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Silicon Valley founders' hottest funding source: the Bank of Best Friends
Katherine Naylor Pullman started Our Third Place, a networking group for women in media, as a part-time side project. It began four years ago with monthly, then weekly, dinners. Women in Chicago and Los Angeles reached out, wanting to host their…
The full Disrupt Stage lineup
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem. Across three days, from October 13 to 15, at Moscone West in San Francisco, the Disrupt Stage will bring…
Operations, finance and tech leadership moves across the market
Jason Wright has joined the venture-backed maker of rocket engines and other in-space propulsion systems as president, a role he brings 25 years of experience to. Wright's responsibilities at include day-to-day management of operations across the…
Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter since Q2…
Nvidia backs startup Reactor as buzz grows for world models
World models are capturing the tech industry's attention and investment dollars, amid growing expectations that AI will soon move beyond our screens and into the physical world of cars, robots, and other objects. A slew of new startups are…
Who's on Trump's 'Super Intelligence Force'? Picks Signal His Priorities
President Donald Trump has announced who will form his Super Intelligence Force (SIF), the team that's been “ tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super…
Cambridge and London Life Sciences Showcase returns during JPM Healthcare Week 2027
o2h co-discovery has announced that the Cambridge × London Life Sciences Showcase will return for its second edition during J.P. Morgan Healthcare Week 2027 in San Francisco. The event brings together two of the UK's leading life sciences…
Can The EU Make Clothes As Cheap As Asia? With Automation, This Startup Says Yes
Danish startup Rodinia Generation said it has secured 4 million euros ($4.5 million) to scale its on-demand manufacturing pilot, which uses automation to produce clothes in Europe at the same cost as Asia. The company said in a statement on Monday…
How Hyperliquid defied crypto's DAT death spiral-and built the industry's only flourishing digital asset treasury
Hyperliquid is one of the buzziest blockchains in crypto. Known for its perpetual futures trading platform, it has also achieved a rare feat: building a digital asset treasury, or DAT, that has delivered positive returns for its shareholders. DATs…
A Sale of Kurt Geiger's Concession Business Would Reshape the Playing Field for Footwear Designers
Steve Madden, which bought Kurt Geiger for $360 million in 2025, has reportedly hired advisors at Solomon Partners to sell off the company's prominent luxury footwear concessions business. According to a new report from Sky News in the U.K., Madden…
The hottest trip for Silicon Valley investors? Robot factories in China
Last year, when Ryan Cunningham, a Silicon Valley investor, floated a trip to China in a WhatsApp group of robotics investors, the response was lukewarm. One person jokingly asked if he could smuggle a humanoid robot home. This year, the jokes have…
OpenAI's safety firings raise awkward questions
Good morning, senior AI reporter Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Allie. Last week, OpenAI announced it had alerted more than 100 third-party organizations of “misaligned agent activity,” including one in which its agents targeted…
Golden Goose Names New Chief Consumer Officer
MILAN — Golden Goose has named Giorgio Belloli its new chief consumer officer. A Burberry and Farfetch alum, Belloli is tasked with leading global market and channel development, defining the strategic direction and governance models to…
Europe's Soaring Gas Bill Is Sending Utilities Back To Coal
Europe's energy crisis isn't over. Gas prices remain punishingly high across the continent as Europeans stare down the barrel of a long winter. In response to back-to-back-to-back energy crises stemming from Europe's continued reliance on imported…
While OpenAI and Anthropic battle over data privacy, more companies look to open models and 'sovereign AI'
Data privacy has emerged as a key consideration for companies when choosing an AI vendor, amid fears that frontier AI companies, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, may be quietly using their customers' intellectual property to improve their models. Some…
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