In Brief Posted: 12:26 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A…
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy |
In Brief Posted: 8:33 AM PDT · May 16, 2026 OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product…
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month |
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on…
The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question:can we trust the people…
Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders |
Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to…
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware |
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable…
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 |
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out. Startup Battlefield 200applicationsofficially close in just two weeks. If…
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante |
10:24 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has…
Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B |
7:44 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in…
The 6 stages at Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market |
The biggest risk for founders and investors right nowisn’tmoving too slowly.It’sreacting too late to where the marketalreadyshifted. The new stages atTechCrunch Disrupt 2026help founders and…