Julie Bort

Startups and VC desk editor, TechCrunch. Formerly Business Insider, IDG, author of two books. I'm a mom, skier and mountain biker.

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

Apple is suing OpenAI alleging some jaw-dropping things about how OpenAI was poaching Apple employees. @SarahPerezTC has the details.
https://t.co/M9GXX6a8Nn

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

@hw_cafe_nyc Trolling for another C&D letter today, are we?

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

https://t.co/HUTihhsHIg

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

and the TechCrunch article by @Julie188 https://t.co/L7VFcg6Xdz

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

We've extended applications to Disrupt's Startup Battlefield through Monday, June 8th, due to popular demand. If you know of an early stage startup that's doing exciting stuff, let us know here.
https://t.co/eqPazQZC7d

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

I'm speaking to Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman later today. Please send me your questions.

[Jim Prosser @jimprosser]

Had a coffee this week with a recent-former CCO of a public tech co who told me their execs created voice models of themselves with @ElevenLabs so they didn’t have to record their quarterly earnings prepared remarks anymore.

[Aaron @aaronp613]

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files in today's Apple Support app update (v5.13)

[Adrian Salamunovic @asalamunovic]

@adamlyttleapps I literally broke the news to TechCrunch while it was removed because I wanted to warn other developers so I reached out to @Julie188 right away - good to see it got covered by @SarahPerezTC - I made a post about it https://t.co/jH3blFjN1r

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

This is art

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

Sorry, but it just had to be done.

[Ben James @BenJames_____]

I made a USB-Clawd who gets my attention when Claude Code finishes a response

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

Applications are open for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield. If you are pitching your pre-seed; seed startup to my email inbox, please apply! If your company is exciting (even if I don't bite and write about it), it might just win! https://t.co/9XVbs9nywT

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

@ishaan_jaff @GergelyOrosz @dlewis ah, interesting. doing a short post about it since I wrote about it in the first place. Hope things are back to normal for you now and am watching for the incident report.

[AWS Newsroom @AWSNewsroom]

We took tech editor @Julie188 inside Amazon's custom chip lab. During the visit, Julie walked through rows of workstations topped with open server sleds, watched an engineer weld tiny integrated circuit components by way of microscope, and snapped a selfie with chip PR lead @DoronAronson inside the lab’s mini data center.

Dive deep into the tour with @TechCrunch: https://t.co/uzeV8cda9u

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

@Sherveen @TechCrunch Ok! done!

[Lauren Goode @LaurenGoode]

Welcome to the era of Aaas 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Julie Bort @Julie188]

NanoClaw creator is living a dream right now. Such a cool developer success story, in large part because @karpathy took a look and had a convo. We'll see what the future holds. https://t.co/YXBhMn1WpS

[kartikey singh @askwhykartik]

Here is a list of all startup accelerators you can apply to right now:

@ycombinator ($500k for ~7%)
@a16z ($750k-$1M for ~7-10%)
@pioneerdotapp ($20k for 1%)
@the_mint_vc ($500k for 10%)
@angelpad ($120k for 7%)
@techstars ($220k for ~5-7%)
@500GlobalVC ($112.5k for 6%)
@EFStartups ($250k for ~9%)
@southparkcommon ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
@sequoia ($1M)
@pearvc ($250k-$2M)
@greylock (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits)
@conviction ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
@openai ($1M equity investment)
@StartupWiseGuys (up to €65k for equity)
@apxaccel (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%)
@southparkcommon ($150k for 5-10%)
@seedcamp (€100k-€200k for 7-7.5%)
@antlervc (€100k for 10% + stipend / $200k-$250k for 8-9%)
@googlestartups (up to $100k)
@accel (up to $500k-$1M)
@aigrant ($250k uncapped)
@aforecapital ($100k-$500k)
@BoostVC (up to $500k for 15%)

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

I wanna see the CEO of Concur doing an expense report.