Gideon Valkin's solo VC firm Andrena Ventures raised $12 million from backers including several VCs and entrepreneurs, and made its firs...
Monday, April 29, 2024
French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. That’s why the company has decided ...
Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps and services. So what is Gemini? How can you use...
Finally, something that both sides of the aisle can agree on: social media companies are too powerful. According to a survey by the Pew Rese...
OpenAI, maker of the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, has netted another news licensing deal in Europe, adding London’s Financial Times to a growin...
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment. The startup...
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf ...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech s...
What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universall...
Last week, the UK announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill takes the U.K.’s total support for this financia...
Saturday, April 27, 2024
It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. © 2024 Tech...
OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of comp...
Friday, April 26, 2024
Asheem Chandna says he was so impressed with founder Bipul Sinha's grit and tech, he led Rubrik's $40 million Series B in 2015. © 2...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday. This ruling means companies can’t require th...
Space and defense startup True Anomaly has laid off around 25% of its workforce and cancelled its summer internship program, TechCrunch has ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Swiggy plans to raise $1.25 billion in an initial public offering and has secured approval from its shareholders, the Indian food delivery a...
Meta’s Twitter/X rival Threads is growing at a stable pace. The social network now has more than 150 million monthly active users — up from ...
Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods coul...
Anduril Industries has taken another step forward in its quest to become the next great American prime, this time by beating out major defen...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Glance, which operates a lockscreen platform targetting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S. market. The Indian startup re...
The Senate passed a bill, included with the foreign aid package, that will ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year...
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class — the rugged off-road powerhouse that launched in 1979 and has since become a brutalist status symbol — has gone e...
Tesla’s been undergoing some major changes, and now we have a sense of why: the company says it is upending its product roadmap because of “...
Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo GenZ users, a new study by Mozi...
Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image generation model in par...
Monday, April 22, 2024
Rivian is offering discounts up to $5,000 on its EVs — and a year of free charging — to customers willing to trade in their gas-powered truc...
The health tech giant processes 15 billion health transactions a year, and handles health information for about half of all Americans. © 20...
Sunday, April 21, 2024
It’s not uncommon for people to screenshot dating profiles and send them to their friends and loved ones, either to get feedback or to let t...
TikTok Shop, TikTok’s social commerce marketplace, is launching a secondhand luxury category in the U.K., putting it in closer competition w...
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click Tech...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
"I think the travel industry has so many different examples of where AI can be used both for the customer and for the employees," ...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Ramp’s big raise and valuation jump, Mercury’s move into personal banking, Klarna...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Alison Cohen, profiled as part of TechCrunch's series on women in AI, is a senior AI projects manager at Mila, a Quebec-based AI researc...
As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed b...
Friday, April 19, 2024
Apple has removed the Meta-owned end-to-end encrypted messaging app WhatsApp from its App Store in China following a government order citing...
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting dr...
CRED has received the in-principle approval for payment aggregator license in a boost to the Indian fintech startup that could help it bette...
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence has been in the crosshairs of governments concerned about how it might be misused for fraud, disinformation and othe...
UK-based small launch developer Orbex got another boost from Scotland’s national bank and other investors as it gears up for its first orbit...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of Indian news aggregator app Dailyhunt, has acquired the popular digital newsstand firm Magzter, the two ...
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in an order on Tuesday that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp previously k...
Waymo can operate on San Francisco freeways without a human driver, but the company is still only testing on freeways with a human driver in...
Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform. The platform is adding a logo...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the governing body overseeing the country’s widely used Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ...
As the world waits for $65 billion payments tech giant Stripe to go public, a wave of smaller startups continues to roll into the market to ...
Monday, April 15, 2024
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round ...
Meta-owned social network Threads is finally testing a “Recent” filter to sort search results by the latest. Instagram head Adam Mosseri not...
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were la...
OpenAI is expanding to Japan, with the opening of a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese lan...
Social media startup ShareChat’s valuation has cratered below $2 billion from nearly $5 billion in a new funding round, a source familiar wi...
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Pula, an insurtech based in Kenya, has since 2015 been keen on enhancing the access to agricultural insurance by small-holder farmers across...
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click Tech...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at how two fintech companies serving the underserved are faring, and more! To get a ...
The broad enthusiasm for generative AI is reflected in the investments in GenAI efforts targeting healthcare. But is healthcare-focused gene...
Saturday, April 13, 2024
In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own? From big tech firms to startups, AI makers ar...
Windfall Bio sells methane-eating microbes to companies to help them reduce their carbon footprint in the short-term. © 2024 TechCrunch. Al...
Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the contex...
Spyware makers are reportedly working on targeting individuals with stealthy data-stealing malware using online banner ads. © 2024 TechCrun...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Last year, Elon Musk-owned social network X rolled out a feature for paid users to hide their checkmarks from others. Now, the company is se...
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for...
The 9-year-old Hinge Health offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and was last valued at $6.2 billion ...
Each company will design and build a satellite capable of rendezvousing with other spacecraft in orbit at close proximity, as well as comman...
If the decisions made by corporate boards of directors can indicate where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s board just made an intere...
A few weeks after defeating Elon Musk’s attempt to silence it in court, anti-hate research nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware ...
By adding Standard Notes to its portfolio of apps, Proton will deepen its reach with an engaged community of pro-privacy users. © 2024 Tech...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Truecaller has launched a web version of its eponymous caller ID application that brings a range of features including SMS and chat mirrorin...
Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants. © 2024 ...
TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million growth funding round fro...
Indian ride-hailing giant Ola is shutting down its operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, six years after expanding to internation...
Monday, April 8, 2024
Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisi...
Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division. It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scient...
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October over controvers...
Avendus, India’s leading investment bank for venture deals, is looking to raise about $300 million for its private equity unit, according to...
Sunday, April 7, 2024
AI playlists will initially become available to users on Android and iOS devices in the U.K. and Australia and will be iterated on in the mo...
The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches. Mechanical keyboards quickly went from a niche product to mainstream during...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made it into Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort, h...
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor, passed away last month a...
Friday, April 5, 2024
Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more pai...
When IVP recently announced the closing of its 18th fund, I called Eric Liaw, a longtime general partner with the growth-stage firm, to ask ...
Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat feature dubbed “solar system” was adding to teens’ anxiety, the compa...
Robovision has raised $42M to industrialize deep learning tools and make them more accessible to businesses that are not tech companies at t...
Get ready for an electrifying showdown as the “So You Think You Can Pitch” startup pitch competition at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is set t...
The European Union and United States put out a joint statement Friday affirming a desire to increase cooperation over artificial intelligenc...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
SingleInterface, a SaaS startup offering tools to offline businesses to grow their revenues by leveraging the web, has raised $30 million in...
For every tech success story, there are countless projects that slam headlong into the brick wall of reality. Apple’s electric vehicle ambit...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
BlaBlaCar is an iconic name in the French startup ecosystem. The carpooling and bus ticketing company has been around for so long that it’s ...
The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A secur...
Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure....
For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer...
Monday, April 1, 2024
Onego Bio claims Bioalbumen is “bioidentical” to ovalbumin, which is the major protein in chicken egg white. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...
Tucked inside Canoo’s 2023 earnings report is a nugget regarding the use of CEO Tony Aquila’s private jet — just one of many expenses that i...
As TikTok continues to face increased pressure in the U.S. and the U.K., the company is signaling its commitment to fostering educational co...
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has been out for only a few days, yet it’s already obvious that we’ll be talking about it for years to come — it’s...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
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Microsoft will introduce a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription service that excludes Teams, unbundling a suite followin...
