Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private…
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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries |
Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat…
Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures |
Danielle Egan and Athena Leong know how to have fun. Between the two of them, they’ve organized a citywide scavenger hunt in San Francisco and…
Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models |
As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a handful of college friends trying to make…
Take an extra $100 off your Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only! |
Let’scut to the chase:Starting today, you can take anadditional$100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on…
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B |
In Brief Posted: 4:30 AM PDT · August 4, 2026 In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that…
Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate |
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San…
Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t. |
For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends…
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why |
A new report from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley’s VC-backed founders commit fraud —…
Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI |
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI,OpenAI CEOSam Altman saysmaybe it’stime for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments camejust days after…