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Email newsletters are making a comeback

Curated email newsletters are making a comeback as consumers seek intentional, handpicked online experiences over algorithm-driven mass messaging, reflecting a…

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Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to convert factory video into live data

Almetra, a Berlin-based startup, raised €16.3 million in Series A funding to scale its camera-based system that converts live factory…

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Slate Auto prices EV pickup at $24,950, opens preorders with 180,000 reservations

Slate Auto priced its electric pickup truck at $24,950 and opened preorders with $300 nonrefundable deposits, claiming profitability from day…

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Qualcomm Acquires Chip Startup Modular for $4 Billion

Qualcomm has acquired chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion, issuing 19.2 million shares of common stock, with the deal…

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Agility Robotics Eyes $2.5B Public Debut Via SPAC

Agility Robotics is reportedly pursuing a SPAC merger that could value the company at around $2.5 billion, though the deal's…

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Former Infosys CEO launches startup to disrupt IT services

Vishal Sikka, former Infosys CEO, launched Hang Ten Systems with a $32 million seed round to use AI for continuously…

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Tissium secures €60M for sutureless nerve repair

Tissium secured €60M in financing (€30M Series D2 and €30M EIB credit line) to bring its FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair…

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Riviera Partners Buys AI Recruiter Lateral Labs Amid Executive Talent War

Riviera Partners, an executive search firm backed by Insight Partners, has acquired Lateral Labs, a recruiter for AI startups, to…

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Measuring Paid Social’s Impact on Search Ads

Paid social ads often create demand that gets attributed to paid search due to last-click attribution, making it difficult to…

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Valor Equity Partners targets $2.5B for Fund VII

Valor Equity Partners is raising Fund VII with a $2.5 billion target, having filed paperwork with the SEC last year.…

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Walmart’s $1.4B Vibe.co Deal Signals Major Ad Push

Walmart is paying $1.4 billion for Vibe.co, over three times its $410 million valuation from nine months ago, highlighting the…

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Hadrian Denied $7.5B Valuation in Physical-AI Bet

Hadrian Automation, a startup building AI-driven factories for aerospace and defense, has dismissed a Bloomberg report of a $7.5 billion…

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Last 4 Days: Save $190 on Founder Summit 2026

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 takes place on November 4 in Boston, bringing together over 1,000 founders and investors for a…

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Fika Jobs Raises $4M for AI-Powered Video Interview Platform

Fika Jobs, a Stockholm-based startup, has launched a video-first hiring platform that uses AI-powered video interviews to highlight candidate personality…

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I Left a Google Job I Loved – Staying Was Scarier Than Leaving

A former Google engineer left a fulfilling, secure job to launch an AI startup with her podcast cohost, driven by…

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MoEngage bets on millions of AI agents for marketing future

MoEngage acquired San Francisco-based startup Aampe for tens of millions of dollars to integrate personalized AI agents that make independent…

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Honkai: Nexus Anima Evolution Test launches July 9

The Honkai: Nexus Anima Evolution Test begins July 9 on PC, iOS, and Android, with player registration now open via…

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Agent Beacon: Open-Source Telemetry for AI Agents

Asymptote Labs launched Beacon, an open-source telemetry framework designed to provide real-time observability into AI coding agents by capturing actions…

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Menlo Ventures raises $3B fund after big bet on Anthropic pays off

Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion in its largest fundraising ever, driven largely by the soaring value of its AI investments,…

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HaloBraid raises $7M to replace six-hour salon appointments

HaloBraid is a new robotics startup that created a braiding assistant device to dramatically reduce the time professional stylists spend…

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