When Justin Kosmides co-founded Bloom in 2023, his goal was to create a savior for the mobility industry. He had seen many e-bike and e-scooter…
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6 days to Disrupt 2026: Save on your pass before doors open |
7:00 AM PDT · October 7, 2026 In six days, 10,000+ people from across the global startup and tech ecosystem will come together at San…
Another personal AI assistant has launched — Meet Tab, which emerged from stealth with a $300M valuation |
6:45 AM PDT · October 7, 2026 A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from…
OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to Disrupt 2026 |
7:30 AM PDT · October 7, 2026 OpenAI just made one of its biggest bets yet on what comes after the chatbot. Now, the person…
The full lineup of interactive roundtables at Disrupt 2026 |
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is seven days away, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13-15 for…
Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product |
Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, announced on Tuesday that it raised a total of $25 million in funding, including…
Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet |
When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy.…
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO |
In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026 Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation,…
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy |
From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal assistant a must-have product. Hark,…
Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors |
Until recently, venture capitalists largely steered clear of defense startups. Investments in the sector were viewed as morally controversial, and the process of securing government…