Haje Jan Kamps

Reporter, TechCrunch

At TechCrunch, Haje (He/Him) covers general tech news and focuses mostly on hardware. He has founded several companies to varying degrees of success, spent a while in the VC world, and has been a journalist and TV producer since the dawn of his career. He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors, and you can find him on @Haje on Twitter (yes, really), or at Haje.me for everything else. Disclosures.

Haje Jan Kamps

The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It’s a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam…

Apple’s Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once

Yeah, you can put an OLED screen in an iPad, but then you lose the brightness that iPad Pro users are used to. What is a poor computer maker to…

Apple stacks two OLED screens — ‘Tandem OLED’ — in its new iPad Pro

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper…

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Musk’s…

Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions?

ButcherBox is known for grinding its way forward, bootstrapping to more than $600 million worth of revenue. The company hasn’t traditionally been on the M&A path, but today it announced…

ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle

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Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup

“When an investor passes on you, they will not tell you the real reason,” said Tom Blomfield, group partner at Y Combinator. “At seed stage, frankly, no one knows what’s going to fucking happen. The future is so uncertain. All they’re judging is the perceived quality of the founder. When they pass, what they’re thinking…

11:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Ticktock,…

So are we banning TikTok or what? Also: Can an influencer really tank an $800M company?

Aside from the crucial omission of an Ask and Use of Funds slide, just about every slide in the deck felt almost very good — but then stumbled by overlooking…

Pitch Deck Teardown: NOQX’s $200K pre-seed deck

The Poetry Camera takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating poetry based on the visuals it encounters.

This camera trades pictures for AI poetry

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. After…

Startups Weekly: Is the wind going out of the AI sails?

While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Geodesic.Life’s $500K pre-seed deck

Once a Kickstarter campaign is complete, you need to turn to a creator’s own page to buy the products after the campaign clock has ticked down — that is, until…

Kickstarter launches ‘late pledges’ for completed campaigns

From remote work to magnetic keyboard switches, we have your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups.

Startups Weekly: So are we all working from home now?

Xpanceo has shared its complete presentation deck, consisting of 19 slides. Dive into its pitch deck to learn how the company raised $40 million.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Xpanceo’s $40M seed deck

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Fellow steps away from its usual grind with $365 Aiden coffee machine

Coffee is a beverage, sure, but to many people, it’s more than that. It’s a ritual to find a pause in the day, rewarded by a tasty jolt of caffeine. For many years, Fellow has been top of mind for those looking to embrace the ritual. It’s a bit of a surprise, then, to see…

7:30 am PDT • April 12, 2024
Fellow steps away from its usual grind with $365 Aiden coffee machine

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to receive the Startups Weekly newsletter in your inboxes. It’s…

Startups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this time

This week we look at Queerie, a dating app aimed specifically at LGBTQIA+ folks. It’s a very early-stage company that’s raising just $300,000.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Queerie’s $300K pre-seed deck

Nightside is the brainchild of Jess Gupta. The $350 LED bedside lamp is an intentionally simple product. It doesn’t have Wi-Fi or Alexa built in, but it does have a…

Nightside’s ambient lamp rethinks the reading light

For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer months for use during the winter has remained…

Photoncycle targets low-cost energy storage with a clever hydrogen solution

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Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport

Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later, however, it’s clear that the initial pitch was merely the tip of the startup’s heating/cooling iceberg. TechCrunch recently sat down with Clay Alexander, the firm’s founder and chairman, to take…

10:42 am PDT • March 31, 2024
Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. There’s…

Startups Weekly: Big shake-ups at the AI heavyweights

It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I…

Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck

In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma businesses face between leveraging AI’s power while ensuring data…

Pitch Deck Teardown: Protecto’s $4M seed deck

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Helloooo,…

Startups Weekly: What goes up must come down

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — often referred to as “strong AI,” “full AI,” “human-level AI” or “general intelligent action” — represents a significant future leap in the field of artificial…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away

Nvidia’s keynote at GTC on Monday held some surprises. In a way, it was a return to the company’s original mission.

Nvidia’s keynote at GTC held some surprises

Nvidia benefits tremendously if it can persuade companies to think of data centers and AI tools in a different way.

Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Pornhub…

Pornhub says, ‘Bad Texas! No smut for you!’

The company is promising to make marketing for games easier, and we know that great marketing is one of the crucial differences between an OK outcome and a smash-hit success.

Pitch Deck Teardown: SuperScale’s $5.4M Series A deck

To say that it’s rocky out in the metal 3D printing world may be a bit of an understatement. Almost a decade ago, Desktop Metal was one of the early…

Fluent Metal takes a stab at the metal 3D printing market