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…
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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…
Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch |
8:00 AM PDT · May 31, 2026 According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the…
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups |
Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a…
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…