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
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Grand Games, the Turkish startup behind Magic Sort, drinks up $30M
Gaming startups, specifically those building casual mobile games, are very hot in Turkey right now, and today another one is announcing a sizable round.
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00:05:56 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
Overhaul raises another $55M to help companies like Dyson and Microsoft fight supply chain theft
Businesses dependent on the physical supply chain — the network of facilities and transportation systems used to move materials from one location to another — chain face a number of challenges, from …
00:04:10 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout
A startup hoping to provide a credible alternative to Amazon has picked up funding to double down on the gap in the market. PrettyDamnQuick (PDQ) provides tech to retailers to let them customize and …
00:07:29 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels
Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), has raised €115 million ($119 million) as it looks to…
00:03:47 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
CES 2025: Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’
The startup’s founder, Nik Shevchenko, started marketing this device on Kickstarter as “Friend,” but changed the device’s name after another San Francisco hardware maker launched his own Friend devic…
00:05:19 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants
When Valeria Kogan started her PhD program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be with…
00:04:42 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce
“These are the kind of jobs that we shouldn't need people to do anymore," founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jobs.
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00:03:18 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows
Social network and X competitor Bluesky’s massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million in September to north of 20 million users in November.
The slowdown is bas…
00:03:59 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
CES 2025: Soliddd Vision Glasses for those with macular degeneration and Elvie's Smart Bouncer
This week at CES 2025, the company is showcasing a prototype version of its forthcoming SolidddVision glasses. The Brooklyn-based startup is specifically targeting people with macular degeneration. T…
00:05:01 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture
Hydrogen startups are widely seen as a promising way to eliminate fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-haul transportation. But they have been stuck in limbo for the last couple years, waiting f…
00:04:57 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen
Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using electricity to coax pure iron out of low-grade or…
00:02:59 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI
As 2025 dawns, it’s a good time to look at the trends that are likely to define the coming 12 months.
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00:05:57 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
After ups and down, food delivery startup Epicery closes shop
French food delivery startup Epicery will cease operations Tuesday, after one last holiday season hurrah for its clients and the local food businesses that were using the platform during its nine yea…
00:05:33 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
Calo raises $25 million to expand its ready-to-eat meal service beyond the Middle East
A business built around increasingly customized ready-to-eat meals has netted Middle Eastern startup Calo a sizeable funding injection as it looks to expand both what it can offer its time-strapped c…
00:06:36 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
Backed by a16z and QED, Brazilian startup Carecode puts AI agents to work on healthcare
AI holds huge promise for healthcare, but not just on the medical side; many startups are convinced machine learning-based systems can do a lot of good on adjacent tasks such as appointment schedulin…
00:04:50 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
The trends that shaped EVs, robotaxis, and electric flight in 2024
If there was one phrase that captured the vibe and theme of 2024 — at least in the transportation sector — it was business whiplash. Legacy automakers changed direction on their all-EVs-or-bust strat…
00:10:34 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business p…
00:04:43 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed
On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, raise $1 million.
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00:03:45 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
British university spinoff Mindgard protects companies from AI threats
AI creates a dilemma for companies: Don’t implement it yet, and you might miss out on productivity gains and other potential benefits; but do it wrong, and you might expose your business and clients …
00:04:11 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
Access bets people will pay thousands of dollars a year for guaranteed restaurant reservations
Once, not long ago, booking a table at a hot new restaurant didn’t entail a midnight dash to Resy. Truly, we didn’t know how good we had it then. Hours-long lines out the door are now the norm, not t…
00:07:34 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
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