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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia
The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their spot on the Startup Battlefield stage at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19 — and they're ready to pitch for…
Why The Cost Of Building A Startup Is Quietly Collapsing
Igor Trunov is founder of Ventora, focused on AI-driven entrepreneurship and innovation. If you ask 10 founders how much it costs to launch a SaaS company today, you'll probably hear 10 different answers. Some will tell you that you can build an…
These American Startups Are Making China's AI Smarter
When U.S. sales teams from Silicon Valley's big data-labeling startups visited this year's International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul, Korea, they arrived prepped to court the industry's big spenders. The data…
What The New Defense Startups Are Demanding From Their Supply Chain
Joel Scutchfield, General Manager of SMT and Semicon Business Operations at Koh Young America, Inc. There is a phrase that has defined the technology startup world for the better part of two decades: move fast and break things. In the new…
Forget Neuralink. This startup thinks your tongue is the better interface
Tomás Vega went to Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded startup, to work on the highest-bandwidth human-machine interface possible to liberate people from their disabilities. Then he left because he couldn't wait for it. Vega, who has stuttered…
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. Bloomberg originally reported that Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to…
This startup that just raised $6.5 million bets the next big side hustle is controlling robots with VR headsets
On a cold morning in Dallas shortly before Christmas last year, CEO Colin Webb watched one of his robots work an eight-hour shift alongside warehouse workers. The wheeled machine, equipped with two robotic arms, spent the day packing beauty…
Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models
Indian electric vehicle startup River on Wednesday said it had raised $120 million to scale manufacturing for its next phase of growth. The Series C round was led by Indian investors Elev8 Venture Partners and Claypond Capital, with participation…
AI startup Osmo wants to make corporate videos that don't look like slop
A San Francisco startup is using AI to help businesses create marketing, launch, and other videos—without just generating unexciting “AI slop.” Osmo Studio, which bills itself as a “storytelling studio with a software…
Startup Unveils Underwater Living Chamber for Human Dwellers
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Ever want to live underwater in a 35-by-8-foot tube? You may soon have your wish, if one UK-based startup has anything to say about it. New footage from Mashable shows a wild new…
Israeli cyber startup Oligo Security doubles valuation with $60 Million round
While the Israeli tech sector seeks stability, the domestic cybersecurity industry continues to heat up with the announcement by Israeli cyber startup Oligo Security that it has completed a $60 million financing round. The total capital raised by…
How a Las Vegas startup built a Roblox empire
At 20 years old, Alex Hicks faced a problem most college students never encounter: The online games he was creating were generating six figures in revenue every month. Today, Hicks is a co-founder of Twin Atlas, a Las Vegas-based game studio with…
'Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money': How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
In November 2022, Adeel Khan was doing something rare for a longtime educator: taking time off. Having launched his career as a teacher in Atlanta Public Schools, Khan became an assistant principal before founding his own public high school in…
Raptor PR launches Early Gaming Growth platform to help gaming startups navigate B2B communications
Raptor PR has launched Early Gaming Growth (EGG), a communications platform designed for gaming startups. The 'integrated communications, reputation, and growth-building platform' aims to support early-stage companies as they build credibility to…
Exclusive: Startup Sapiom routes clients' AI to lowest-cost tokens
Quintessential San Francisco AI startup Polsia employs nobody and operates swarms of AI agents to help run other businesses. Its projected annual revenue skyrocketed almost overnight this year from $100,000 to $10 million, but so did its token…
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