With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox |

When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told me earlier this month that she was finally ready to unveil Dazzle, the personal AI assistant that raised…

Exclusive: Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M |

Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights…

Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round |

Vishal Sankhla led product at digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year. In late 2023, the seasoned engineering executive, who…

MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant |

Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one. On Monday, they announced that their AI-powered…

Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay talk AI at Disrupt 2026 |

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect…

CFS’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley join Disrupt 2026 |

For decades, commercial fusion power has seemed perpetually out of reach. Now two companies are building toward something much more concrete: putting fusion-generated electricity on…

Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026 |

Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting…

Disrupt 2026 exhibitor program extended until Oct 2 |

This is the last week and your final opportunity to book your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table. Book your exhibit table by this Friday, October…

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it |

When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR…

Ricursive Intelligence’s co-founders join Disrupt 2026 |

AI needs increasingly powerful chips. But designing those chips is itself a slow, complex process. What happens when AI starts doing some of that work,…