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Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M
2 mei 2025 · 3 min
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures.
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Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely
2 mei 2025 · 3 min
AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to exams. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users.
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Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups
1 mei 2025 · 2 min
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat.
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Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere
1 mei 2025 · 6 min
When it comes to creating images of the earth from above, satellites, drones and planes are the air and spacecraft that tend to come to mind. But a startup called Near Space Labs is taking a very different approach to high-resolution photos from up high.
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Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps
30 april 2025 · 4 min
The startup's enzymes modify a cow’s microbiome using enzymes, slashing methane while boosting the nutrients available to the cow.
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From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
30 april 2025 · 8 min
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition.
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RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries
29 april 2025 · 4 min
RepAir recently raised a $15 million extension to its Series A.
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Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
29 april 2025 · 8 min
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted.
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Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane
28 april 2025 · 4 min
Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered data observability startup, for an undisclosed amount. In a press release, Datadog said that the deal “accelerates” its expansion into data observability, building on the launch of related products.
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Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
28 april 2025 · 4 min
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the software stack.”
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British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries
25 april 2025 · 6 min
Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or outsourced some or all of their industrial operations to cheaper countries further away. But that is easier said than done.
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Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M
25 april 2025 · 4 min
AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it’s also introducing new security challenges. More than 50% of organizations encounter security issues with AI-produced code sometimes or frequently, according to a late 2023 survey by developer security platform Synk.
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Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets
24 april 2025 · 6 min
A new venture firm aims to prove that the most successful startup ideas don’t have to be born or scaled in Silicon Valley. Fluent Ventures, a global early-stage fund, is backing founders replicating proven business models from Western markets in fintech, digital health, and commerce across emerging markets.
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Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise
24 april 2025 · 4 min
In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul Copplestone, couldn’t have imagined it would be sitting in the sweet spot for 2025’s biggest trend: vibe coding.
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Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI
23 april 2025 · 6 min
Chatbots and other kinds of AI agents — and the companies that build them — may feel like a dime a dozen these days. But the truth is that, for both businesses and consumers, some may be infinitely more useful (and perhaps less dystopian) than others.
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Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear
23 april 2025 · 6 min
A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world’s first super-app that is designed to help people better understand and take care of their health. For $499, the startup offers biannual lab testing that analyzes over 100 blood biomarkers across 21 categories
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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere
22 april 2025 · 7 min
Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder – and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch
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OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
22 april 2025 · 5 min
OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models. Hallucinations have proven to be one of the biggest and most difficult problems to solve in AI
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Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI
21 april 2025 · 7 min
Deck, a startup that claims to be building “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round — about nine months after closing its seed financing, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The new raise, led by Infinity Ventures, brings Montreal-based Deck’s total raised
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Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands
21 april 2025 · 3 min
Capsule is upgrading its AI-powered video editing assistant for marketing, sales, and media teams following the close of a $12 million round of Series A funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The upgraded editor will include new features like AI suggestions and support for real-time collaboration.
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Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution
18 april 2025 · 5 min
Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so much so that CEO Elon Musk said his company was weeks away from collapsing. That near-death experience helped spawn a whole new company called Atomic that’s built around using AI to streamline supply chains. Co-founded by former Tesla employees
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OpenAI says it may ‘adjust’ its safety requirements if a rival lab releases ‘high-risk’ AI
18 april 2025 · 4 min
In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may “adjust” its requirements if a rival AI lab releases a “high-risk” system without comparable safeguards.
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Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation
17 april 2025 · 6 min
U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in data science to build car insurance policies for immigrants and other consumers who have been overlooked or priced out of traditional insurance.
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Fusion power has a fuel problem; Hexium has a laser-powered solution
17 april 2025 · 5 min
Hexium has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.
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Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table
16 april 2025 · 5 min
Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos, and Glossier. None has gone through a traditional IPO process. Warby Parker was taken public through a special purpose acquisition vehicle. Bonobos was acquired by Walmart. Glossier is still privately held.
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Conifer locks down $20M seed round for its ‘drop-in’ electric hub motor
16 april 2025 · 5 min
A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple’s electric car project have launched a new startup that puts a fresh spin on electric hub motors.
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Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is still bullish on HVAC
15 april 2025 · 3 min
Matt Rogers says Quilt is picking up where his old startup, Nest, left off.
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Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short-distance freight
15 april 2025 · 5 min
The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handles about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO Matt Soule wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system.
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Drafted uses AI and video resumes to help early-career professionals land jobs
14 april 2025 · 5 min
As the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that don’t align with their goals.
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Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech
14 april 2025 · 4 min
After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million in fresh funding to help scale its autonomous driving technology and advance commercial partnerships. The Series E round brings Nuro’s total funding raised to $2.2 billion and its valuation to $6 billion.
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Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale
11 april 2025 · 4 min
Tessell, a startup developing a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, has raised $60 million in a new funding round led by WestBridge Capital ahead of its plans to expand its market presence and launch an AI-powered conversational database management service.
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Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflows
11 april 2025 · 5 min
Legal tech has come a long way, but the bulk of an intellectual property or patent lawyer’s work today is still done with spreadsheets, word processors and PDFs.
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Sizl raises $3.5M to expand its cook-to-order food delivery service
10 april 2025 · 4 min
Dark kitchens– also referred to as ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, or virtual kitchens– often receive criticism for their food quality. Sizl, a cook-to-order delivery service based in Chicago, seeks to change this perception by delivering meals made with fresh ingredients in around 30 minutes flat.
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XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power
10 april 2025 · 5 min
The startup has commissioned a demonstration unit of its organic flow battery.
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SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’
9 april 2025 · 5 min
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he’s convinced tech leaders — who often pitch utopian ideals of their own — can help him deliver. “I’m a mayor that is picking up the phone and calling CEOs,” said Lurie during TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event on Thursday night.
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SignalFire raises over $1B as LPs embrace data-driven investing
9 april 2025 · 5 min
Thirteen years ago, when Chris Farmer founded early-stage venture firm SignalFire with data analysis at the core of its investment strategy, many were skeptical about the approach — conventional wisdom dictated that nascent companies didn’t have enough data to make investment algorithms effective. “This was a very radical idea, and everyone thought I was crazy.”
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OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment
8 april 2025 · 4 min
OpenAI just co-led a $43 million Series A into deepfake defense startup Adaptive Security.
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Thatch raises $40M to give employees more control of their health care choices
8 april 2025 · 6 min
Thatch, a startup that aims to transform the health insurance experience for employers and employees alike, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively.
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Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
7 april 2025 · 4 min
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by billionaire co-founder of Robinhood Baiju Bhatt, has raised a $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit demonstration in 2026.
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Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud
7 april 2025 · 4 min
Cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud. While to some it may look like AI is headed in a similar direction, the founders of Parasail think AI infrastructure will look very different — and are betting their company’s fate on it.
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The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie
4 april 2025 · 7 min
Rippling released the affidavit of the its employee who admitted he was spying for Deel.
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Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp
4 april 2025 · 7 min
While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez noticed that most of the workers in the cafeteria were Hispanic. In conversations with them, a common theme kept coming up: how difficult it was for people who legally moved to the U.S. from Spanish-speaking countries.
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Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology
3 april 2025 · 4 min
Skylight, a startup taking on TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just ten weeks of active development.
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Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model
3 april 2025 · 4 min
AI startup Runway on Monday released what it claims is one of the highest-fidelity AI-powered video generators yet. Called Gen-4, the model is rolling out to the company’s individual and enterprise customers.
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Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service
2 april 2025 · 4 min
Despite Google’s intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular photo backup services around. In fact, it was one of the most attractive offerings for years until it stopped offering unlimited storage in 2020.
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Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase
2 april 2025 · 2 min
Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan application startup Frank that was purchased by JP Morgan for $175 million, was found guilty on Friday of defrauding the bank by greatly inflating the customer count.
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Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion
1 april 2025 · 6 min
Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform to orchestrate the messy business of building and operating integrations and updates across disparate services and apps in the cloud. But the AI boom has come at the company fast.
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Why HoneyBook’s $140M in ARR may finally justify its $2.4B ZIRP-era valuation
1 april 2025 · 3 min
HoneyBook, a startup last valued in late 2021 at $2.4 billion, told TechCrunch that it hit $140 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR). This makes HoneyBook one of the few startups with peak-VC-era valuations to report their financials after the market cooled.
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Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers
31 maart 2025 · 4 min
When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical concept than a reality. Today, the Paris-based is releasing an automation agent in partnership with Qonto, the fintech startup that offers business bank accounts to more than 500,000 customers across Europe.
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Has GetReal cracked the code on AI deepfakes? $18M and an impressive client list says yes
31 maart 2025 · 7 min
The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious byproducts of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars — not to mention the implications these could have on national security.
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