Grubhub parent company, Wonder, announced that it has acquired Claim, a restaurant rewards app. Founded in 2021, Claim offers cash-back rewards for local restaurants that…
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Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory |
10:00 AM pst · January 20, Corina Marshall spent 11 years working in retail digital marketing and realized the industry was behind the times. Specifically,…
Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup |
Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed…
This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027 |
Ryan Mitchell, the founder of a startup called Space Beyond, remembers looking at the night sky while camping at a state park and wondering what…
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM |
In Brief Posted: 2:42 PM ps · January 22, 2026 The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular…
Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI
Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a…
Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent triples valuation to $300M with $70M fundraise |
In a sign of the demand, or hype, for AI startups, Emergent, an Indian startup building an AI “vibe-coding” platform, has raised $70 million less…
Looking ahead to 2026: What’s next for Startup Battlefield 200 |
7:00 AM pst · January 19, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200is the flagship early-stage startup competition held atTechCrunch Disruptin San Francisco, spotlighting the world’s most promising…
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post |
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep…
AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp |
In Brief Posted: 4:49 pm ps · January 15, Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those…