Kirsten Korosec
Kirsten Korosec connects the future of transportation with the business of technology, showing how mobility, robotics and AI companies turn complex engineering into revenue, valuations and market power. She is the transportation editor at TechCrunch and a tech editor overseeing climate, robotics, space and transportation coverage, reporting her own scoops while managing reporters across these beats. She focuses on the numbers and people behind startups and tech giants, bringing a finance-driven lens to stories about autonomous vehicles, EVs, physical AI and other businesses that move people and packages from A to B.
Future of mobility and transportation companies
Korosec’s core reporting tracks the companies reshaping mobility, from robotaxis and EVs to drones and next-generation ride-hailing platforms. Her TechCrunch Mobility coverage regularly follows Tesla, Waymo, Uber and other players through product launches, expansion plans and operational setbacks, tying those moves to market share and competitive dynamics. Recent newsletters and stories have examined Waymo’s efforts to push robotaxi services deeper into California cities and New York, the rise of dog-like delivery robots in Texas, and Walmart and Wing’s expansion of drone delivery to more U.S. cities.
She also covers new vehicle categories, such as Rivian’s first electric bike designed with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, linking design decisions to brand strategy and growth ambitions.
Her mobility coverage is structured around what these companies are building, where they deploy it and how those choices affect their economics. EVs dominate her stories about the most American-made cars index, for example, where she uses manufacturing and sourcing data to show how different automakers compete for “made in America” status.
Across this work, she treats transportation not as lifestyle or gadget coverage, but as an industrial and infrastructure story with clear winners, losers and balance-sheet consequences.
Robotaxis, safety and regulation
Korosec devotes sustained attention to robotaxis and the regulatory, safety and legal pressures that shape their rollout. Her coverage of Tesla’s robotaxis highlights how federal safety regulators are already scrutinizing the technology, framing regulatory interest as a material risk factor for the company’s plans.
She follows Waymo in similar detail, writing on approvals to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley, new city launches, and the recall of 1,200 robotaxis after low-speed collisions with gates and chains.
In TechCrunch Mobility newsletters, she digs into the hidden human cost of robotaxis, focusing on the workers, pedestrians and communities that bear the brunt of experimentation and deployment. Stories about decade-old patent disputes that could upend Uber’s business sit alongside pieces on lawmakers being lobbied over driverless vehicle rules, showing her interest in how legal frameworks and political pressure reshape business models.
She treats safety investigations, recalls and court fights as part of the financial story, assessing how they affect company valuations, growth narratives and long-term viability.
Financial performance, deals and AI hardware
Korosec’s coverage of Micron’s windfall from the memory chip crunch shows her finance orientation within the broader tech beat. In that story, she traces how the AI boom created a shortage of memory chips and then walks through Micron’s earnings, from a fourfold revenue jump to a surge in profit, tying those numbers to investor reaction and share price performance. She explains Micron’s forward guidance for revenue and its deal to supply Anthropic with memory and storage chips, including the company’s participation in Anthropic’s latest funding round, to show how strategic partnerships and capital flows intersect.
Beyond semiconductors, many TechCrunch Mobility editions spotlight valuations, fundraising and restructurings in transportation and AI-adjacent companies. She covers Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, Uber Freight’s AI bet, Tesla losing ground in Europe while BYD makes gains, and Nikola’s trucks hitting the auction block, presenting each as a case study in how capital markets reward or punish different strategies. As co-host of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, she joins discussions on AI moves, the economics of consumer AI, the shifting IPO market and notable startup deals, reinforcing her focus on financial outcomes and market structure across the tech landscape.
Data, privacy and connected vehicles
Korosec also reports on the data flows and software layers inside modern vehicles, treating them as business assets and privacy risks rather than background details.
In her piece on how cars and their mobile apps hand over all kinds of data to tech companies, she explores what information is collected, who gets access and how that data can be monetized, drawing a line from consumer behavior to corporate strategy. Related mobility coverage looks at how tools like Google’s Gemini are coming to cars, examining the implications of embedding AI assistants and connectivity deeper into the driving experience.
Across these stories, she shows how automakers, tech platforms and app providers build data ecosystems around vehicles, and how that influences regulation, consumer trust and competitive positioning. Combined with her reporting on AI hardware and software in transportation, this work positions her as a journalist who treats data and infrastructure as core ingredients in the financial and strategic story of mobility.
Korosec’s prior work for major business and technology publications and her role as co-founder and co-host of an autonomous vehicle podcast round out a profile grounded in the business of future transportation. Her reporting and editing consistently link mobility innovation, AI and robotics to earnings, valuations, regulatory exposure and human impact, making her coverage distinct from more generic tech or auto reporting.
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