Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI…
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Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York | TechCrunch
Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office. It will…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers select different…
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta | TechCrunch
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion…
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI | TechCrunch
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues.…
Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup | TechCrunch
In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by…
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise | TechCrunch
There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps…
AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation | TechCrunch
AI law startup Norm on Tuesday said it has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by…
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero | TechCrunch
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been…
After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M | TechCrunch
Groq is looking to raise $650 million in new funding from existing investors, sources tell Axios, as it leans into…
AI search startups are blowing up | TechCrunch
Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan to blow up its traditional Search in favor of an AI-powered experience — but…
Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’ | TechCrunch
Cohere, the Canada-based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it would merge with the Germany-based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The deal,…
Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment | TechCrunch
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French…
Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises | TechCrunch
More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far the most popular and lucrative…
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports | TechCrunch
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information…
Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal | TechCrunch
Autonomous military aircraft maker Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation,…
Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B | TechCrunch
Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP Ventures, at $1.64 billion valuation,…
Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup | TechCrunch
Last week, Netflix announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI company co-founded by Ben Affleck that helps filmmakers edit footage…