Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese…
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Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought | TechCrunch
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, the companies announced on Wednesday. The…
India neobank Fi winds down banking services on its platform | TechCrunch
India’s neobank Fi is discontinuing banking services on its platform more than four years after launching them in partnership with…
Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq | TechCrunch
In a sea of massive valuations for early-stage AI startups, today we have a bit of rare news: a jumbo…
Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
Thirty percent of European unicorns may have lost their billion-dollar status, but not Alan. The French health insurance startup is…
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…
Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup | TechCrunch
Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022,…
Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures | TechCrunch
Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D set to…
Sandbar secures $23M Series A for its AI note-taking ring | TechCrunch
Sandbar, a startup by former Meta employees Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, attracted much attention last year when it showed…
AI network startup Eridu emerges from stealth with hefty $200M Series A | TechCrunch
Drew Perkins has been inventing computer network tech and building startups since the dawn of the internet age. Now he’s…
Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in 7 months to $2.3B | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan fintech Uzum has reached a $2.3 billion valuation — about 53% higher than just seven months ago — as…
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models | TechCrunch
AMI Labs, the new venture co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion…
Slate Names New CEO Months Before Launching Its Cheap EV Truck
Just months before it’s set to launch its roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck, Slate Auto has a new CEO. Peter…
Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits $14.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Amid growing demand for data centers that can deliver AI compute at scale, Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure company Nscale is…
Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work? | TechCrunch
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated…
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models | TechCrunch
AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and…
Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology | TechCrunch
Oura announced on Thursday that it has acquired Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in technology that enables users to control…
How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup | TechCrunch
This isn’t David Park’s first rodeo. The veteran founder and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus has certainly been battle-tested in the enterprise arena. On this episode of…