ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Wood told TechCrunch. “We feel pretty…
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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people |
There’s a version of a tech conference where you fly somewhere expensive, sit through panels, collect business cards you’ll never follow up on, and fly…
Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra — and it’s actually good |
When was the last time you were actually excited about email? If you’re older, probably back in 2004, when Gmail was rolling out its first…
Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world |
Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in-person payments. The move deepens its rivalry with…
This Khosla-backed autonomous pod startup just raised $170M — now it's aiming for more |
In Brief Posted: 10:46 AM PDT · April 15, 2026 Glydways, a San Francisco-based startup developing personal autonomous pods designed to operate on dedicated 2-meter-wide…
is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it |
TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just…
is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it |
TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just…
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless |
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and demo live, in front of…
VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups |
It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo…
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident |
In Brief Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · April 1, 2026 Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying…