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The 2026 Startup Battlefield Top 20: From organs to orbit and everything in between
Twenty founders just earned their shot at Disrupt glory. They're headed to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to compete for the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Every year, thousands of founders from around the world pitch us on…
Exclusive: Rivian's startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired as…
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy
Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy. Character.AI announced last night that it had entered a “voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process” and is…
U.S. Defense Startups Flock to Taiwan to Build China-Free Drones
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan —Ever since former U.S. Navy flight officer Paul Lwin founded defense startup HavocAI in Rhode Island in 2024, he has seen Taiwan as an island of opportunity. Lwin designs software to manage autonomous maritime…
This Y Combinator startup raised $6.1 million to let non-techies ship code
The way engineers, product managers, and designers work together is still slow and janky, says one Y Combinator-backed startup. Now, it's raised $6.1 million to help non-engineers directly make changes to a company's existing codebase using AI…
How NYC twins built a telehealth platform after a $500K startup setback
Twin brothers Zachary and Elias Dorf thought they'd found the perfect business opportunity. Instead, they spent nearly $500,000 and the better part of a year building an online telehealth business focused on eyelash treatments that didn't take off.
Workday Launches AI Agent Deluge, Acquires Agentic Identity Startup
At its Workday Rising annual event in Las Vegas this week, the cloud application giant unleashed a wave of new AI agent capabilities that automate routine tasks and provide a new front-end user experience for Workday HR, payroll and finance…
Cyprus Business Now: fintech, supermarkets, gambling, shipping, startups, IMF
London Business School professor Costas Markides told the gathering in Limassol that fintech companies had transformed financial services without displacing established lenders. Instead, banks had adapted to the competition by investing in…
ServiceNow Denies Reports of Takeover Interest in AI Agent Startup Decagon
Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (Oct. 13), citing a paywalled article by Business Insider, that Decagon has hired a bank to evaluate purchase interest and has talked with ServiceNow and other companies about a potential sale. The talks about a…
Dublin city start-up hub planned as Startup Ireland gets official launch
A new Dublin city centre hub and an AI accelerator delivered by Dogpatch Labs are among the first initiatives under the new cross-government programme. It had been signposted for some time, and got a mention in the Budget 2027 speeches, but…
Ambition Accelerated kicks off statewide accelerator in key sectors. Here are the 19 South Florida startups selected
With its business-friendly regulations and policies, it's no surprise Florida is an attractive place to build a business and in fact leads the nation in new business formations, according to US Census Bureau Data. Now business leaders in South…
Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry - see how at TechCrunch Disrupt
If fusion power pans out, and there are signs that it will, the world will need a lot more lithium. That's the bet behind Licube, a startup that has licensed technology from Hirosaki University in Japan, to purify lithium-6, the form of lithium…
Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
In most factories, automation is fixed: robots and machines are programmed for one specific task and product. Changing a line means reprogramming and physical retooling, or swapping out equipment, which can take weeks or months. San Francisco-based…
Business video automation startup Clueso raises $10M to kill off manual production processes - SiliconANGLE
Clueso, creator of an agentic video creation platform that's designed specifically for business teams, said today it has raised $10 million in a new early-stage round of funding. Dharana Capital led the Series A round, which saw participation from…
Expect to be spied on': MI5 chief warns UK tech startups over foreign threats
British tech startups should expect to be targeted by foreign spies, the head of MI5 has warned, as the security service ramps up efforts to tackle cyberattacks and the growing national security risks posed by AI. Sir Ken McCallum, director general…
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