Last 24 hours to book an exhibit table at Disrupt 2026 |

Exhibit bookings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 close in less than 24 hours. From October 13-15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at…

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents. |

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter —…

Less than 24 hours to apply for a Side Event at Founder Summit 2026 |

7:00 AM PDT · October 2, 2026 The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side…

Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition |

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on Wednesday that he fired VC Chris Degnan…

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation |

In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50…

A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body

Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Healthraised $700 millionto build a business around scanning your body, butit’snot the only company centering its roadmap around a new…

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B |

In Brief Posted: 11:23 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion…

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for |

Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era of enterprise AI experimentation is ending and…

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents |

When Stephan Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing…

Exclusive: Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars |

Charter Space, a finalist in last year’s TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, has raised a $5 million seed round to keep growing its budding space insurance business.…