The 9 top biotech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield |

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the…

The 14 top agtech, food tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield |

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the…

As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern |

The future may be electric, but that future is being postponed. The European Commission, citing the need for flexibility, has softened its ambitious plan to…

These startups are building innovations that make life (and death) better |

Founders Gabriel Sanchez (Enspectra Health) and Tom Harries (Earth Funeral) share what it takes to build in heavily regulated industries where “move fast and break…

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power |

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers…

Here are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025 |

12:48 PM PST · November 26, 2025 Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were49 startups that raised…

OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren't sweating it |

With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features this week, which integrate into their existing chatbots to help users…

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit |

For all their pitches promising something new, AI startups share many of the same questions as startups in years past: How do they know when…

How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts  |

Startups have never been able to offer the same sizable salaries as big tech companies. Now with companies like Meta and OpenAI willing to pay…

Nvidia, Qualcomm join US, Indian VCs to help build India's next deep tech startups |

Nvidia and Qualcomm Ventures have joined a growing coalition of U.S. and Indian investors backing India’s deep tech startups. The group launched in September with…