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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…
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…
With Tourism Stalled, Hawaii Chases the Startup Wave
KAILUA, Hawaii —The seaside streets bear the unmistakable look of a Hawaiian beach town, an oasis of palm trees, swimsuits and surfboards. Yet tucked behind a café where baristas make $11 lattes, young workers write code, design…
How one startup is recovering copper from old mines that were left for dead in the 1980s
In central Arizona, about 90 miles east of Phoenix, an old open-pit copper mine sits full of water. The mine closed in the 1980s, left to accumulate rain and groundwater. These “pit lakes,” as they're called, are monitored so that…
From Humanities To AI: How Ali Hussain Built Fintech Tabs Into A $400M Startup
Ali Hussain spent much of his childhood in his family's St. Paul, Minnesota, convenience store, where he packed cigarette cartons and watched his father run a business seven days a week, 365 days a year. Hussain was the son of a first-generation…
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…
Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion
WASHINGTON — Castelion, a defense-tech startup seeking to mass produce lower-cost hypersonic weapons, has raised more than $1 billion in new financing as it moves to expand missile production and develop a broader portfolio of offensive and…
Discord gave this startup a direct line to Gen Z. Then it built around what it heard.
Before Yeet had a finished dating app, it had a Discord server. The dating startup launched its “Founder Club” before the product was fully defined and invited young users to talk about what annoyed them most about online dating. The…
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…
Kochi-based startup launches 103 new Malayalam fonts
In 2016, a group of youngsters from Bigdates.ai, a Kochi -based startup, founded an application called Malayalam Text & Image Editor, an efficient tool to make meme-designing in Malayalam easier. Content creators and other users could log in to the…
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