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
- 3550
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.
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00:04:17 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream
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00:05:14 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reserv…
00:06:38 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials
Mitra Chem is developing materials to make lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries store more energy.
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00:02:30 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots.
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00:04:07 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products
Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors put aside societal prudence for profit? Tooley was mainly referring t…
00:04:22 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders…
00:05:49 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Ri…
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Mon 09 Jun 2025
North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tra…
00:04:01 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z
When Monik Pamecha co-founded AI voice startup Toma in early 2024, he hadn’t anticipated spending the summer months sweating in Bible Belt car dealerships. He and co-founder Anthony Krivonos were sti…
00:04:47 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to the highly popular AI models Claude 3.7 Sonnet and…
00:04:32 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’
The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.
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00:03:46 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI
If you’ve ever been locked out of your work computer, you know the urgent need to reach IT support. Unfortunately, helpdesk staff are often busy assisting others, which can mean a significant delay b…
00:03:46 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B
Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44M Series B funding round, bringing its tota…
00:04:19 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’
The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil righ…
00:02:55 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X
It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an upd…
00:02:42 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste
Misfits Market, the online platform that delivers imperfect groceries to help minimize waste, announced the acquisition of household restocking service The Rounds on Friday. As a result of the deal, …
00:03:01 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024
Just ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, Apple on Thursday announced new figures related to the U.S. App Store’s financial success. The company says its U.S. App Store ecosystem …
00:04:31 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite
AI-powered office suite Context raises $11 million in seed funding from Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and General Catalyst
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00:03:36 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI
Rillet directly pulls data from their customers' banks and platforms to generate financial statements, including the balance sheet and income statement.
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00:03:54 |
Fri 30 May 2025
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