Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media? |

In Brief Posted: 1:39 PM ps · January 4, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social…

How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor’s CEO

Three-year-old startupMercorhas become a$10 billionmiddlemanin AI’s data gold rush. The company connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with former employees of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey,…

The 16 top logistics, manufacturing, materials 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 of them, the…

Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable |

Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and…

The top 6 media/entertainment startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield |

7:00 AM pst · January 1, Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top…

‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential |

Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies showthat the vast majority of successful startups had…

Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z

Fizzisbetting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into…

Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon talk about building engaged audiences at Disrupt |

TadeOyerindeand Teddy Solomon know a few things about building communities that last. Afterall, Oyerinde is the founder and chancellor of the online school Campus, while…

The 10 top government, legal 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 of them, the…

The dumbest things that happened in tech this year |

The tech industry moves so fast that it’s hard to keep up with just how much has happened this year. We’ve watched as the tech…