The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon and Parloa trying to infuse AI into automating customer calls, chat…
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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,…
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders |
Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The…
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks |
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently…
Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia |
10:02 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their…
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? |
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the…
Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient |
As rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns put Asia’s water-intensive rice farming under pressure, Mitti Labs, a New York- and Bengaluru-headquartered climate-tech startup, has raised…
How to get the best hotel deals for Disrupt 2026 |
Congrats,you’reall set forTechCrunch Disrupt 2026!Or,you might still be on the fence and wondering about youraccommodations. Either way, the reality is San Francisco can be an…