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Seedcamp Raises $320M to Expand US Footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund, which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
WhatsApp Names New Chief, Meta Invests $900M in CRED
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
Google DeepMind and A24 Partner on AI Filmmaking Tools
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
SpaceX IPO Raises $85.7 Billion
SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.
SpaceX IPO: Key Details and Implications
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
SpaceX Share Pricing Announced: $135 per Share
Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.
Theker Secures $85M for Versatile Factory Robots
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
SpaceX's AI-Driven Space Data Center Plans Boost IPO
Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.
Ramp's $750M Raise Boosts Valuation to $44B with AI Focus
Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup.
Carvana Partners with Slate Auto for New Car Sales
Carvana was granted a warrant to buy shares in Slate last year, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is heavily invested in both companies.
Defense Tech Startups: Who Will Survive the Funding Boom?
Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract […]
Quick Commerce Startup FirstClub Valuation Doubles to $255M
The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch.
AI Trading Assistant: Vibe-Trading by HKUDS
"Vibe-Trading: Your Personal Trading Agent"
SpaceX Warns of Potential Equity Dilution for Investors
The company added a warning to prospective investors that a major dilution could be in the cards after it goes public.
Ex-Meta CTO Launches $250M Climate Fund with Gigascale Capital
Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world's energy and material shortages.
AI-Powered Crowdfunding: Rewards for Doubters if Projects Fail
AI Powered Crowdfunding: Ensuring Success with Rerward Compensation for Projects unable to meet expectations AI technology can transform crowdfunding platforms,…
Triomics Secures $22M for AI in Oncology
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.
WeRoad Secures $58M for US Expansion, Led by Airbnb
WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to roughly $100 million and will finance WeRoad’s push into the U.S., beginning with Austin. The new investment reflects a […]
Congress Stock Trade Tracker: AI-Powered Transparency Tool
Unveiling the Congress Stock Trade Tracker: AI Powered Solution for Transparency The Congress Stock Trade Tracker leverages advanced artificial intelligence to …
Deep Fission's IPO: Nuclear Startup's Public Bid Raises Questions
Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.
SolarSquare Aims to Raise $60M in India's Hot Solar Market
SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.
SpaceX's S-1 Filing: Mars Colony and $28T Market
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American […]
FinceptTerminal: Advanced Finance Analytics & Investment Tools
FinceptTerminal is a modern finance application offering advanced market analytics, investment research, and economic data tools, designed for interactive exploration and data-driven decision-making in a user-friendly environment.
Patina Raises $2M to Disrupt Fragrance Industry with AI
Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO: Who Benefits Most?
Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk.
Lucra Raises $20M for eSports Loyalty Platform Without AI Hype
Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started — especially when ARK had already been burned by a company operating in the same space.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie […]
Sam Altman's OpenAI Offer to YC Startups
Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.
SpaceX IPO Filing: AI Bets, Starship Dreams, and Elon Musk's Vision
SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.
General Catalyst's VC Tweet Sparks Andreessen's Response
Compulsive X user Marc Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.
Mind Robotics Secures $400M in Latest Funding Round
Mind Robotics, which was first revealed in late 2025, has now raised more than $1 billion to date.
MerryDiv: Track Dividends Across All Brokerage Accounts
Title: Optimize Your Dividend Tracking with MerryDiv Simplify Dividend Management with MerryDiv Efficiently tracking dividends across multiple brokerage account…
Exaforce Secures $125M for Real-Time AI Cybersecurity
As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
Anthropic Warns Against Unauthorized Share Platforms
The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.
F1 Paddock: New Hub for Startup Deals and Investments
F1 Grands Prix have emerged as a new place to see and be seen if you are a founder or investor.
Uber's AI Push: Beyond Rides, Into Autonomous Vehicles
The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a distribution platform — but the consumer-facing bet may be just as important.
21 European AI Startups to Watch Beyond Lovable and Mistral
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
Anthropic's Creative Industry Strategy: 9 Connectors for Professional
The announcement yesterday was genuinely significant and i don't think most people outside the creative industry understand why. Anthropic released 9 connectors that let claude directly control professional creative software through mcp which means actually execute actions inside them the full list contains adobe creative cloud (50+ apps including photoshop, premiere, illustrator), blender (full python api access for 3d modeling), autodesk fusion , ableton, splice , affinity by canva , sketchup , resolume (), and claude design. Anthropic also became a blender development fund patron at $280k+/yr and is partnering with risd, ringling college, and goldsmiths university on curriculum development around these tools. this isn't a press release play, there's institutional investment behind it the strategic read is interesting because this positions claude very differently from chatgpt in the creative space. Openai went the route of building creative capabilities natively inside chatgpt with images 2.0 and previously sora. Anthropic is going the connector route where claude doesn't replace or replicate the creative tools, it becomes the intelligence layer that works inside them. Both strategies have merit but they serve fundamentally different users the gap that still exists and i think matters for the broader market is that these connectors serve professionals who already know photoshop and blender and fusion. The consumer creative market where people need face swaps, lip syncs, talking photos, style transfers, none of that is covered by these connectors, that layer is being served by consolidated platforms like magic hour, higgsfield, domoai, and canva's expanding ai features. It's a completely different market but the two layers increasingly feed into each other as professional assets flow into social content pipelines. the question is whether anthropic eventually builds connectors for these consumer creative platforms too or whether the gap between professional creative tools with ai copilots and consumer creative platforms with bundled capabilities remains a split in the market what do you think this means for the creative tool landscape over the next 12-18 months?
Parallel Web Systems Valued at $2B After $100M Raise
The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 million.
Kompas VC: Investing in Physical World Startups Amid Geopolitical Turm
Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused on the physical world.
Match Group Invests $100M in Gay Cruising App Sniffies
The app is Match Group's newest attempt to get mobile users excited about online romance again.
Would Retail Investors Trust AI for Institutional-Grade Equity Researc
I'm building a tool that tries to close the gap between how institutions analyze stocks and what's available to regular investors. The idea: you give it a company (or it surfaces one from a screen), and it does the full research cycle, reads the 10-K including the footnotes, reviews earnings call transcripts, evaluates management quality, competitive position, valuation and produces an actual research report with a buy/hold/pass recommendation. Not a signal. A report with reasoning you can read and disagree with. If something changes (earnings miss, CEO leaves, competitor announcement), it flags you and re-evaluates the thesis. Before I build more, I'm trying to understand if this solves a real problem. Three honest questions: 1. What do you actually use today to research and pick individual stocks? 2. What would it take for you to trust an AI's analysis enough to act on it? 3. Would you pay for something like this? If yes, roughly how much per month would feel fair? No landing page, nothing to sign up for. Just trying to learn before I build the wrong thing.
Skye's AI Home Screen App for iPhone Gains Investor Interest
Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more AI-aware iPhone.
Steve Ballmer's Scathing Letter to Fraudulent Founder
Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as an investor.
Lachy Groom Backs India's Pronto at $200M Valuation
This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup's valuation in a matter of weeks.