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Hello again mates, and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, December 27.

I continue to captain the USS Cruncherprise although Alex is out on holiday vacation. If you are lacking his wit and wisdoms, worry not: He’ll be again following week.

As I stated last week, the information cycle tends to get a little bit quieter in these previous months of December — so expect these everyday recaps to be a little bit extra compact accordingly. We need to be back again in the entire swing of issues next 7 days, if only since which is when CES is taking place. (And, sure, it’s evidently continue to taking place, irrespective of a selection of the major firms pulling out.)

—Greg

The TechCrunch Leading 3

• Remembering the startups we misplaced in 2021: Houseparty! Dark Sky! Loon! A number of members of the TC staff set alongside one another a checklist of the goods, jobs and tech businesses that shut down (or introduced designs to shutdown) this year. Fry’s Electronics receives an honorable point out due to the fact, though it was hardly a startup, its shutdown leaves a huge “pyramid-shaped hole in the hearts of numerous who grew up wandering its aisles.”
• TC’s fav issues: Group TC also place jointly its yearly record of its “favorite things” of the calendar year, with “things” outlined … as, effectively, nearly anything. We appreciate accomplishing this just one it finishes up currently being a big mish-mashed checklist of things truly worth recognizing about (I definitely simply cannot halt listening to Kirsten’s air visitors controller songs suggestion), and doubles as a tiny glimpse into the in-the-moment headspaces of the folks who hold this put going.
• Is accessibility consciousness resulting in superior accessibility? Providers are doing a greater task of conversing about accessibility, but are their words leading to precise outcomes? Joe Devon, co-founder of the World Accessibility Awareness Day, usually takes us on a deep dive into the information.

Startups/VC

• Naren Gupta passes away: The co-founder of Nexus Venture Associates died on Saturday at the age of 73. Manish Singh shares information of Gupta’s lifetime, his many successes and how the venture capitalist helped “plant Indian SaaS startups on the…