Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment |

In Brief Posted: 2:00 PM PDT · April 23, 2026 Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it…

Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident |

The story of embattled compliance startup Delve keeps hitting twists and turns. TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security…

Fusion doesn’t have a normal startup timeline, and investors are fine with that

Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but hasthe sciencefinallycaughtup? Private investment in fusion companiessurged from$10 billionto$15billionin just months, and the money is…

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now? |

Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a pitch. Dropbox demoed to a…

AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter. |

AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins — the molecules that…

Cathie Wood’s ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI  |

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…

SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B |

3:58 PM PDT · April 21, 2026 SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,”…

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO |

In Brief Posted: 12:19 PM PDT · April 18, 2026 Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware…

From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product |

12:50 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 For a successful deep tech startup, the laboratory breakthrough is only the first step. To spin out an…

VTT-originated startup Proteins.1 launches to bring PCR-like amplification and simplicity to omics

/PRNewswire/ — New Finnish deep-tech company aims to make ultra-early disease detection possible through single-molecule protein amplification, enabling the identification of molecular warning signals long…