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Alpine Eagle secures funding from European backers for counter-drone tech amid rising threats

The war in Ukraine has brought drones to the forefront of modern warfare, creating a surge in demand for counter-drone systems. However, legacy solutions to counter drones, such as ground-based defen…

00:05:29 | Mon 10 Mar 2025

Turing raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in that effort is announcing a significant roun…

00:04:45 | Mon 10 Mar 2025

Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million

CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more t…

00:04:53 | Fri 07 Mar 2025

From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Foun…

00:10:50 | Fri 07 Mar 2025

Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage

The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around battery technologies, as storage has a key role to play in enabling the green tra…

00:08:36 | Thu 06 Mar 2025

Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands US Army contract, builds weapons factory

Sequoia-backed Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, landed a contract with the U.S. Army and has plans for its first factory, Thornton told TechCrunch. The factory…

00:04:14 | Thu 06 Mar 2025

Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals

With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all “made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to…

00:05:02 | Wed 05 Mar 2025

Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security

The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the w…

00:05:42 | Wed 05 Mar 2025

Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service

Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-later loans to specialized neo banks to yet more payment processing systems. Wh…

00:03:44 | Tue 04 Mar 2025

Workhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI

AI has the power to transform how people work, but getting tangible value out of AI isn’t as easy as throwing any AI application at any workflow. It can be hard for enterprises to figure out which AI…

00:05:37 | Tue 04 Mar 2025

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model

Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a …

00:03:56 | Mon 03 Mar 2025

Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery

Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure around e-commerce, effectively ‘Uberising’ how deliveries worked down to the l…

00:03:54 | Mon 03 Mar 2025

Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI

Birdgetown Research has raised $19 million in a round co-led by Accel and Lightspeed to deploy AI agents for business decisions and M&A deals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c…

00:04:28 | Fri 28 Feb 2025

Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training

Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as gene…

00:05:02 | Fri 28 Feb 2025

Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business

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00:05:12 | Thu 27 Feb 2025

Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI

“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rush…

00:06:05 | Thu 27 Feb 2025

Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform

For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation. Learn more ab…

00:05:03 | Wed 26 Feb 2025

AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say