TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
- Update frequency
- every day
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- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Spore.Bio raises $23M to apply machine learning to microbiology testing
Recalls in the food and beverage industry due to contamination incidents can have catastrophic effects. Not only do companies have to pay fines and damages, but the impacts on the brand’s reputation …
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Mon 24 Feb 2025
IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back
For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process,…
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Mon 24 Feb 2025
Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication faster and more efficient
Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023 and are estimated to use up to 12% by 2028. The majority of the energy data centers suck up is used to help transfer data from chip to chip. A c…
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Fri 21 Feb 2025
Augury raises $73M on a $1B+ valuation for AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines
As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank make industrial robotics into a key focus for future R&D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor.…
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Fri 21 Feb 2025
Level Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable medtech can take the strain out of hormone testing
Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that’s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-se…
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Thu 20 Feb 2025
Legal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M
Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense t…
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Thu 20 Feb 2025
Germany’s Helsing doubles down on drones for Ukraine, scales up manufacturing
Helsing, the German defense tech startup backed by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and others, is producing 6,000 HX-2 strike drones in addition to the 4,000 HF-1 strike drones financed by Germany that are curre…
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Wed 19 Feb 2025
Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture
The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical. On Monday, Paris-based AI startup Mistral — which …
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Wed 19 Feb 2025
Tofu is building an omni-channel marketing platform for enterprises
When EJ Cho started his first company in 2018, he was exposed to what it takes to market a product. He was surprised to find a market filled with different single-use tools. “It was a very frustratin…
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Tue 18 Feb 2025
Phase raises $13M to speed up the UX design process with its no-code platform
UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user interfaces. Regular communication, feedback an…
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Tue 18 Feb 2025
Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up
Apptronik, a University of Texas spin-out that was quietly building humanoid robots before it became quite so fashionable, on Thursday announced a $350 million Series A round of financing. B Capital …
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Mon 17 Feb 2025
Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City
Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. The launch, which kicked off this week in New Jersey, is Uber’s latest f…
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Mon 17 Feb 2025
No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable databases
If you’re working for a small company and want to build a client portal or an internal tool, it can be difficult to find the budget and resources to allocate a developer to that small project.
Learn …
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Fri 14 Feb 2025
SpotDraft taps AI to help streamline contract management
More and more legal professionals are embracing AI, surveys show. Per a recent poll from legaltech company Clio, 79% of firms used some form of AI for casework last year, up from just 19% in 2023.
L…
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Fri 14 Feb 2025
Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests
The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.
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Thu 13 Feb 2025
Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their customers’ worth
How much is a customer worth to a company? That’s the eternal question. To arrive at an answer, customer and sales teams are often forced to use spreadsheets and other manual data analysis methods. T…
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Thu 13 Feb 2025
Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with fresh $300M
Escalating geopolitical tensions and a new administration with a hawkish defense agenda has led many startups to embrace dual-use strategies to secure revenue through military applications. And it’s …
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Wed 12 Feb 2025
3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M to launch AI visual search
Mattoboard, the makers of web-based software designed to simplify the creative process for interior designers and architects, is getting into AI. On Tuesday, the startup announced its $2 million seed…
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Wed 12 Feb 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and e…
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Tue 11 Feb 2025
PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development
The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to se…
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Tue 11 Feb 2025
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