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…
Tag: TechCrunch
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse | TechCrunch
The controversy surrounding compliance startup Delve has gone from bad to worse this week. Among the fresh allegations from the…
Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open source LiteLLM project | TechCrunch
Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open…
It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations | TechCrunch
Pete Martin remembers raising a $5 million seed round at a $25 million post-money valuation for his AI-powered cybersecurity company…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups | TechCrunch
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI…
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand | TechCrunch
AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads…
AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round | TechCrunch
Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised…
16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day | TechCrunch
AI was once again the buzzword for this latest batch of YC Demo Day companies. Nearly 190 companies participated in…
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,…
Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing | TechCrunch
The number of med-spas, weight loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same-day…
Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product | TechCrunch
With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue),…
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way | TechCrunch
Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that…
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of the Helion — the fusion startup he backs —…
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ | TechCrunch
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant”…
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business? | TechCrunch
This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The…
AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good | TechCrunch
Well, the data is out. AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on…
This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt | TechCrunch
Every new technology creates a new environment in which we work, but it’s not clear how AI will do that.…
World launches tool to verify humans behind AI shopping agents | TechCrunch
World, co-founded by Sam Altman, is dedicated to creating what it calls “proof of human” tech — ID verification tools…