Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware |

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable…

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 |

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out. Startup Battlefield 200applicationsofficially close in just two weeks. If…

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante |

10:24 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has…

Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B |

7:44 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in…

The 6 stages at Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market |

The biggest risk for founders and investors right nowisn’tmoving too slowly.It’sreacting too late to where the marketalreadyshifted. The new stages atTechCrunch Disrupt 2026help founders and…

Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M |

In Brief Posted: 11:45 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Early-stage venture firm A* on Tuesday announced a $450 million Fund III. The firm takes…

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO |

Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed aconfidential…

Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data |

Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan,…

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future |

In Brief Posted: 2:15 PM PDT · May 10, 2026 How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our…

Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway. |

India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult…