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Identity Emerges As The New Startup Battleground
Saeed Amidi, Founder and CEO of Plug and Play. AI model capability has dominated much of the conversation about agentic AI in 2026: How to build the agent's reasoning layer, interface and the task it performs. While the impact of those functions…
First judges revealed for Startup Battlefield 200
Every year, thousands of founders dream of stepping onto the Disrupt Stage for the ultimate startup pitch competition, Startup Battlefield 200, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Just 200 early-stage founders earn the chance to compete for the global…
Startup Tactics That Can Help Nonprofits Do More With Less
Startups and nonprofits may have different missions and measures of success, but they often face a similar challenge: pursuing ambitious goals with limited resources. Both must make smart decisions about where to focus their time, money and people…
Kenyan startup makes robotic limbs to sign for deaf kids
In a school for the deaf in Kenya, children signed their excitement as a team demonstrated how a robotic arm could revolutionize their studies. Roughly 300,000 children in the east African nation are deaf or hard of hearing, according to the Kenya…
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CMU Builds a Stronger Pipeline From Research to Startups
When founders, investors and researchers gather at Carnegie Mellon University for CMU Startup Week, they will get an early look at technologies moving out of university laboratories and toward the marketplace. The university's flagship…
Exclusive | Florida Has Become the New Hotbed for Defense Startup Money
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Venture-capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new regional headquarters in South Florida, focusing on defense investments two years after it fled the region following a short-lived crypto office in…
Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs
Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest publicly announced deal to date for credits generated from cutting methane emissions in rice…
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according to several people…
AMD-Backed Korean AI Startup Upstage Considers Pre-IPO Round
South Korean artificial intelligence startup Upstage is considering a pre-listing funding round as one of several capital-market options, according to its co-founder. The Seoul-based company closed a 560 billion won ($420 million) Series C…
AI chip startup Positron's valuation skyrockets in latest funding round
Sept 10: Positron AI, a startup developing chips to run AI models, said on Thursday it has raised $875 million in its latest funding round, more than quadrupling its valuation in seven months to $5 billion. The startup had raised $230 million in…
Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation to $3.7 billion, the company announced on Thursday. It announced the original Series C in June, which was…
This former Navy SEAL spent 5 years in private equity working 100-hour weeks before quitting and building a $9 billion startup
At just 46 years old, Dino Mavrookas' career already looks more expansive than most, spanning three distinct roles: Navy SEAL, private-equity investor, and now cofounder and CEO of $9.25 defense-tech startup Saronic—proof that your first…
Seattle mayor wants fund for startups after report cites tech job instability
(The Center Square) - Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at retaining startup companies after they grow big enough to leave their local incubators. The order proposes that Seattle set up a fund that would allow…
Sales automation startup Clay boosts valuation to $7.1B in $115M funding round - SiliconANGLE
Clay Labs Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make business-to-business sales teams more productive, today announced that it has raised $115 million in funding. Wellington Management led the Series D round. It was joined by Alphabet…
Musk's tunnel startup The Boring Company raises $3 billion at $23 billion valuation
The Boring Company, a tunnel construction startup founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has raised $3 billion in a new funding round that values it at $23 billion, according to a statement on Wednesday. The funding round…
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