Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the…
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The 14 top agtech, food tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield |
Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the…
Israel’s famed VC Jon Medved, diagnosed with ALS, backed the tech that will improve his life |
Years ago, when venture capitalist Jon Medved took an interest in backing various health tech startups, he had no idea that one day, he would…
Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation |
Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday that he had launched a new startup — the worst-kept secret in the tech world — though…
Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2 |
4:18 PM PST · December 11, 2025 Google released on Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed…
Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage |
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side hustle called Backstage. Backstage is an open source project…
Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund |
Tiger Global, the investor that spurred the VC bull market of 2020-2021, is reportedly raising a fresh $2.2 billion fund. The firm sent a letter…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed |
In Brief Posted: 4:00 AM PST · December 2, 2025 Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire…
AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal |
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PST · November 18, 2025 AI data center provider Lambda announced Tuesday it raised $1.5 billion in a round led…
Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund |
Chris Sacca’s venture firmLowercarbonCapital is raising a second fund to back nuclearfusion energy hopefuls, the VC said at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit onThursday,as reported…