General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India’s travel payments market | TechCrunch
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, has raised $63 million in…
Tag: TechCrunch
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering | TechCrunch
Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from…
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed | TechCrunch
Industry insiders say the next big thing in AI is “proactive” systems: agents that can anticipate a user’s needs —…
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…
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had | TechCrunch
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched…
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely…
Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients | TechCrunch
The market for AI notetaking devices has exploded in the U.S., with the category generating over $600 million in revenue…
Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI | TechCrunch
AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed…
What happens when AI starts building itself? | TechCrunch
Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup…
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded | TechCrunch
Ian Crosby, whose previous startup Bench Accounting famously shut down in 2024 before being bought for scraps, is taking another…
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 | TechCrunch
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out. Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close…
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch
While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been…
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand | TechCrunch
Fervo Energy, the geothermal energy startup, saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, an increase…
The 6 stages at Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market | TechCrunch
The biggest risk for founders and investors right now isn’t moving too slowly. It’s reacting too late to where the market already shifted. The new stages…
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea | TechCrunch
Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of…
The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action | TechCrunch
Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law…
AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals | TechCrunch
Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors…
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock | TechCrunch
Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the…