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What Running A Bootstrapped Startup Teaches You About Venture Capital
Erhan Kaya, Founder & CEO of Zoviz, turns any name into a designer-grade logo and complete brand kit in under a minute. When I started bootstrapping a technology company, funding it with my own money instead of outside investors, I believed…
This startup is turning fallen leaves into biodegradable plastic
First-generation bioplastics were made from food crops like corn and sugar. A new biomaterials startup is using something very different: the autumn leaves collected by cities each fall. The startup, Perennial Polymers, extracts the natural…
AI Startup Wants Every Company to Assign You Your Own Personal Stalker
If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it's that people hate feeling watched. You could put the brightest minds of…
This startup just raised $21 million to expose companies' messes of AI agents
AI agents are starting to outnumber humans in many high-tech workplaces, and they can be far trickier to monitor. Opsin, an AI security and governance startup, announced Thursday it raised $21 million to meet the moment. As employees across the…
FC Copenhagen Women have a 'startup-like' brand. Now they need results
On an August day in 2024, 5,165 fans gathered at Vanløse Idrætspark to watch FC Copenhagen (FCK) take on B73 Slagelse in their first league match. For Denmark's most successful men's club, with 16 league titles, it marked the…
Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
Over the past two days, 20 startups have been pitching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, presenting live demos and answering tough questions from our expert judges. Now it's time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup…
Chinese startup DexForce trains humanoid robots using virtual data to slash costs
At the offices of Chinese startup DexForce, a screen shows a virtual robot placing objects on a table. It repeats the task as the angle of its arms, the colour of the table and the objects themselves change. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT…
A startup wants to sell sunlight at night. Its latest test lit up Mount Whitney.
On Saturday night, residents of Lone Pine, a small Eastern Sierra town near Mount Whitney, were baffled by a pair of blinding lights illuminating the desert south of town. In what should have been a pitch-black sky, the beams seemed to come out of…
An AI-for-Climate Startup Won Nvidia's Backing-After Putting the Climate Part on Ice
Nvidia's Jensen Huang visited Paris this week to unveil a slate of investments in French startups, the chip giant's latest move to solidify its position at the heart of the AI industry. One of the companies, Entalpic, began life with the goal of…
LinkedIn's top Israeli startups of 2026 ranking filled with AI, cybersecurity
LinkedIn shared its 2026 ranking of the best Israeli startups on Wednesday, with the newly unveiled identity security firm Oak, which was launched publicly in July with a $60 million seed investment, leading the ranking. Greylock Partners, Accel…
GM Mulls Letting Startups Into Its $145M Battery Lab
GM is weighing whether to open its soon-to-be-finished battery development center in Warren, Michigan to outside startups, giving smaller players a shot at manufacturing expertise they could never afford to build themselves. The idea came up at the…
Startup Abby Care raises $82 million to turn family members into paid caregivers
As a kid, Havi Nguyen sometimes missed school to translate at doctor's appointments, and was managing Medicaid paperwork for her family, who had recently immigrated from Vietnam. Whatever life in a new country threw at them, Nguyen as the eldest…
Exclusive: Frontier secures deal with startup that stores CO2 in rocks
Frontier, the group of big companies jump-starting carbon removal markets, has brokered $11.7 million in new purchase deals with the startup 44.01. Why it matters: It's Frontier's first purchase using a promising but nascent method that turns CO2…
Space Startups Secure Record $20.8 Billion Funding in Q3
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX's Starship rocket is pictured after launching as seen from South Padre Island near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. January 16, 2025. REUTERS/Gabriel V. Cardenas/File Photo Space startups attracted a record $20.8 billion in funding in…
Pantera Capital-backed startup Fission raises $10 million to help investors cash out of tokenized funds faster
Money can move into tokenized private funds much faster than it comes out. Even as asset managers use blockchain technology to turn fund shares into digital tokens, a lack of liquidity can mean investors must wait months to find a buyer. Fission, a…
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