Slate crosses 150,000 reservations despite waning EV truck enthusiasm |

12:05 PM PST · December 16, 2025 Slate Auto, the electric truck startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has now collected more than 150,000 refundable reservations…

Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill starting in 2027 |

Food waste startup Mill said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with Amazon to deploy its bins in Whole Foods produce departments across the…

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors |

Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for Uber Eats and later the COO of…

Canadian peer-to-Peer clothing rental company Rax is expanding to the U.S. | TechCrunch

Marley Allesstartedout inaccounting. She thought that her dream was to work at a big company. “And then once Igotthere, I was like ‘oh, that’s it,”…

India’s Digantara raises $50M for space-based missile defence tech | TechCrunch

Digantara, an Indian space surveillance startup, has raised $50 million in a new funding round as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile tracking,…

India’s Spinny lines up $160M funding to acquire GoMechanic, sources say |

Spinny, an Indian online marketplace for used cars, is raising around $160 million as it moves to acquire car services startup GoMechanic, TechCrunch has learned.…

Exclusive: Thea Energy previews Helios, its pixel-inspired fusion power plant |

Fusion power has the potential to rewrite trillion-dollar energy markets, but first, startups have to prove their designs will work and won’t be too costly.…

Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages |

1:37 PM PST · December 14, 2025 Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem |

AI lets anyone create videos, but many AI video creation tools lack support for audio. Mirelo is building AI that adds soundtracks to match the…

First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion that helps you build habits |

In a world that’s rapidly filling up with AI-generated content, a startup called First Voyage wants to help people avoid all the AI slop blasted…