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Space station startup Vast cuts 4% of employees
Space station startup Vast has cut 4% of its workforce as the new space race heats up. The startup, which is developing a commercial replacement for the International Space Station (ISS), fired 46 employees on Wednesday, Business Insider has…
How Colossal is incubating an empire of startups
Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf, and is now hard at work on its quest to resurrect several other species, including the woolly mammoth and the moa, a giant extinct bird. While that's happening, the company is also…
The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here - see who made the cut
We're thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch's annual, handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world. These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning…
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups. One of these fast-growing businesses is Micro1, a four-year-old startup that expanded its gross…
Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees
At the San Francisco-based startup Anything AI, there's a robust team that seems like any fast-growing startup's organizational chart. There's Emma, who investigates reported bugs across logs, databases, and code, then drafts the reply; Otis, who…
Chinese Startup Shows Off Robot Horse You Can Actually Ride
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Chinese startup DaxAI has shown off a “Cyber Horse” quadrupedal robot that visitors of the recent 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, China, could actually ride.
Makers Fund raises $250m in fourth round to support interactive entertainment startups
Venture capital firm Makers Fund has secured $250 million to invest in startups advancing games and interactive entertainment. This brings its total assets under management to $1.5 billion. Founded in 2016, Makers Fund raised $180 million in its…
Our AI startup is growing 40% a month helping financial advisers do what they love: giving advice
Before we built our current startup, we spent seven years building retail investment platforms that introduced millions of people to investing for the first time. Sharesies and Lightyear were highly regulated companies that now manage more than…
African defense tech startup reveals $52 million funding as it looks to take on Ukraine and US giants
Terra Industries is a Nigerian defense tech startup founded in 2024 by Nathan Nwachuku and Maxwell Maduka It has raised an incredible $52 million in seed funding, reportedly the largest ever by any African startup The core business of Terra…
Startup missile maker Castelion valued at $13 billion
Castelion, a Torrance, Calif.-based developer of hypersonic missiles, raised $800 million in Series C equity funding at a $13 billion post-money valuation. Why it matters: Startups are racing to help fill stockpiles depleted by the wars in Iran and…
T-Hub, Japan's OKI launch programme for deeptech startups
Startup incubator T-Hub and Japanese information and communication technology company OKI Electric Industry Co. (OKI) have partnered to launch a programme for Indian deeptech startups, primarily aimed at helping them validate their technologies and…
Startups have potential to address problems overlooked by others: Kanimozhi
Thoothukudi MP K. Kanimozhi on Thursday highlighted the ability of startups to address the needs of smaller groups of people, as larger corporates often could not afford to focus on such specific needs. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of a…
The prediction markets are catching on with Wall Street interns
The summer intern hunched over their phone, surreptitiously typing away, might be doing one of two things: betting on a prediction market or managing an AI chatbot. Morgan Stanley's equity research team asked the firm's summer interns about both…
AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M - SiliconANGLE
London-based artificial intelligence startup Callosum Ltd. today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding. Atomico led the seed investment with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund. The deal follows a $10.25…
After 30 years of research, Penn State startup reinvents the putting green | Penn State University
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — While they are on opposite sides of the country, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in New York and California's Pebble Beach Golf Club have at least two things in common. They are both hosting the U.S. Open Golf tournament…
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