Startups

Genesis AI, a startup developing foundation models for robotics, is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in new funding…

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield returns to Australia on August 19 in partnership with Stripe, where eight startups will compete at Stripe…

SoftBank is reportedly in talks to acquire Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that retrofits standard excavators with autonomous technology for…

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected Wise's bid for a national trust bank charter, causing its…

Many marketing campaigns fail because they list multiple competing goals (e.g., awareness, registrations, and website traffic) without prioritizing a single…

Corgi, an AI-powered insurance startup, is closing another funding round (a B2 extension) just weeks after its last raise, reportedly…

78.9% of agent-generated pull requests are reviewed and merged by a single developer, a pattern that holds even among the…

Hackers are using AI to launch highly personalized spear-phishing attacks via email, which has become the primary battlefield for cyberattacks.…

Companies now require SEO professionals to be memorable, not just competent, as competency is the minimum standard for an interview…

Imagi, co-founded by Dora Palfi, raised a $4.5 million seed round to expand its K-12 platform teaching coding, basic computer…

Volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 provides a free three-day pass, hands-on experience producing a premier startup conference, and direct networking…

Psibot, a Chinese startup founded last year, is raising nearly $100 million at a $1.48 billion valuation led by automaker…

Glow, a cybersecurity startup co-founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, launched from stealth with a $1.2 billion valuation after…

A federal judge dismissed key DMCA claims by Google against data scraping service SerpApi on July 20, permanently tossing claims…

Travis Kalanick's robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and notably Uber, with Ben…

SoundCloud has acquired Nina Protocol, a decentralized music platform that allowed independent artists to keep 100% of their revenue, marking…

Yope raised $12.3 million in a funding round led by Northzone to build an ad-free, algorithm-free social platform centered on…

Anthropic achieved a staggering $47 billion revenue run rate by May, up from $9 billion in 2025, a growth trajectory…

Arrakis has raised $38 million in total funding ($30 million Series A led by Blossom Capital and $7.5 million seed…

Revolut's valuation surged 53% to $115 billion in a secondary share sale, making it the most valuable private fintech globally,…