AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day | TechCrunch
A new helper has arrived at the North Pole in recent years: AI. Tavus, the AI startup that creates digital…
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Fertility startup Inito wants to use AI-designed antibodies to expand at-home health tests | TechCrunch
Fertility startup Inito has raised $29 million in Series B funding to scale its at-home health diagnostics platform and use…
Unacademy’s founder says startup is now worth less than $500M, confirms M&A talks | TechCrunch
Unacademy, once one of India’s best-known edtech startups, may now be worth less than $500 million, 85% less than its…
Ex-Googler’s Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+ with AI built to assist, not replace, people | TechCrunch
Yoodli, an AI-powered communication training startup, has reached a valuation of more than $300 million — more than triple its…
Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B ‘headline’ valuation – TechCrunch
Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A…
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
Limitless, the AI startup formerly known as Rewind, has been acquired by Meta, the company announced Friday on its website.…
Legal AI startup Harvey confirms $8B valuation – TechCrunch
Harvey on Thursday confirmed it closed a round of funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, that values the legal AI startup…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed – TechCrunch
Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of…
At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far – TechCrunch
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked…
Here are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025 – TechCrunch
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds…
How this founder’s unlikely path to Silicon Valley could become an edge in industrial tech | TechCrunch
Thomas Lee Young doesn’t sound like your typical Silicon Valley founder. The 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup…
Legally embattled AI music startup Suno raises at $2.45B valuation on $200M revenue | TechCrunch
If you want insight into just how worried VCs (and Silicon Valley, generally) are over legal challenges to AI training…
Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics | TechCrunch
South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media…
Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus | TechCrunch
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: The billionaire is partly backing a new…
Sequoia-backed fintech Aspora will let Indian diaspora pay bills back home | TechCrunch
Sequoia-backed fintech platform Aspora, which lets the Indian diaspora send money back to India, is launching a new feature for…
As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt | TechCrunch
With consumers increasingly asking questions of ChatGPT — not Google — product discovery is changing. And the promise to give…
MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla’s Keith Rabois and Felicis | TechCrunch
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed…
VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups | TechCrunch
If there’s one thing that VCs agree on when backing AI startups, it’s that AI requires a different investment approach…