared with other marketplaces like Archive, Depop, Facebook Marketplace, and Poshmark. With Pinstripe, sellers take their clothes to local consignment stores, vintage shops, […]
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What Trump’s victory could mean for AI regulation

A grueling election cycle has come to a close. Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the U.S., and, with Republicans in control of the Senate — and possibly the House — his allies are poised to bring sea change to the highest levels of government. The effects will be acutely felt in the […]
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AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe

By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning. AI coding may one day involve agents that can write the programs themselves based on a natural language […]
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How Trump’s election could affect the startup-friendly Inflation Reduction Act

While Trump’s administration is unlikely to be supportive of certain climate tech startups, it will have a harder time ending the broadly popular law.
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What Musk could gain from a Trump presidency

One of the president-elect’s most visible supporters, Musk could be given a role in Trump’s White House.

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What’s next for the startup-friendly Inflation Reduction Act

While Trump’s administration is unlikely to be supportive of most climate tech startups, it will have a harder time ending the broadly popular law.
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‘For You’ feeds fail on election night, offering outdated information, angering users

“For You” algorithms that promote the most interesting content across a social network, personalized to the individual user, offered a disjointed, outdated, and nearly unusable experience on election night in the U.S. as they highlighted hours-old posts that no longer reflected the current state of the race. Frustrations were particularly high on Threads, Meta’s X […]
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Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app

It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. Lyft announced Wednesday three separate partnerships — with startup May Mobility, automated driving company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar — all aimed at establishing a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market. In the announcement, the ride-hailing company said […]
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Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M

The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the last couple of years. The value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023, according to Dealroom data, with venture investment of €2.2 billion across some 850 rounds. Meanwhile, Portugal has produced a slew of […]
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