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
AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features
AI-powered notetaking app Granola is raising $43 million in funding at a $250 million valuation. It is also launching a team sharing feature.
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00:04:14 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins
Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can’t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Tensor9 looks to help software companies …
00:04:56 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user
Popular legal AI tool Harvey will now be using leading foundation models from Anthropic and Google, moving beyond strictly using OpenAI’s, Harvey announced in a blog post on Tuesday. This is notewort…
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Fri 16 May 2025
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Realta hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power as low as $40 per megawatt-hour.
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00:04:29 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds
An analysis by Epoch AI, a nonprofit AI research institute, suggests the AI industry may not be able to eke massive performance gains out of reasoning AI models for much longer. As soon as within a y…
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Thu 15 May 2025
AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes
AllTrails, the hiking and biking companion that was named 2023’s iPhone App of the Year, is launching a new premium membership called “Peak” that includes an upgraded feature set. This $80-per-year s…
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Wed 14 May 2025
This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual
VCs are known to move in herds, which is why Eric Slesinger stands out a bit. While most American investors chase AI startups or U.S.-based defense tech startups, the former CIA officer is hunting fo…
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Wed 14 May 2025
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well).
Lea…
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Tue 13 May 2025
FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.
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Tue 13 May 2025
Clay authorizes employee tender at a $1.5B valuation led by Sequoia
It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022.
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Mon 12 May 2025
Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
Social media startup Fizz is suing grocery delivery giant Instacart and party planning app Partiful for trademark infringement, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launche…
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Mon 12 May 2025
Breathe lands $21M Series B to predict battery performance
Breathe has developed a suite of tools that it says helps automakers and others get the most out of their batteries.
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Fri 09 May 2025
Ox Security lands a fresh $60M to scan for vulnerabilities in code
As “vibe coding” gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh rou…
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Fri 09 May 2025
Agree.com raises $7.2M to take on Docusign, Bill.com with AI
Agree.com says its AI-powered e-signature platform is different from competitors because it includes invoicing and payment processing. That’s why the company might have a shot at tackling the industr…
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Thu 08 May 2025
Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents
Individuals may work closely with AI agents as they become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market for AI agents is expected to grow at a…
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Thu 08 May 2025
Social Agent’s new app lets you book a photographer within 30 minutes
There’s an unspoken pressure nowadays to share all your special moments online, whether it be birthdays, graduations, or engagements. However, not everyone has the skills to take high-quality pictur…
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Wed 07 May 2025
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find dev…
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Wed 07 May 2025
Ara Partners new $800M fund will decarbonize old industrial assets
Ara Partners recently raised an $800 million infrastructure fund focused on reducing carbon emissions in industrial sectors.
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00:02:37 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device ... and more
Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman co-founded, plans to unveil Wednesday a mobile device designed to help people determine the diff…
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Tue 06 May 2025
AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months
Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution pro…
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Mon 05 May 2025
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