AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost | TechCrunch
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people…
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Startup Battlefield 200 applications open until May 27 | TechCrunch
Pre-Series A founders and anyone who knows a startup worth funding, this is your reminder. Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are open, and the…
Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI | TechCrunch
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been…
AI recruiting startup Mercor hit by cyberattack; Meta halts collaboration – The Economic Times
A few days ago, artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting startup Mercor confirmed it was hit by a security incident linked to…
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…
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”…