1:57 PM PDT · October 21, 2026 Year-old startup Flapping Airplanes has wowed Silicon Valley with an impressive founding team and a mission to find…
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Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 11:51 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round,…
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C |
In Brief Posted: 10:18 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written…
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software |
When Alex Baikovitz co-founded Mach9 Robotics in 2021, his goal was to build a better, faster, and cheaper way for civil engineers to do visual…
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei |
In Brief Posted: 10:55 AM PDT · October 20, 2026 Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. The former Google CEO is reported…
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago |
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO that acted as a lifestyle concierge…
AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launch |
Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B funding round co-led by…
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool |
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In…
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce |
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · October 18, 2026 After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will…
Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics |
Even Healthcare has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, as the Indian startup seeks to change how hospitals in the…