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
- 3548
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecurity.
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00:05:15 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment
FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.
Also, YC backed Garage is a marketplace that sells specialized equipment common…
00:07:19 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages
A new gadget called Dex allows kids to take pictures of objects and the AI translates the word into different languages.
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00:05:27 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market
Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. Also, The round, which pushes Databricks' valuation to $100B, was co-led …
00:09:09 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech
The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats
David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI.
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00:03:56 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more
Les Amis is an app designed to make it easy for women to form friendships and attend local events. Also, why did Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell? The company raised a $5 m…
00:07:25 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute
This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green, the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/sock salesman. Though the app was soft launched last…
00:06:13 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news
It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's. Also, Ultrahuman acquires viO HealthTech to launch enhanced cycle an…
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Mon 18 Aug 2025
Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more
While an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed that the AI firm did not acquire Humanloop or its IP, that’s a moot point in an industry where IP lives in the brain. And what Humanloop’s team is bringing t…
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Mon 18 Aug 2025
Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will ove…
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Fri 15 Aug 2025
Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO
Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operat…
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Fri 15 Aug 2025
Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink
Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.
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00:03:06 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint
As more solid rocket motor suppliers are coming online, a supply chain chokepoint looms.
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00:04:52 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global
Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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00:07:06 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator
Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy an…
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Wed 13 Aug 2025
Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy
Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.
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00:06:29 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO
"I think we're still kind of feeling out the space," CEO Brian Chesky told investors on the Q2 earnings call.
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00:03:51 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups
Coding assistant startups are highly unprofitable, says a source familiar with Windsurf financials.
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00:06:32 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click, also OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war
AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark …
00:10:50 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
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