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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup | TechCrunch
Meta may be about to lose one of its most renowned AI heads: Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at…
Wonderful raised $100M Series A to put AI agents on the front lines of customer service | TechCrunch
Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Insight Partners, IVP,…
Immortality startup Eternos nabs $10.3M, pivots to personal AI that sounds like you | TechCrunch
In 2023, after nearly three decades as CEO of the company he founded, Robert LoCascio stepped down as CEO of…
Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees | TechCrunch
Lovable, the Stockholm-based AI coding platform, is closing in on 8 million users, CEO Anton Osika told this editor during…
Sapphire Sport spins out, rebrands as 359 Capital with $300M AUM | TechCrunch
Nearly seven years after announcing its first fund, Sapphire Sport — the venture fund focused on sports, media, and entertainment…
Super Teacher is building an AI tutor for elementary schools — catch it at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Tutoring is one of the most effective tools for improving a child’s education, yet very few kids in the U.S.…
Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Pytho AI is coming out of stealth with an ambitious pitch to the Department of Defense: turn mission planning that…
David Sacks’ Craft leads $42M Series A in govtech startup Starbridge | TechCrunch
Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019. Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog,…