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Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are open
Pre-Series A founders, this is your moment! If your startup is ready to be tested under real pressure, the battlefield is open. We're still accepting nominations for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200. This is your shot to step into the arena at…
The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni
Move over, PayPal mafia: There's a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is reportedly now in talks to finalize a $100 billion deal, valuing the company at…
The pressure is ramping up at Elon Musk's AI startup
At xAI's Palo Alto headquarters, engineers cheered. It was February 2, and they'd just received a memo from Elon Musk, informing them the AI startup would be acquired by his rocket company, SpaceX. In a Slack channel for the team that trains the…
Watch Japan Businesses Welcome the Startups They Once Shunned
Japan Businesses Welcome the Startups They Once Shunned Japan Inc. is banishing the old stereotypes of immobile salarymen and the shunning of startups as CEOs adapt to workers' new expectations -- and the need to partner with businesses of all…
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India's AI startup ecosystem
Nvidia is stepping up efforts to court India's artificial intelligence startups earlier in their lifecycle, unveiling a string of partnerships this week aimed at reaching founders even before their companies are formally established. The push is…
14 'Second Wave' startups aiming to take the AI era beyond cost cutting
Second Wave AI startups are trying to move beyond cost-cutting and use this technology to create brand-new experiences and generate new sources of revenue. The concept is being supported by Kylan Gibbs, a former DeepMind product manager who now…
Chinese Startup's Kung Fu Robots Fire Up Tech-Wary Investors
Robots once again stole the show during China's annual Spring Festival gala, popping up in comedy skits, dancing to Mandarin pop and bouncing off walls like martial arts masters. Investors responded Friday by pushing up shares in robotics firms…
China AI Startups Surge After Holiday in Rotation From Big Tech
Shares of China's generative AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax Group Inc. soared in Hong Kong as the market reopened after the Lunar New Year, with investors piling into pure AI plays and rotating out of traditional Internet giants. Zhipu —…
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India's AI Push: PM Modi Holds Roundtable with 16 Deeptech Startups
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roundtable with founders and CEOs of 16 artificial intelligence and deeptech startups at Seva Teerth, on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. According to an official statement, the…
Agentic finance automation startup Stacks raises $23M in funding
London-based startup Stacks Technologies B.V. says enterprise financial operations are in due of a much-needed injection of “agentic” automation after raising $23 million in Series A funding today. Today's round was led by the…
UK startups turn to AI instead of costly new hires
British entrepreneurship appears to be on the rise, with tens of thousands of new businesses popping up. The problem, for workers, is that these start-ups are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) and freelancers instead of taking on…
Ten Minutes With Mike Dunne, Co-Founder and CTO of Fusion Power Startup Inertia Enterprises
Mike Dunne, Chief Technology Officer, Inertia Enterprises Inertia Enterprises is a Livermore, Calif., startup developer founded in 2024 to commercialize laser-based inertial confinement fusion, following energy gain demonstrated for the first time…
AI Seed Trends: More Multimedia, Backend Automation, Agentic Security, And Yes, Robots
Every so often at Crunchbase News, we take it upon ourselves to review every sizable seed round of the past few months, seeing what trends arise. This time around, given the excitement around artificial intelligence, we honed in exclusively on…
Scrappy San Diego startup goes toe-to-toe with gene-sequencing giant Illumina
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Element Biosciences is going toe-to-toe with gene-sequencing giant Illumina, unveiling a device that can read DNA for half the price of the industry leader's technology. On Thursday, Element Biosciences…
The Modern Startup Stack: Launch App with FlutterFlow and Supabase
Early-stage startups do not fail because of bad ideas. They fail because execution takes too long and burn rates move faster than traction. Founders today are not looking for perfect architecture on day one. They are looking for speed, control, and…
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