India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand |

As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu has seized the boom, raising $93 million…

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months |

2:39 PM PDT · August 11, 2026 Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its…

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI |

River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General…

Exclusive: Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device |

In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse to unleash enormous amounts of energy. But…

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym |

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest…

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips |

Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require cooling systems. And, inevitably, entrepreneurs are…

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs |

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross? The area is so hot…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide |

In Brief Posted: 12:41 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working…

Today’s the last day to get up to $400 off your Disrupt 2026 ticket |

Let’scut to the chase:Starting today, you can take anadditional$100 off of our current $300 discount for your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass,…

Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at Disrupt 2026 |

7:30 AM PDT · August 7, 2026 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15, but some of the…