Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band |

Luffu, a new startup from Fitbit’s co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, on Tuesday launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band designed to…

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders |

On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. No settlement was made. No money changed hands. Not even lawyers’ fees,…

Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’ |

Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis of the 11-year-old San Francisco firm is to back founders building…

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…

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…

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…

‘If this isn’t addiction, I don’t know what is’: Light’s founders get real about screen time

With theLight Phone,Kaiwei TangandJoe Hollierhave spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players…

Applications close in 48 hours — here’s everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield |

The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and…

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish |

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for…

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked |

Customer support and service are among the hottest sectors in voice AI right now. But building a product that sounds human and responds without noticeable…