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Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders
This new fund will back founders building enterprise technology in the United States. Meridian is agnostic, co-founder...
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month are working on problems in the physical world,...
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Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags
Supertone, a Seoul-based speech AI company, released Supertonic v3, its third-generation on-device text-to-speech model...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger
SpaceXAI has experienced significant staff attrition with over 50 employees leaving since its February merger, raising...
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Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding from investors including a16z's scout fund and Sequoia Scout...
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What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new startup, funded with $650 million, aims to build a self-improving AI system capable of autonomous...
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally,...
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Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026
Cerebras raised $5.5B in funding and went public in what is being called the first major tech IPO of 2026, with its...
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Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures is investing $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, an AI-powered autonomous bookkeeping service...
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Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Rivian's spinoff company Mind has raised $400M in funding to scale deployment of its AI-powered industrial robots in...
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Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI
Nvidia partners with British AI startup Ineffable Intelligence to build model training infrastructure for...
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Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites
Xpanner, a startup that automates construction work by retrofitting equipment with robotics and physical AI technology,...
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Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline...
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Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has raised $23M in funding to supply creative multimodal data including photos, videos, and 3D content to AI...
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April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and...
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Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startup Clio has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating strong customer adoption in...
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Cerebras Sees Sizzling Demand For IPO Shares
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is going public on the Nasdaq after years of private fundraising and previously...
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Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves
Tencent plans to significantly increase AI infrastructure spending in the second half of 2026, supported by improved...
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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO
Red Hat's CEO highlights that enterprises are struggling to balance AI deployment ambitions with decades of accumulated...
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